Sorry, I don't understand.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
听不懂
unable to make sense of what one is hearing
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
unable to make sense of what one is hearing
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 听不懂 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 听不懂 appears in 29 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
What did you say? I don't understand!
I couldn't understand his joke.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 听不懂.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 听不懂.
Directly before
- 我听不懂13
- 也听不懂3
- 他听不懂2
- 完全听不懂2
- 法国人听不懂1
Directly after
- 听不懂你5
- 听不懂他4
- 听不懂她1
- 听不懂同学1
- 听不懂我们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 听不懂
What does 听不懂 mean in Chinese?
听不懂 (tīngbudǒng) means unable to make sense of what one is hearing.
How do you pronounce 听不懂?
听不懂 is pronounced tīngbudǒng.
Is 听不懂 an HSK word?
听不懂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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