A0 · reviewed · real-chinese

有空吗?

Are you free?
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Practice path

Make this line survive without the page.

Start with the sound, then answer the authored recall prompts for this exact line. No browsing through the whole quiz set.

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Scene

When to use it

Starting a plan, call, favor, or quick check by asking whether someone has time.

Risk

safe

With strangers or senior people, soften it with 请问 or 你现在方便吗.

Literal

Have free time?

有空吗 is short and useful for making plans without jumping straight into the request.

Examples

Say it inside real sentences.

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01 Are you free tonight?
02 Are you free tomorrow?

Mini dialogue

Hear the social move.

Play both lines, then say the second line without looking.

A Are you free now?
B Yes. What is up?

Contrast

Do not blur these together.

01 Are you free?
02 Are you busy? More direct.

Recall prompts

Check whether it survived.

01 · What does 有空吗? mean?

Answer: Are you free?

有空吗 is short and useful for making plans without jumping straight into the request.

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02 · Fill the pinyin for 有空吗?

Answer: yǒu kòng ma?

有空吗? is pronounced yǒu kòng ma?

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03 · Which line asks if someone has time?

Answer: 有空吗?

Starting a plan, call, favor, or quick check by asking whether someone has time.

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