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懂得

dǒng de

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

懂得 (dǒng de) means "to understand, to know (how or why)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 懂得 means

1. to understand; to know; to comprehend

The characters in 懂得

• 懂dǒngto understand; to comprehend
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…

Example sentences

• 我不懂得游泳。
  I don't know how to swim.
• 你懂得用这台相机吗？
  Do you know how to use this camera?
• 她懂得很多英文生字。
  She has a rich vocabulary of English words.
• 汤姆完全不懂得法语。
  Tom doesn't know any French.
• 懂得用电脑是一种优势。
  Dǒngde yòng diànnǎo shì yīzhǒng yōushì.
  It is an advantage to be able to use a computer.
• 婴儿不懂得分是非黑白。
  Yīng'ér bù dǒngde fēn shìfēi hēibái.
  A baby has no knowledge of good and evil.

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