不 得 了

bùdéliǎo

adjectiveHSK 5

“Desperately serious” in Chinese is 不得了 (bùdéliǎo).

Meaning

desperately serious
disastrous
extremely

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exceedingly

Example

我开心得不得了。

I was over the moon!

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

bùHSK 14 strokesno; not so déHSK 111 strokesto obtain leHSK 12 strokes(completed action marker)

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