去年 qùnián — last year
qùnián (fourth tone, falling)qu4nian2
last year
HSK 2· HSK 1–6 (classic)Level 1· 2021 three-band, nine-level proficiency standardnoun
Meanings
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
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.
Similar words
Words containing 年
- 年nián (second tone, rising)year
- 今年jīn (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)this year
- 年轻年輕niánqīng (second tone, rising)young
- 年代nián (second tone, rising) dài (fourth tone, falling)a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)
- 年龄年齡nián (second tone, rising) líng (second tone, rising)(a person's) age
- 年级年級niánjí (second tone, rising)year, grade (at school)
- 明年míng (second tone, rising) nián (second tone, rising)next year
- 当年當年dāng (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)in those days
- 新年xīn (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)New Year
- 年纪年紀nián (second tone, rising) jì (fourth tone, falling)age
- 青年qīng (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)youth
- 周年週年zhōu (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)anniversary
- 年度nián (second tone, rising) dù (fourth tone, falling)year (e.g. school year
- 少年shào (fourth tone, falling) nián (second tone, rising)early youth
- 青少年qīng (first tone, high and level) shào (fourth tone, falling) nián (second tone, rising)adolescent
- 多年duō (first tone, high and level) nián (second tone, rising)many years
- 童年tóng (second tone, rising) nián (second tone, rising)childhood