竟然

竟然 jìngrán in a sentence

Unexpectedly

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

竟然 (jìngrán) means Unexpectedly. Below are 2 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

竟然 忘了我的名字。

Tā jìngrán wàng le wǒ de míngzi.

He actually forgot my name.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 竟然

这么难的题他 竟然 做对了。

Zhème nán de tí tā jìngrán zuò duì le.

He actually got such a hard question right.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 竟然

Questions about 竟然

How is 竟然 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 竟然 (jìngrán, "Unexpectedly"), 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 竟然 an HSK word?

Yes — 竟然 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

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