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HSK 3 Connectors & compound sentences

只要 … 就 …

As long as… (只要…就…)

Structure 只要 + sufficient condition,就 + result

只要…就… (zhǐyào… jiù…) gives a SUFFICIENT condition: A happening is enough for B. 只要努力,就能成功 = "as long as you work hard, you’ll succeed". Don’t confuse it with 只有…才… ("only if…"), which marks a NECESSARY, stricter condition.

Examples

  • 只zhǐ要yào努nǔ力lì,就jiù能néng成chéng功gōng。

    As long as you work hard, you can succeed.

  • 只zhǐ要yào你nǐ来lái,我wǒ就jiù高gāo兴xìng。

    As long as you come, I’m happy.

  • 只zhǐ要yào有yǒu时shí间jiān,我wǒ就jiù看kàn书shū。

    Whenever I have time, I read.

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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