About to with 要…了

Structure 要 / 快(要) + Verb + 了

To announce that something will happen soon you use 要 + verb + 了 (or 快要…了, 快…了): 火车要开了 = "the train is about to leave". The final 了 is essential: it marks the imminent change. 快(要)…了 stresses even more that it’s imminent.

Examples

火huǒ车chē要yào开kāi了le。
The train is about to leave.
快kuài下xià雨yǔ了le。
It’s about to rain.
我wǒ们men快kuài到dào了le。
We’re almost there.

Levels are indicative: they follow the standard Chinese Grammar Wiki (AllSet Learning) progression, not an official HSK 3.0 mapping. We never assign levels by eye.

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