老是
Meaning
- always
Example sentence
你老是不满意！
You're never satisfied!
Characters in 老是
- 老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
- 是 shì to be (followed by substantives only)
老 always plus 是, to be. Here 老 means persistently, usually with a note of complaint: 他老是迟到.