Tom was too scared to say anything.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
说不出
unable to say
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
unable to say
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 说不出 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 说不出 appears in 16 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'm too petrified to speak.
He was so angry as to be unable to speak.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 说不出.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 说不出.
Directly before
- 得说不出7
- 我说不出2
- 也说不出1
- 嘴巴说不出1
- 一种说不出1
Directly after
- 说不出话12
- 说不出正确1
- 说不出我1
- 说不出的1
- 说不出三句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 说不出
What does 说不出 mean in Chinese?
说不出 (shuōbuchū) means unable to say.
How do you pronounce 说不出?
说不出 is pronounced shuōbuchū.
Is 说不出 an HSK word?
说不出 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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