Potatoes aren't apples.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
马铃薯
potato
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
potato
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 马铃薯 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 马铃薯 appears in 14 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'll boil the potatoes for you.
Onions cook more quickly than potatoes.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 马铃薯.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 马铃薯.
Directly before
- 煮马铃薯2
- 比马铃薯1
- 一份马铃薯1
- 把马铃薯1
- 一块马铃薯1
Directly after
- 马铃薯是2
- 马铃薯快熟1
- 马铃薯的1
- 马铃薯和1
- 马铃薯在1
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 马铃薯
What does 马铃薯 mean in Chinese?
马铃薯 (mǎlíngshǔ) means potato.
How do you pronounce 马铃薯?
马铃薯 is pronounced mǎlíngshǔ.
Is 马铃薯 an HSK word?
马铃薯 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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