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恨不得

hèn bu de

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word

恨不得 (hèn bu de) means "wishing one could do sth; to hate to be unable; itching to do sth". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 恨不得 means

1. wishing one could do sth; to hate to be unable; itching to do sth

The characters in 恨不得

• 恨hènto hate; to regret
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…

Where 恨不得 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · hé–hōng (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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