压根儿

壓根兒

yàgēnr

adverb #18,167

Meanings

HSK 1

他压根儿不想去。

Tā yàgēnr bù xiǎng qù.

He simply didn't want to go.

HSK 3

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.

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