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哪怕

nǎ pà

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

哪怕 (nǎ pà) means "even if (…也/都)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 哪怕 means

1. even
2. even if
3. even though
4. no matter how

The characters in 哪怕

• 哪nǎhow; which
• 怕pàto be afraid; to fear; to dread

Example sentences

• 哪怕没有人陪我，我也要去看这部电影。
  Nǎpà méiyǒu rén péi wǒ, wǒ yě yào qù kàn zhè bù diànyǐng.
  Even if no one goes with me, I still want to see this movie.

Where 哪怕 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Conditional & Hedging Words (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 nǎ pà correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.