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# 难怪 nánguài

No wonder

难怪 marks that something now makes sense.

## In stories

伟、芳、静这样的字，用的人太多了，**难怪**张伟、王芳到处都是。

[中国人的名字有什么讲究？ · How do Chinese names work?](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/how-do-chinese-names-work#library-word-405-407) HSK 5

**难怪**很多外国朋友会疑惑：中国人最重要的节日，为什么每年都不固定？

[农历是怎么算的？ · How does the Chinese lunar calendar work?](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/how-does-the-chinese-lunar-calendar-work#library-word-41-43) HSK 6

**难怪**有人把“个”叫做“万能量词”。

[中文为什么要用量词？ · Why does Chinese have measure words?](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/why-does-chinese-have-measure-words#library-word-716-718) HSK 6

[Read 中国人的名字有什么讲究？](https://mandarinthewild.com/library/read/how-do-chinese-names-work#library-word-405-407)

## More patterns

- [难道…吗 surely not …? (rhetorical: …)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/nandao-ma)
- [把 + object + verb do something to … (and it ends up changed)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/ba)
- [verb (+ 了) + duration (for how long) for … (how long … lasts)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/duration)
- [verb + 得 + complement says how something is done (how well, how much, with what result)](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/v-de-c)
- […的时候 when …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/de-shihou)
- [verb1 + 着 + verb2 (doing 2 while/by doing 1) do something while …; do it by …](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-grammar/v-zhe-v)

## What does 难怪 (nánguài) mean in Chinese?

No wonder. 难怪 marks that something now makes sense.

## How common is 难怪?

It comes up in 3 readings of the 392 stories and articles in our free Library.

## Does it correct my mistakes?

No. It shows which patterns a text uses and what each one does; it doesn’t mark errors. Paste a sentence you wrote to see whether it uses the pattern you meant.

## More free tools

- [Chinese dictionary](https://mandarinthewild.com/chinese-dictionary)
- [Measure words](https://mandarinthewild.com/measure-words)
- [How hard is this text?](https://mandarinthewild.com/text-level)
- [Free Chinese stories](https://mandarinthewild.com/library)

Patterns found by our own parser; lines from our free Library.