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耽搁

dānge

“To tarry” in Chinese is 耽搁 (dānge).

Meaning

  • to tarry
  • to delay
  • to stop over

Example

火车因大雪被耽搁了。

The train was delayed because of heavy snowfall.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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