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难免

nán miǎn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 難免

难免 (nán miǎn) means "hard to avoid". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 难免 means

1. hard to avoid
2. difficult to escape from
3. will inevitably

The characters in 难免

• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 免miǎnto excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office

Example sentences

• 事情难免会发生。
  Stuff happens.
• 我们知道人皆难免一死。
  Wǒmen zhīdào rén jiē nánmiǎn yī sǐ.
  We know that all men are mortal.
• 生活中的烦恼在所难免。
  Shēnghuó zhōng de fánnǎo zàisuǒnánmiǎn.
  The troubles of life are inevitable.
• 外交部长称战争在所难免。
  The Foreign Minister said that war was inevitable.
• ...不然难免会有适得其反的情况出现。
  ... bù rán nánmiǎn huì yǒu shìdéqífǎn de qíngkuàng chūxiàn.
  ... Otherwise it is (or will be) hard to avoid a counterproductive situation.

Words containing 难免

• 在所难免zài suǒ nán miǎnto be unavoidable (idiom)

Where 难免 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · ēn–ná (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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