HSK 7–9 grammar · adverb
偏偏
偏偏 — of all things; deliberately
Pattern
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( ) can be left out · other words may come before, between and after
How it works
偏偏 marks a perverse coincidence — the one thing you did not want, happening at the worst moment — or a wilful refusal to do as asked. Both readings carry the speaker's irritation.
Examples
要出门，偏偏下起雨来。
Yào chūmén, piānpiān xià qǐ yǔ lái.
Just as we were going out, it had to start raining.
我让他别去，他偏偏要去。
Wǒ ràng tā bié qù, tā piānpiān yào qù.
I told him not to go, but he insisted on going anyway.
Related
See it in a story
In the app, 偏偏 is underlined wherever it appears in the stories you read, and practised with sentences from them. Free.