巴不得 Definitions — Chinese Character Wiki

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bābude HSK7

to be eager for

巴不得 bābude

to be eager for verb: to earnestly wish for; to long for; to look forward to something happening; 我巴不得这周末快点结束。

wǒ bābude zhè zhōumò kuàidiǎn jiéshù.

I cannot wait for this weekend to be over.

Frequency

Movie subtitles: 2.21 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text: 1.37 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 6
HSK 3.0: Level 7

Cross-References

Synonym

恨不得 hènbude

Sources

Frequency data: SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)