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顿时

dùnshí
adverbHSK 7-9

“Immediately” in Chinese is 顿时 (dùnshí).

Meaning

  • immediately; suddenly

Example

当我第一次回波士顿时,我真是孤独。

When I first came back to Boston, I was really lonely.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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