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Expressing “must" with "feidei"
非得 (fēiděi) can be translated as "must" or "have to." Usually it appears in the grammar structure 非得...不可/不行/不成, which expresses something is supposed to be a certain way and not change, or that something will certainly happen.
- Keywords
- 非得 · 非 · 得 · 可 · must
- Used for
- Expressing obligations · Giving commands
- Classification
- Sentence patterns
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Summary, structure, classification, and adapted sentence examples draw from the AllSet Learning Chinese Grammar Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; changes were made. This noncommercial reference is based on an October 2023 snapshot.
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