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就要

jiù yào

HSK 2 · word 788 of 3,000

Meaning

• will
• shall
• to be going to

Example sentence

Characters in 就要

• 就 jiù (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then
• 要 yào to want; to need; to ask for

就 then plus 要, about to. About to happen imminently, and it usually takes 了 at the end: 就要下雨了.

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