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怎么

zěn me
HSK 2.0 Level 1 HSK 3.0 Level 1

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Definitions

  1. 1. how?
  2. 2. what?
  3. 3. why?

Example Sentences

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你 怎么 拼“pretty”？
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 332743)
怎么 办?
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 1748539)
怎么 样？
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 5214222)

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Words Containing 怎么

不怎么样
bù zěn me yàng

not up to much

怎么说呢
zěn me shuō ne

Why is that?

怎么搞的
zěn me gǎo de

How did it happen?

怎么了
zěn me le

What's up?

怎么回事
zěn me huí shì

what's going on?

怎么着
zěn me zhāo

what?

不怎么
bù zěn me

not very

怎么得了
zěn me dé liǎo

how can this be?

再怎么
zài zěn me

no matter how ...

怎么样
zěn me yàng

how?

怎么办
zěn me bàn

what's to be done

Child Words of 怎么

怎
zěn

how

么
ma

interrogative final particle

么
má

exclamatory final particle