快要
kuài​yào HSK2

about to

快要 kuài​yào
about to adverb
Shows that something will happen very soon; nearly at the point of doing something or occurring

我快要饿死了。

wǒ kuài​yào è sǐ le.

I'm starving to death.

婚礼快要开始了。

hūn​lǐ kuài​yào kāi​shǐ le.

The wedding is about to start.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
23.2 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
12.8 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 2

Cross-References

Synonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)