Read Edit View history 不得不 bùdébù HSK3 must Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 不得不 bùdébù must adverb to have no choice or option but to; to be compelled by circumstances to act or acknowledge something; cannot but 面对事实，他不得不承认自己错了。 miànduì shìshí, tā bùdébù chéngrèn zìjǐ cuò le. Faced with the facts, he had no choice but to admit he was wrong. 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 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
不得不 bùdébù must adverb to have no choice or option but to; to be compelled by circumstances to act or acknowledge something; cannot but 面对事实，他不得不承认自己错了。 miànduì shìshí, tā bùdébù chéngrèn zìjǐ cuò le. Faced with the facts, he had no choice but to admit he was wrong. 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 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)