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否定

fǒu dìng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

否定 (fǒu dìng) means "to negate/reject (an idea, plan)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 否定 means

1. to negate
2. to deny
3. to reject
4. negative (answer)
5. negation

The characters in 否定

• 否fǒuto negate; to deny; not
• 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…

Example sentences

• 谁也不能否定其事实。
  Shéi yě bù néngfǒu dìng qí shìshí.
  Nobody can refute that fact.
• 他怎么否定上帝的存在。
  Tā zěnme fǒudìng Shàngdì de cúnzài.
  How can he deny God's existence?
• 汤姆认为答案是否定的。
  Tom thinks the answer is no.
• 我既不能确认也不能否定。
  I can neither confirm nor deny that.
• 先肯定后否定，一正一反，就分外有力量。
  Xiān kěndìng hòu fǒudìng, yī zhèng yī fǎn, jiù fènwài yǒulì liáng.
  First acknowledge, then deny – one for and one against – and then you are in a powerful position.
• 你不能因为她所犯下的一个错误就否定她所做的一切。
  Nǐ bù néng yīnwèi tā suǒ fàn xià de yī gè cuòwù jiù fǒudìng tā suǒ zuò de yīqiè.
  You can't criticize her every action based on one single mistake.

Words starting with 否定

• 否定句fǒu dìng jùnegative sentence

Words containing 否定

• 真否定句zhēn fǒu dìng jùtrue negative (TN)

Where 否定 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Argumentation, Debate & Criticism (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fǒu dìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.