I couldn't let it go.
放不下
to have no room to put sth
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Meaning and common use
to have no room to put sth
to be unable to let go
How 放不下 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 放不下 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
That's too small a box to hold all these things.
This table is fine except in one respect - it will not fit into my room.
Words that keep company with 放不下.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 放不下.
Directly before
- 房间放不下1
- 我放不下1
Directly after
- 放不下这里1
- 放不下它1
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.
About 放不下
What does 放不下 mean in Chinese?
放不下 (fàngbuxià) means to have no room to put sth.
How do you pronounce 放不下?
放不下 is pronounced fàngbuxià.
Is 放不下 an HSK word?
放不下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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