压根儿

壓根兒

yàgēnr

adverb #18,167

Meanings

我压根儿就没听说过这件事。

Wǒ yàgēnr jiù méi tīngshuō guò zhè jiàn shì.

I never heard about this at all.

他压根儿不想去。

Tā yàgēnr bù xiǎng qù.

He simply didn't want to go.

grammar

压根儿 is almost always used with negatives (不, 没, 别). It intensifies the negation: 我不知道 (I don't know) → 我压根儿不知道 (I don't know at all / I never knew).

压根儿 is colloquial and common in northern Chinese speech. The erhua (儿) is typical of Beijing dialect.

压 yā

根 gēn

儿 ér