根本

HSK 5#591 by frequencyradical 木

gēn běn["d","n","a"]

fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all

Measure word: 个

Examples

我根本不累。

I'm not tired at all.

我根本不信。

I don't believe 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.