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似的

shì de

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

似的 (shì de) means "as if (particle after noun/verb)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 似的 means

1. seems as if
2. rather like
3. Taiwan pr. sì de

The characters in 似的

• 似sìto seem; to appear; to resemble
• 的deof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)…

Example sentences

• 死了就像做梦似的。
  Death is like dreaming.
• 他睡得像个宝贝似的。
  Tā shuì de xiàng ge bǎobèi shìde.
  He sleeps like a baby.
• 我饿得跟饿虎扑羊似的。
  I'm as hungry as a horse.
• 不要哭得像个孩子似的。
  Don't cry like a child!
• 你看起来好像饿了似的。
  You look like you're hungry.
• 我也听过一个类似的故事。
  Wǒ yě tīng guo yī gè lèisì de gùshi.
  I also heard a similar story.

Words containing 似的

• 飞也似的fēi yě shì delit. as if flying; very fast

Sounds the same

Read shì de, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 是的yes, that's right; variant of 似的
• 似地(used to form an adverbial phrase X + 似地; Taiwan pr. sì de

Where 似的 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Imitation, Vagueness & Pronoun (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shì de correctly.
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