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title: "只要…就… in Chinese Grammar: As long as …, …, With Examples"
description: "只要…就…: as long as …, …. A sufficient condition. 4 real lines from stories, each word explained."
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# 只要…就…

As long as …, …

A sufficient condition.

## In stories

2015年，大家一边看春晚，一边用微信拿红包：**只要拿起手机摇一摇，就可能拿到钱**。

[春晚是什么？ · What is the Spring Festival Gala (春晚)?](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/what-is-the-spring-festival-gala-chunwan#library-word-285-301) HSK 3

《论语》里说，不管是谁，**只要带一点肉干来当学费，就可以做他的学生**。

[孔子是谁？ · Who was Confucius?](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/who-was-confucius#library-word-473-493) HSK 4

家里的微信群里，**只要有人发出一个红包，大家就马上来**“抢”。

[为什么中国人过年要给红包？ · Why do Chinese people give red envelopes?](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/why-do-chinese-people-give-red-envelopes#library-word-336-353) HSK 4

山顶上有如来佛祖贴的一张纸，你**只要把它揭下来，我就能出来了**。”

[救出悟空 · Freed from the Mountain](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/freed-from-the-mountain-journey-to-the-west-intermediate-chinese-10#library-word-277-291) HSK 5

[Read 春晚是什么？](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/what-is-the-spring-festival-gala-chunwan#library-word-285-301)

## More patterns

- [一…就… as soon as …, …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/yi-jiu)
- [一…，…就… as soon as …, …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/yi-comma-jiu)
- [如果/要是…就… if …, then …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/ruguo-jiu)
- [快(要)…了 about to …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/kuai-le)
- [还没…，…就… before … (had even happened), … already](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/haimei-jiu)
- [即使/就算/哪怕…也… even if …, still …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/jishi-ye)

## What does 只要…就… mean in Chinese?

As long as …, …. A sufficient condition.

## How common is 只要…就…?

It comes up in 11 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.

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