She had the nerve to speak out.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
竟敢
to have the impertinence; to have the cheek to
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to have the impertinence; to have the cheek to
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 竟敢 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 竟敢 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
How dare you speak like that to me?
How dare you speak like that to your elders and betters!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 竟敢.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 竟敢.
Directly before
- 你竟敢2
- 她竟敢1
Directly after
- 竟敢这样2
- 竟敢说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 竟敢
What does 竟敢 mean in Chinese?
竟敢 (jìnggǎn) means to have the impertinence; to have the cheek to.
How do you pronounce 竟敢?
竟敢 is pronounced jìnggǎn.
Is 竟敢 an HSK word?
竟敢 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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