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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

总要

zǒngyào

nevertheless

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

nevertheless

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 总要 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 总要 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你为什麽总要大叫?nǐ wèi shén mó zǒng yào dà jiào?

Why are you always shouting?

我睡觉前总要洗个澡。wǒ shuì jiào qián zǒng yào xǐ gè zǎo。

I always take a bath before going to bed.

他说英文时总要出一点的错。tā shuō yīng wén shí zǒng yào chū yì diǎn de cuò。

He never speaks English without making a few mistakes.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 总要.

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

Directly before

  • 前总要1
  • 时总要1
  • 我总要1
  • 麽总要1

Directly after

  • 总要洗个1
  • 总要出1
  • 总要有1
  • 总要休息1
  • 总要大叫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 总要

What does 总要 mean in Chinese?

总要 (zǒngyào) means nevertheless.

How do you pronounce 总要?

总要 is pronounced zǒngyào.

Is 总要 an HSK word?

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

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