怎么
zěnme
how
Part of speech · pronoun (question)
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 怎么去?How to go?
- 怎么了?What's wrong?
Collocations
怎么了怎么办怎么样
Mnemonic
怎么 zěnme "how, why" — interrogative adverb. "怎么 + V" asks method; "怎么 了" asks "what's up?". Japanese 如何 ikaga (formal) is the closest functional match.
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Meaning of 怎么了?