什么的

Pinyin: shén me de

and so on

Example sentence

我买了水果、面包什么的。

Wǒ mǎi le shuǐguǒ, miànbāo shénmede.

I bought fruit, bread and so on.

What 什么的 means

什么的 (shén me de) is an Chinese word meaning “and so on”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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