做主
zuò​zhǔ

decide/intervene

做主 zuò​zhǔ
decide/intervene verb
to make a decision on behalf of someone else, or to intervene to seek justice or resolution in a situation.

这件事我也拿不定主意，还是得请父母来做主。

zhè jiàn shì wǒ yě ná bù dìng zhǔ​yi, hái​shi děi qǐng fù​mǔ lái zuò​zhǔ.

I can't make up my mind about this; I'll have to let my parents decide.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
4.17 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
4.11 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6

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Definitions
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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)