Be about to in Chinese
be about to · HSK 4
将要
- 将 will
- 要 to want
火车将要进站了。 The train is about to pull into the station.
More words with 将 or 要
How do you say be about to in Chinese?
Be about to in Chinese is 将要 (jiāng yào).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.