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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

搞不懂

gǎobudǒng

unable to make sense of (sth)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

unable to make sense of (sth)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 搞不懂 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 搞不懂 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你真搞不懂。nǐ zhēn gǎo bù dǒng。

You just don't understand.

我真的搞不懂为什么。wǒ zhēn de gǎo bù dǒng wèi shén me。

I really can't figure out why.

汤姆说他搞不懂玛丽要的是什么。tāng mǔ shuō tā gǎo bù dǒng mǎ lì yào de shì shén me。

Tom says he can't figure out what Mary wants.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 搞不懂.

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

Directly before

  • 真搞不懂2
  • 完全搞不懂1
  • 我搞不懂1
  • 他搞不懂1
  • 真的搞不懂1

Directly after

  • 搞不懂那道1
  • 搞不懂他1
  • 搞不懂怎1
  • 搞不懂玛丽1
  • 搞不懂为什么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 搞不懂

What does 搞不懂 mean in Chinese?

搞不懂 (gǎobudǒng) means unable to make sense of (sth).

How do you pronounce 搞不懂?

搞不懂 is pronounced gǎobudǒng.

Is 搞不懂 an HSK word?

搞不懂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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