本来

本來traditional

HSK 4#1093 by frequencyradical 木

běn lái["d","b"]

originally; at first; original; it goes without saying; of course

Examples

她本来没必要付钱的。

She needn't have paid the money.

我本来什么也不知道啊！

Originally, I knew nothing about it at all!

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.