亟待【jídài】

urgently needs, in urgent need of, pressing, must be dealt with, jidai

Says something urgently needs dealing with, "is in urgent need of", before a two-syllable verb. It is written: 。 is "this problem urgently needs solving".

HSK 5

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Structure

[subject] + 亟待 + [verb]

亟待 + [verb] + 的 + [noun]

Description

亟待 says the subject needs something done to it, and soon. Like 有待, it takes a two-syllable verb, and the subject is the thing to be dealt with. It belongs to news, official reports and editorials.

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This problem urgently needs solving.

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The roads in the old town are in urgent need of repair.

亟 is a rare character, read jí, and means "urgently". Outside 亟待 and 亟需 "urgently need" learners hardly meet it.

Before a noun

亟待 + verb + 的 makes a modifier: "the problem that urgently needs solving".

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Traffic is a problem in the city's development that urgently needs solving.

亟待 or 有待

有待 says something hasn't been done yet. 亟待 adds that it can't wait.

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It remains to be seen how well this method works.

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Conditions at schools in the mountains need improving urgently.

Mistakes

亟待 is not an adjective. It needs a verb after it, and 很 can't go in front.

× 这个问题很亟待 → 这个问题亟待解决

Examples

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This problem urgently needs solving.

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The roads in the old town are in urgent need of repair.

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Traffic is a problem in the city's development that urgently needs solving.

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Conditions at schools in the mountains need improving urgently.

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These old rules are in urgent need of revision.

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The school's equipment urgently needs replacing.

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The river pollution must be dealt with urgently.

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This forest urgently needs protecting.

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Rural education still faces many difficulties that urgently need resolving.

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This management system is in urgent need of improvement.

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False information online urgently needs cleaning up.

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This old bridge urgently needs repairs.

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