之前

HSK 4#479 by frequencyradical 丿

zhī qián["f"]

before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand

Examples

之前你在哪里？

Where were you?

上床之前关灯。

Turn off the light before you go to bed.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.