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耽误

dānwu

“To delay” in Chinese is 耽误 (dānwu).

Meaning

  • to delay
  • to hold up
  • to waste time
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  • to interfere with

Example

事故耽误了我们半小时。

An accident delayed us for half an hour.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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