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Expressing "when the time comes" with "dao shihou"
到时候(dào shíhou) basically means the same thing as "when the times comes." Usually "when the time comes" is pointing to a specific event in the future.
- Keywords
- 时候 · 到 · 时 · 候
- Used for
- Expressing time and date
- Classification
- Adverbs
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Summary, structure, classification, and adapted sentence examples draw from the AllSet Learning Chinese Grammar Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; changes were made. This noncommercial reference is based on an October 2023 snapshot.
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