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失去

shī qù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

失去 (shī qù) means "to lose". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 失去 means

1. to lose

The characters in 失去

• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 去qùto go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last

Example sentences

• 他失去控制了。
  He lost control.
• 我不想失去你。
  I don't want to lose you.
• 我们失去了它。
  We lost it.
• 我对你失去信心
  I've lost faith in you.
• 我要失去它了。
  I'm going to miss that.
• 我失去了控制。
  I'm losing my grip.

Words starting with 失去

• 失去后劲shī qù hòu jìnto peter out; to lose momentum; to lose steam

Where 失去 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Urgency, Loss & Destruction (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 shī qù correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.