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反驳

fǎn bó

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 反駁

反驳 (fǎn bó) means "to retort; to refute". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 反驳 means

1. to retort
2. to refute

The characters in 反驳

• 反fǎncontrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down
• 驳bóvariegated; heterogeneous; to refute

Example sentences

• 那你就可以反驳他。
  Then, you can refute it.
• 我不是在反驳这个。
  I'm not refuting that.
• 我不打算反驳你的论点。
  I won't try to refute your theses.
• 汤姆无法反驳玛丽的论点。
  Tom was unable to refute Mary's arguments.
• 我现在正在反驳你的论点。
  I am refuting your argument right now.
• 汤姆用一个反例反驳了那个说法。
  Tom refuted that assertion with a counterexample.

Where 反驳 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fān–fā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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