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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

得来

délái

to come by; to obtain through some means

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to come by; to obtain through some means

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 得来 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 得来 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

明天你得来这儿。míng tiān nǐ dé lái zhè ér。

You have to come here tomorrow.

她应该能跟我奶奶相处得来。tā yīng gāi néng gēn wǒ nǎi nǎi xiāng chǔ dé lái。

She will get along with my grandmother.

有个数学教师说:“有了计算器,孩子可以得出正确结果,但根本不知道怎么得来的。”yǒu gè shù xué jiào shī shuō:“ yǒu le jì suàn qì, hái zi kě yǐ dé chū zhèng què jié guǒ, dàn gēn běn bù zhī dào zěn me dé lái de。”

A math teacher says, "With a calculator, the child can reach the right answer, but have no idea at all how he got there."

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 得来.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 得来.

Directly before

  • 相处得来1
  • 你得来1
  • 怎么得来1
  • 都得来1

Directly after

  • 得来这儿1
  • 得来的1
  • 得来这里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 得来

What does 得来 mean in Chinese?

得来 (délái) means to come by; to obtain through some means.

How do you pronounce 得来?

得来 is pronounced délái.

Is 得来 an HSK word?

得来 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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