できない

Japanese

Verb

できない (rōmaji dekinai)

  1. negative of できる
    1. incapable, impossible
      私 (わたし)にこの傷 (きず)を消 (け)すことはできない。
      Watashi ni kono kizu o kesu koto wa dekinai.
      I am incapable of erasing this wound.
    2. incompetent
      できない社 (しゃ)員 (いん)
      dekinai shain
      an incompetent clerk
    3. ineligible
      65歳未満 (ろくじゅうごさいみまん)の者 (もの)は年 (ねん)金 (きん)をもらうことができない。
      Rokujū-go-sai-miman no mono wa nenkin o morau koto ga dekinai.
      People who are under sixty-five years old are ineligible for receiving a pension.

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