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断定

duàn dìng

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

断定 (duàn dìng) means "to conclude; to determine; to come to a judgment". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 断定 means

1. to conclude
2. to determine
3. to come to a judgment

The characters in 断定

• 断duànto break; to snap; to cut off
• 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…

Example sentences

• 昨晚的火灾被断定为由纵火引起的。
  The fire that broke out last night was judged to be caused by arson.
• 因为他做了不少坏事，我们可以断定他不是个好人。
  Yīnwèi tā zuò le bù shǎo huàishì, wǒmen kěyǐ duàndìng tā bù shì gè hǎo rén.
  As he has done a lot of bad things, we can conclude that he is a bad person.

Where 断定 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · duān–dù (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read duàn dìng correctly.
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