以前

HSK 3#524 by frequencyradical 人

yǐ qián["f"]

before; formerly; previous; ago

Examples

多久以前？

How long ago was that?

我以前在山里。

I was in the mountains.

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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.