No published English translation for this sentence.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
只怕
I'm afraid that
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
I'm afraid that
02
perhaps
03
maybe
04
very likely
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 只怕 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 只怕 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 只怕.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 只怕.
Directly before
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
Directly after
- 只怕万一1
- 只怕自己1
- 只怕多事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 只怕
What does 只怕 mean in Chinese?
只怕 (zhǐpà) means I'm afraid that.
How do you pronounce 只怕?
只怕 is pronounced zhǐpà.
Is 只怕 an HSK word?
只怕 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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