不得不 bùdébù HSK3 have to Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 不得不 bùdébù have to auxiliaryadverb have no choice but to; cannot but; must 我们不得不离开这里。 wǒmen bùdébù lí kāi zhèlǐ. We have to leave here. 我总是不得不付款。 wǒ zǒngshì bùdébù fù kuǎn. I always have to pay. Frequency Movie subtitles 82.2 per million appears in 30% of films Written text 60.5 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 4 HSK 3.0 Level 3 Cross-References Same as 不能不 bùnéngbùSynonym 只好 zhǐhǎo只能 zhǐnéng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
不得不 bùdébù have to auxiliaryadverb have no choice but to; cannot but; must 我们不得不离开这里。 wǒmen bùdébù lí kāi zhèlǐ. We have to leave here. 我总是不得不付款。 wǒ zǒngshì bùdébù fù kuǎn. I always have to pay. Frequency Movie subtitles 82.2 per million appears in 30% of films Written text 60.5 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 4 HSK 3.0 Level 3 Cross-References Same as 不能不 bùnéngbùSynonym 只好 zhǐhǎo只能 zhǐnéng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
