不 由 得

bùyóude

verbadverbHSK 7-9

“Can't help” in Chinese is 不由得 (bùyóude).

Meaning

can't help
cannot but

Example

不由得想起了故乡。

I can never forget my hometown.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

bùHSK 14 strokesno; not so yóuHSK 25 strokesto follow déHSK 111 strokesto obtain

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