HSK 5 grammar · conjunction
没有…就没有…
没有…就没有… — without A there'd be no B
Pattern
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( ) can be left out · other words may come before, between and after
How it works
没有…就没有… states that B depends entirely on A: "without A, there would be no B." It stresses that the first thing is the indispensable precondition for the second.
Examples
没有大家的帮助，就没有今天的成功。
Méiyǒu dàjiā de bāngzhù, jiù méiyǒu jīntiān de chénggōng.
Without everyone's help, there would be no success today.
没有辛勤的付出，就没有丰收的果实。
Méiyǒu xīnqín de fùchū, jiù méiyǒu fēngshōu de guǒshí.
Without hard work, there would be no bountiful harvest.
Related
See it in a story
In the app, 没有…就没有… is underlined wherever it appears in the stories you read, and practised with sentences from them. Free.