来不及

Pinyin: lái bu jí

too late; not enough time

Example sentence

快点,来不及了!

Kuài diǎn, láibují le!

Hurry, we're running out of time!

What 来不及 means

来不及 (lái bu jí) is a Chinese word meaning “too late; not enough time”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 3 (and again in HSK 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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