得

links a verb to how it's done; (dé) to get

No. 56 most used · 0.41% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 243.

Also read: dé 得到, děi 得去

How it's built

• 彳left step
• 旦dawn
• 寸inch

A way to remember it

Walk (彳), and at dawn (旦) your hand (寸) closes on it: you got it.

Words

• 觉得

  jué de

  to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)
• 得到

  dé dào

  to get; to obtain; to receive
• 记得

  jì de

  to remember
• 变得

  biàn de

  to become
• 不得不

  bù dé bù

  have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to
• 值得

  zhí de

  worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth)

Sentences

• 中国比日本大得多。

  zhōng guó bǐ rì běn dà de duō

  China is much larger than Japan.
• 他今天不见得会来。

  tā jīn tiān bú jiàn de huì lái

  He is unlikely to come today.
• 他的物理学得很好。

  tā de wù lǐ xué de hěn hǎo

  He does well in physics.
• 想要被爱就得去爱。

  xiǎng yào bèi ài jiù de qù ài

  Love if you want to be loved!

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.