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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
没法
at a loss
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
at a loss
02
unable to do anything about it
03
to have no choice
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 没法 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 没法 appears in 51 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom can't get his car started.
I'm afraid you can't marry her.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 没法.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 没法.
Directly before
- 我没法17
- 你没法4
- 他们没法2
- 汤姆没法2
- 就没法2
Directly after
- 没法跟2
- 没法相信2
- 没法发动2
- 没法再2
- 没法和2
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 没法
What does 没法 mean in Chinese?
没法 (méifǎ) means at a loss.
How do you pronounce 没法?
没法 is pronounced méifǎ.
Is 没法 an HSK word?
没法 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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