竟然

HSK 4#1381 by frequencyradical 立

jìng rán["d"]

unexpectedly; to one's surprise; actually; to go as far as to; in spite of everything; in that crazy way

Examples

他竟然叫你笨蛋。

He unexpectedly called you stupid.

他竟然还给我装傻。

Despite everything he is still playing dumb.

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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.