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不得不 tener que
Stroke order
不得不 is written in 19 strokes across 3 characters.
- 不 — 4 strokes
- 得 — 11 strokes
- 不 — 4 strokes
Senses
- have no choice or option but to
- cannot but
- have to
- can't help it
- can't avoid
Example sentences
- 下雨了，我们不得不回家。Xià yǔ le, wǒmen bùdébù huí jiā.It rained, so we had to go home.
- 他不得不重新做一次。Tā bùdébù chóngxīn zuò yí cì.He had to do it over again.
Related words
不得不 is pronounced bùdébù and means “tener que”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 不得不 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.