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不得不bùdébùto have no choice but to

Theme
Connectives
Level
HSK 4
Strokes
19
Characters
3

How 不得不 is written

Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.

不 — 4 strokes, in writing order from left to right.
得 — 11 strokes, in writing order from left to right.
不 — 4 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a practice sheet with 不得不

Examples

下雨了，我们不得不回家。

Xià yǔ le, wǒmen bùdébù huí jiā.

It started raining, so we had to go home.

  • 下xiàdown; to go down; next
  • 雨yǔrain
  • 了lecompleted action marker
  • 我们wǒmenwe
  • 不得不bùdébùto have no choice but to
  • 回huíto return
  • 家jiāhome

他病了，不得不在家休息。

Tā bìng le, bùdébù zài jiā xiūxi.

He fell ill and had to rest at home.

  • 他tāhe
  • 病bìngillness; to fall ill
  • 了lecompleted action marker
  • 不得不bùdébùto have no choice but to
  • 在zàito be at; in
  • 家jiāhome
  • 休息xiūxito rest

Not to be confused with

Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.

  • 不用
  • 不必
  • 不得了