Your boat is not big.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不大
not very (clear, far away etc); not too
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
not very (clear, far away etc); not too
02
not often; infrequently
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不大 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不大 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
My class is not very big; there are only 11 students.
The films shown in this modest cinema had an intermission during which the projectionist changed the reel.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不大.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不大.
Directly before
- 班不大1
- 船不大1
- 也不大1
- 规模不大1
- 桥不大1
Directly after
- 不大的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 不大
What does 不大 mean in Chinese?
不大 (bùdà) means not very (clear, far away etc); not too.
How do you pronounce 不大?
不大 is pronounced bùdà.
Is 不大 an HSK word?
不大 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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