难道说

難道說
nándàoshuō
phrase #27,492

Meanings

  1. 1 do you mean to say…?
  2. 2 could it really be that…?
  3. 3 is it possible that…?

Examples

Nándàoshuō nǐ zhēn de bù zhīdào zhè jiàn shì?
Do you mean to say you really didn't know about this?
Nándàoshuō tā yīzhí zài piàn wǒmen?
Could it really be that he has been deceiving us all along?

Tips

grammar
难道说 is an emphatic variant of 难道 (nándào). Both introduce a rhetorical question expecting a negative answer. Adding softens the tone slightly and is more colloquial. The expected answer is usually 'no, surely not'.

Stroke Order

nán
dào
shuō