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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不了
no thanks (used to politely but informally decline)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
no thanks (used to politely but informally decline)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不了 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不了 appears in 88 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
This is never going to end.
It doesn't mean anything!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不了.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不了.
Directly before
- 去不了7
- 赢不了4
- 来不了3
- 吃不了3
- 开不了2
Directly after
- 不了了5
- 不了我4
- 不了床2
- 不了她2
- 不了你1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 不了
What does 不了 mean in Chinese?
不了 (bùle) means no thanks (used to politely but informally decline).
How do you pronounce 不了?
不了 is pronounced bùle. It also has the reading bùliǎo.
Is 不了 an HSK word?
不了 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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