How to Say ‘Push it back half an hour’ in Simplified Chinese
往后推半个小时
wǎng hòu tuī bàn gè xiǎo shí
[wǎnghòu tuī ban guh xiǎoshí]
💬 Usage Tip: 往后推 (wǎng hòu tuī) means "push later". Switch it to 往前 and you get "move earlier", as in 往前提半个小时. Note that 半个小时 puts 半 before 个, giving the word order "half an hour".
Phrase Breakdown
往后推
wǎng hòu tuī
push back / postpone
往后 (wǎng hòu) means backward or later. 推 (tuī) means to push. Together they mean to delay a time.
会议往后推了。
The meeting was pushed back.
Words in this phrase
往后
wǎng hòu
[wǎnghòu]
later; backward
Toward a later time or further back.
会议往后改了一天。
The meeting was moved one day later.
推
tuī
[tuī]
to push back; postpone
To delay or move a time later.
晚饭推到七点吧。
Let's push dinner to seven.
半个小时
bàn gè xiǎo shí
half an hour
半 (bàn) means half. Note the word order: 半个小时, not 小时半.
我们休息半个小时。
Let's take a half-hour break.
Words in this phrase
半
bàn
[ban]
half
One of two equal parts.
他吃了一半的蛋糕。
He ate half of the cake.
个
gè
[guh]
measure word
A general classifier used with nouns such as 活动.
说“这个活动”时，要用量词“个”。
When saying “this event,” you need the measure word 个.
小时
xiǎo shí
[xiǎoshí]
hour
A unit of time of sixty minutes.
我睡了八个小时。
I slept for eight hours.
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