I can't keep up with Tom.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
跟不上
not able to keep up with
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
not able to keep up with
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 跟不上 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 跟不上 appears in 12 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I cannot follow your logic.
You walk too fast for me to keep up with you.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 跟不上.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 跟不上.
Directly before
- 我跟不上9
- 完全跟不上1
- 小牛跟不上1
- 数学跟不上1
Directly after
- 跟不上你4
- 跟不上汤姆2
- 跟不上你们1
- 跟不上呀1
- 跟不上逃离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 跟不上
What does 跟不上 mean in Chinese?
跟不上 (gēnbushàng) means not able to keep up with.
How do you pronounce 跟不上?
跟不上 is pronounced gēnbushàng.
Is 跟不上 an HSK word?
跟不上 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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