What the hell happened?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
怎么回事
what's the matter?
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
what's the matter?
02
what's going on?
03
how could that be?
04
how did that come about?
05
what's it all about?
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 怎么回事 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 怎么回事 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
What is the matter with you?
What is the matter with you?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 怎么回事.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 怎么回事.
Directly before
- 到底怎么回事4
- 知道怎么回事1
- 这是怎么回事1
- 是怎么回事1
- 弄清楚怎么回事1
Directly after
- 怎么回事啊1
- 怎么回事嘛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 怎么回事
What does 怎么回事 mean in Chinese?
怎么回事 (zěnmehuíshì) means what's the matter?.
How do you pronounce 怎么回事?
怎么回事 is pronounced zěnmehuíshì.
Is 怎么回事 an HSK word?
怎么回事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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