一时半会儿

一時半會兒

yìshí bànhuìr

phrase

Meanings

HSK 2

他出去了，一时半会儿回不来。

Tā chūqu le, yìshí bànhuìr huíbulái.

He's gone out and won't be back for a while.

HSK 6

别着急，这病一时半会儿好不了，得慢慢养。

Bié zháojí, zhè bìng yìshí bànhuìr hǎobuliǎo, děi mànmàn yǎng.

Don't worry; this illness won't clear up any time soon, so you'll have to recover slowly.

grammar

Nearly always with a negative. Followed by a "cannot" form such as 回不来 "can't get back" or 好不了 "won't get better", it means "not any time soon".

一 yī

时 shí

半 bàn

会 huì

儿 ér