难免 (hard to avoid / bound to)
IntroducedReassure a beginner, then help
- A teacher says beginners新手bound to难免make mistakes出错。 — mistakes are hard for beginners to avoid. The teacher is recognising a common difficulty.
- The next step can still be to check and correct the work. Recognising the difficulty does not mean every error should stay.
A teacher reassures beginners that mistakes are normal. What does 新手难免出错。 communicate?
The speaker treats mistakes as difficult to avoid. 难免 is an ordinary expectation, not a mathematical guarantee that every beginner must make a mistake in every task. A careful person can still avoid a particular error.
Name the difficult-to-avoid result
- Use bound to难免 + result or action phrase: the first time第一次go on stage上台，bound to难免nervous (here)紧张。 — feeling nervous on a first stage appearance is hard to avoid.
- Keep the situation in view: first-time performing supplies a reason for the expectation. bound to难免 itself supplies no number or percentage.
beginners新手bound to难免make mistakes出错。
Use the lesson target 难免: Mistakes are hard for beginners to avoid: 新手 ____ 出错。
难免 + VP = bound to / hard to avoid: 新手难免出错.
Keep expectation separate from a count
- In a fictional practice record, twelve beginners try a task and three make an error; nine do not. Those numbers come from the record.
- The teacher can acknowledge mistakes as hard to avoid without claiming that all twelve must fail. A learner who succeeds does not turn the phrase into a numerical rule.
难免 treats the outcome as…
难免 presents an expectation of difficulty, not a guarantee that every possible instance must occur.
A fictional record has twelve beginners; three made an error. How many did not make an error in that task?
Twelve minus three is nine. The record supplies this count, not 难免.
Use the named situation
- 路上车很多，bound to难免can / will会晚一点。 presents heavy traffic as a reason to expect some lateness. It does not specify ten minutes.
- A different route with little traffic needs its own assessment. Do not transfer the first route’s reason to every journey.
新手难免出错 means a teacher is forbidden to ask beginners to correct mistakes.
Acknowledging that mistakes are hard to avoid is compatible with asking for correction.
新手难免出错 specifies that exactly half of the beginners will make an error.
The expression supplies no numerical rate. Actual records are needed for a count.
Heavy traffic on route A supports 难免会晚一点. Route B has little traffic. What follows about B?
Keep the stated reason with its route. No exact number of minutes was supplied for either route.
Difficulty does not remove responsibility
- bound to难免make mistakes出错 describes an expectation. to ask请inspection检查variant of 并并correct (an error)改正mistaken错误。 asks for checking and correction; the two ideas can fit together.
- A speaker may reassure someone or acknowledge a problem. The phrase alone does not prove the mistake was harmless or that correction is forbidden.
Match each statement to what it does.
Expectation, an instruction and a measured count serve different purposes.
Read a bounded expectation
- Name the circumstances and the result treated as difficult to avoid. Keep actual counts and waiting times tied to explicit evidence.
- Do not turn bound to难免 into every person, every time, a fixed probability or permission to ignore the result.
Read the full reference: HSK 5 grammar — Verb phrases.
Recall the situation: Reassure a beginner, then help. Decide what the speaker wanted to communicate. Close the examples. Say a Mandarin response, then write it in Chinese. Explain briefly in English what the lesson’s pattern adds. Compare with the model, then change one detail and try again.
This is supported productive practice. Compare meaning and structure; your answer need not copy the model. A partner or teacher must hear the spoken response to comment on pronunciation.