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去年 qùnián — last year

qùnián (fourth tone, falling)qu4nian2

last year

HSK 2· HSK 1–4 (classic)noun
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Meanings

  1. last year

    The year before this one. Like every Chinese time word it stands before the verb — 去年我去了中国 — and never at the end of the sentence.

    noun

Character breakdown

  • 年
    nián (second tone, rising)

    year; age, years of a person’s life; the annual harvest (original sense)

    6 strokesRadical 干

Example sentences

  • 去年我在中国学习汉语。去年我在中國學習漢語。Qùnián (fourth tone, falling) wǒ (third tone, dipping) zài (fourth tone, falling) Zhōngguó (first tone, high and level) xuéxí (second tone, rising) Hànyǔ. (fourth tone, falling)···

    Last year I studied Chinese in China.

  • 他是去年来的。他是去年來的。Tā (first tone, high and level) shì (fourth tone, falling) qùnián (fourth tone, falling) lái (second tone, rising) de. (neutral tone)···

    It was last year that he came.

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