In the future in Chinese
in the future · HSK 3
以后
- 以 with
- 后 after
下课以后我们去打球吧。 Let's go play ball after class.
Other ways to say in the future
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How do you say in the future in Chinese?
In the future in Chinese is 以后 (yǐ hòu). You can also say 将来 (jiāng lái), 今后 (jīn hòu), 日后 (rì hòu), 往后 (wǎng hòu).
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.