It is the things that we do not possess which seem to us most desirable.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
得不到
cannot get
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
cannot get
02
cannot obtain
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 得不到 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 得不到 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You gain nothing by speaking ill of others.
If you don't resolve to become a good man, then you just won't get a good woman.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 得不到.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 得不到.
Directly before
- 就得不到1
- 他得不到1
- 你得不到1
- 都得不到1
- 着得不到1
Directly after
- 得不到的3
- 得不到好1
- 得不到他1
- 得不到什么1
- 得不到任何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 得不到
What does 得不到 mean in Chinese?
得不到 (débùdào) means cannot get.
How do you pronounce 得不到?
得不到 is pronounced débùdào.
Is 得不到 an HSK word?
得不到 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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