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难怪

nán guài

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 難怪

难怪 (nán guài) means "(it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 难怪 means

1. (it's) no wonder (that...)
2. (it's) not surprising (that)

The characters in 难怪

• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 怪guàiodd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange…

Example sentences

• 难怪他失败了。
  It is no wonder that he failed.
• 难怪他这么生气。
  No wonder he is so angry.
• 难怪你这么生气。
  No wonder you're so upset.
• 难怪我们没有办法说话。
  No wonder we could not speak.
• 她得了肝炎，难怪越来越瘦了。
  Tā déle gānyán, nánguài yuèláiyuè shòu le.
  She got hepatitis no wonder she is losing so much weight.
• 他得了肺炎，难怪他在不停的咳嗽。
  Tā déle fèiyán, nánguài tā zài bù tíng de késou.
  He's got pneumonia. No wonder he is coughing nonstop.

Where 难怪 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 nán guài correctly.
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