不得不 bùdébù in a sentence
Forced to (can’t avoid to - have no choice but to - have to)
不得不 (bùdébù) means Forced to (can’t avoid to - have no choice but to - have to). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他 不得不 放弃这次机会。
Tā bù dé bù fàngqì zhè cì jīhuì.
He had no choice but to give up this opportunity.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 不得不
下雨了，我们 不得不 回家。
Xià yǔ le, wǒmen bù dé bù huí jiā.
It started raining, so we had to go home.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 不得不
家里发生了变故，他 不得不 退学。
Jiā lǐ fāshēng le biàngù, tā bùdébù tuìxué.
Something happened at home and he had to drop out of school.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 变故
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Questions about 不得不
How is 不得不 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 不得不 (bùdébù, "Forced to (can’t avoid to - have no choice but to - have to)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 不得不 an HSK word?
Yes — 不得不 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 不得不?
The dictionary page for 不得不 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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