不得了

Pinyin: bùdéliǎo

desperately serious; disastrous; extremely; exceedingly

🏮 Chinese HSK 5 adjective

Example sentence

一斤四元五毛,便宜得不得了!

Yī jīn sì yuán wǔ máo, piányi de bù déliǎo!

4.5 yuan for one pound, now isn't that cheap!

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What 不得了 means

不得了 (bùdéliǎo) is a Chinese word meaning “desperately serious; disastrous; extremely; exceedingly”. It appears in the HSK 5 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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