在

HSK 1#5 by frequencyradical 土

zài["p","v","d"]

(of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress); to exist; to be alive

Examples

我在。

I am here.

我在家。

I am at home.

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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.