不懂

bùdǒng
  1. (as a verbal complement) unable to comprehend (when seeing, hearing, etc.); cannot
  2. to not understand
  3. unable to comprehend (when seeing, hearing, etc.); cannot

Wiktionary

Examples

我不懂德语。

I don't understand German.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂这些.

I don't understand these.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂音樂。

I don't have an ear for music.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂音乐。

I don't understand music.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂得游泳。

I don't know how to swim.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂你的意思

I don't understand what you mean.

Source: Tatoeba

我真读不懂她。

I can't really read her.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂這個字。

I don't understand this word.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂你的心。

I don't understand your mind.

I don't know your heart.

Source: Tatoeba

我完全不懂德语。

I don't understand German at all.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂这个工作。

This work is beyond me.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂西班牙语。

I don't speak Spanish.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂我說的話。

I don't understand what I'm saying.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂葡萄牙語。

I don't understand Portuguese.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂他的意思。

I can't figure out what he means.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂您的意思。

I don't understand what you mean.

Source: Tatoeba

這個男孩不懂禮貌。

The boy doesn't know how to behave.

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂发生了什么。

I can't understand what happened.

Source: Tatoeba

你不懂基本逻辑吗？

Do you not understand basic logic?

Source: Tatoeba

我不懂他的玩笑話。

I didn't get his joke.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 不 bù
  1. no; not so
  2. (bound form) not; un-
2 懂 dǒng
  1. to understand
  2. to comprehend

Containing this entry

不懂裝懂 bùdǒngzhuāngdǒng to pretend to understand when you don't
半懂不懂 bàndǒngbùdǒng
  1. to not fully understand
  2. to only partly understand
弄不懂 nòngbudǒng unable to make sense of (sth)
搞不懂 gǎobudǒng unable to make sense of (sth)
看不懂 kànbudǒng unable to make sense of what one is looking at
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