就要⋯⋯了
jiù yào …… le
Expressing "about to" with "jiuyao"
就要…了 says something is about to happen, usually with a countdown attached.
(还有 + Time Period +) 就要 + Verb + 了
How it works
还有五天就要放假了 — five more days and the holiday starts. 就要 takes a specific time frame in a way 快要 does not.
The closing 了 is required. 快要…了 and 快…了 are the looser variants, used when there's no explicit countdown.
Examples
hái yǒu wǔ tiān jiù yào fàng jià le
还有五天就要放假了。
Five more days and the holidays start.
huǒ chē jiù yào kāi le
火车就要开了。
The train's about to leave.
tā jiù yào bì yè le
他就要毕业了。
He's about to graduate.