I screwed up the very first note.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
搞砸
to mess (sth) up
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to mess (sth) up
02
to foul up
03
to spoil
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 搞砸 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 搞砸 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Never rush, or you risk doing things wrong.
We've been working on this for five months. Don't fuck it up now.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 搞砸.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 搞砸.
Directly before
- 我搞砸2
- 这时候搞砸1
- 事情搞砸1
- 他搞砸1
Directly after
- 搞砸了5
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 搞砸
What does 搞砸 mean in Chinese?
搞砸 (gǎozá) means to mess (sth) up.
How do you pronounce 搞砸?
搞砸 is pronounced gǎozá.
Is 搞砸 an HSK word?
搞砸 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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