快要

HSK 2#5135 by frequencyradical 忄

kuài yào["d"]

nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth)

Examples

你快要走了。

You will be going soon.

他快要睡了。

He was just on the verge of going to sleep.

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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.