未曾

wèicéng

adverb #10,743

Meanings

HSK 3

我未曾想过会在这里遇到你。

Wǒ wèicéng xiǎng guò huì zài zhèlǐ yùdào nǐ.

I never imagined I would run into you here.

HSK 4

这种事他未曾经历过。

Zhèzhǒng shì tā wèicéng jīnglì guò.

He has never experienced anything like this.

未曾 is more literary and formal than 没有...过 or 从未. It's common in written Chinese and formal speech.

grammar

未曾 can directly precede a verb without 过: 未曾想过 = never thought, 未曾见过 = never seen.

未 wèi

曾 céng