We don't live in Boston.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不住
(verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc)
02
repeatedly; continuously; constantly
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不住 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不住 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Dan didn't even live in London.
Your team members can't even catch the ball.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不住.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不住.
Directly before
- 我们不住2
- 他不住1
- 我不住1
- 网不住1
- 抱不住1
Directly after
- 不住在7
- 不住豺狼1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 不住
What does 不住 mean in Chinese?
不住 (bùzhù) means (verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc).
How do you pronounce 不住?
不住 is pronounced bùzhù.
Is 不住 an HSK word?
不住 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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