究竟

HSK 4#1812 by frequencyradical 穴

jiū jìng["d","n"]

after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; to go to the bottom of a matter; outcome; result

Examples

究竟谁要负责？

Who exactly is responsible?

汤姆究竟在做什么？

What exactly does Tom do?

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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.