小时候

小時候

xiǎoshíhou

noun HSK 2 #2,274

Meanings

Literally 'small time' — when one was young.

Wǒ xiǎoshíhou hěn ài wán.

I loved to play when I was young.

Xiǎoshíhou wǒ zhù zài nóngcūn.

I lived in the countryside as a child.

Nǐ xiǎoshíhou de mèngxiǎng shì shénme?

What was your childhood dream?

grammar

小时候 is a time word that goes at the beginning of a sentence or after the subject: 我小时候... (when I was young...).

小 xiǎo

时 shí

候 hòu