Add to Chrome

Chinese grammar

该…了

It’s time to …

该…了: it is time for something to happen.

In stories

  1. 玉皇大帝已经坐了那么多年，也该换我坐坐了。

    五行山下 · Under the Five-Element Mountain HSK 5

  2. “芒种”提醒人们，该抓紧时间种地了。

    二十四节气是什么？ · What are the 24 solar terms? HSK 6

  3. 现在该我了！”

    紧箍咒 · The Tightening Spell HSK 3

Read 五行山下

What does 该…了 mean in Chinese?

It’s time to …. 该…了: it is time for something to happen.

How common is 该…了?

It comes up in 3 readings of the 392 stories and articles in our free Library.

Does it correct my mistakes?

No. It shows which patterns a text uses and what each one does; it doesn’t mark errors. Paste a sentence you wrote to see whether it uses the pattern you meant.

More free tools

Patterns found by our own parser; lines from our free Library.