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得了
得了
Chinese
get; obtain; gain; proper; suitable; proud; contented; allow; permit; ready; finished; a sentence particle used after a verb to show effect; degree or possibility; to have to; must; ought to; to need to
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to know; to understand; (modal particle intensifying preceding clause); (completed action marker)
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simp. and trad. (得了) |
得 | 了 |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄜ˙ ㄌㄧㄠˇ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .deleau
- IPA (key): /d̥ə li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: dak1 liu5
- Yale: dāk líuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: dak7 liu5
- IPA (key): /tɐk̚⁵ liːu̯¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Adverb
得了
- (in "verb + 得了" structure) capable of; can
- 車進得了公園。 / 车进得了公园。 ― Chē jìn deliǎo gōngyuán. ― The car can enter the park.
- 大丈夫上得了廳堂,下得了廚房。 [MSC, trad.]
- 大丈夫上得了厅堂,下得了厨房。 [MSC, simp.]
- Dàzhàngfū shàng deliǎo tīngtáng, xià deliǎo chúfáng. [Pinyin]
- A true man can go up to the hall (meeting noble guests), and can go down to the kitchen (handling toils are chores).
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄜˊ ㄌㄧㄠˇ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: derleau
- IPA (key): /tɤ³⁵ li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: dak1 liu5
- Yale: dāk líuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: dak7 liu5
- IPA (key): /tɐk̚⁵ liːu̯¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Adjective
得了
- (usually, in rhetorical questions, or with negation) awful, can't handle (a situation)
See also
- 不得了 (bùdéliǎo)
- 了得
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄜˊ ㄌㄜ˙
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: der.lhe
- IPA (key): /tɤ³⁵ lə³/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: dak1 liu5
- Yale: dāk líuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: dak7 liu5
- IPA (key): /tɐk̚⁵ liːu̯¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Interjection
得了
- (swift) all right!; OK!; well then; yeah!
- (loud, usually interrupting someone's proposal or bragging) c'mon!; that's enough!
Synonyms
- (Cantonese) 得喇!
- (all right): (more common) 得 (dé)!
- (c'mon): (more common) 得了吧!
Verb
得了