得 dé / děi / de in a sentence
Get; Have to (need); (used to indicate possibility)
得 (dé / děi / de) means Get, Have to (need), (used to indicate possibility). Below are 24 of the 64 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
From the graded readers
我很高兴，我想学 得 更好。
wǒ hěn gāoxìng, wǒ xiǎng xué dé / děi / de gènghǎo.
I'm very happy, and I want to get better.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
昨天晚上我觉 得 很不舒服。
zuótiān wǎnshang wǒ juéde hěn bù shūfu.
Last night I felt very unwell.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Going to the Doctor
跑完以后，我觉 得 很舒服。
pǎowán yǐhòu, wǒ juéde hěn shūfu.
Afterwards I felt great.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
朋友说我太舍不 得 东西了。
péngyou shuō wǒ tài shě / shè bùdé dōngxī le / liǎo / liào.
My friend says I'm too attached to things.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
我总觉 得 自己在浪费时间。
wǒ zǒng juéde zìjǐ zài làngfèi shíjiān.
I kept feeling I was wasting time.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
他笑了笑说：“你觉 得 呢？”
tā xiào le / liǎo / liào xiào shuō:" nǐ juéde ne / ní?"
He smiled and said, "What do you think?"
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Going to the Doctor
她总是先问：“你觉 得 呢？”
tā zǒngshì xiān wèn:" nǐ juéde ne / ní?"
She always asks first, "What do you think?"
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
前面的问题我都回答 得 不错。
qiánmian de / dì wèntí wǒ dōu huídá dé / děi / de búcuò.
I answered the first questions well enough.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
From the grammar library
这个比那个贵 得 多。
Zhège bǐ nàge guì de duō.
This one is much more expensive than that one.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 比 comparisons
他说中文说 得 很好。
Tā shuō Zhōngwén shuō de hěn hǎo.
He speaks Chinese very well.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · 的 vs 得 vs 地
得 appears in 64 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 得
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 得
How is 得 used in a sentence?
This page shows 64 sentences using 得 (dé / děi / de, "Get, Have to (need), (used to indicate possibility)"), 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.
Why do some sentences show 得 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 得 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 得 an HSK word?
Yes — 得 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 得?
The dictionary page for 得 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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