# What is 不拉嘰?

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**Category:** Learning Chinese\
**Created:** [October 28, 2007, 12:02pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is/41159 "2007-10-28T12:02:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![urch](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/b19c9b/32.png) [@urch](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/urch)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:02pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is/41159/1 "2007-10-28T12:02:12Z")

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what is 不拉嘰 exactly? i have seen it with adjectives before it but never really understanding the whole adj + 不拉嘰… hehehe

so how do you explain 假不拉嘰; 傻不拉嘰; 瘦不拉嘰?

i’m just new in mandarin. 😃

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**Author:** ![hannes](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hannes/32/161150_2.png) [@hannes](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/hannes)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:19pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is/41159/2 "2007-10-28T12:19:09Z")

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I can only think of “very” as explanation.

other common combinations are

紅不拉嘰 very red  
兇不拉嘰 very mean  
醜不拉嘰 very ugly

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**Author:** ![Dragonbones](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/dragonbones/32/1125_2.png) [@Dragonbones](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Dragonbones)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is/41159/3 "2007-10-28T12:44:26Z")

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Dragonbabe says it doesn’t stand on its own. Think of it as an intensifying suffix, like “…in the extreme”, and generally for negative things. Although she says it’s not really extreme in degree, but more like ‘very’. :idunno:

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**Author:** ![urch](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/b19c9b/32.png) [@urch](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/urch)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is/41159/4 "2007-10-28T13:01:56Z")

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wow thanks! so it’s an intensifier hehehe. great i’ve learned something new!

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**Author:** ![hannes](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hannes/32/161150_2.png) [@hannes](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/hannes)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is/41159/5 "2007-10-31T04:16:07Z")

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It’s slang and not very common. Of course you cannot just replace very (很; hen) with it.  
I have heard the combination with “red” quite often before.

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**Author:** ![macrohardest](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@macrohardest](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/macrohardest)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is/41159/6 "2007-10-31T04:39:20Z")

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I’m sure you can always improvise and all that, who doesn’t have the creativity anyway? But my point is “No local says that”. Being content is one thing, while being understood is another.