真是

HSK 7–9#748 by frequency

zhēn shì["动"]

really

zhēn shi

indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc)

Examples

真是个惊喜！

This really is a nice surprise!

真是烦死了。

It really is very annoying.

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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.