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下来

xiàlái

“To come down” in Chinese is 下来 (xiàlái).

Meaning

  • to come down
  • (completed action marker)
  • (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)
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  • (indicates continuation from the past towards us)
  • to be harvested (of crops)
  • to be over (of a period of time)
  • to go among the masses (said of leaders)

Example

你给我下来!

Get down here!

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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