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打喷嚏

dǎ pēn tì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 打噴嚏

打喷嚏 (dǎ pēn tì) means "to sneeze". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 打喷嚏 means

1. to sneeze

The characters in 打喷嚏

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 喷pēnto spout; to spurt; to spray; to puff; (slang) to criticize scathingly (esp. online)
• 嚏tìsneeze

Example sentences

• 我打喷嚏了。
  Wǒ dǎpēntì le.
  I am sneezing.
• 我止不住打喷嚏。
  I can't stop sneezing.
• 为什么你们在打喷嚏？
  Wèishénme nǐmen zài dǎpēntì?
  Why are you sneezing?
• 我想我要打喷嚏了。。。给我张纸巾。
  Wǒ xiǎng wǒ yào dǎpēntì le... gěi wǒ zhāng zhǐjīn.
  I think I'm gonna sneeze. Give me a tissue.
• 你咳嗽、打喷嚏或打哈欠的时候要捂住你的嘴。
  Cover your mouth when you cough, sneeze, or yawn.
• 我见过我家的狗打喷嚏，但是从来没见过我家的猫打喷嚏。
  I've seen our dog sneeze, but not our cat.

Where 打喷嚏 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health, Medicine & Wellbeing (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 dǎ pēn tì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.