晓得usage

[Pizzamaster]

I just downloaded LTL Deck on Anki and one of the first sentences I saw was "我不晓得“. When is this used over 知道? I've never heard it before. Trying to see if these sets of deck's are worth studying.

[Lu]

It's a really normal word, but perhaps it's a regional thing and more used in the south. I think I first heard it regularly once I came to Taiwan.

[Guest realmayo]

Some places you might also hear a 我晓不得, if you're lucky.

 

[889]

Colloquial: a bit out of place in formal written Chinese, or even a formal speech.

[幽默感]

I'll agree with the folks above.

Pleco says "same as 知道 zhīdào. Only used in colloquial Chinese"

My wife is from Jiangsu province and she says that 晓得 is a common word in Shanghainese.

So presumably since it's colloquial, compared to 知道, 晓得 is not a very frequently used word on TV or in movies.

Take for example in the SUBTLEX-CH-WF word frequency list (based on movie subtitles), 知道 is ranked the 26th most frequent word, and 晓得 is ranked at 3649th.

 

[Tomsima]

In Hubei it's used a lot colloquially at the end of sentences, like the English 'know what I mean? ya know?' 晓得吧