I was in Canada then.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
那时
then
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
then
02
at that time
03
in those days
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 那时 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 那时 appears in 56 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I was a baby in those days.
I was watching TV then.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 那时.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 那时.
Directly before
- 我那时8
- 他那时4
- 你那时3
- 在那时3
- 我们那时3
Directly after
- 那时我7
- 那时是5
- 那时的4
- 那时在3
- 那时她3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 那时
What does 那时 mean in Chinese?
那时 (nàshí) means then.
How do you pronounce 那时?
那时 is pronounced nàshí.
Is 那时 an HSK word?
那时 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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