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
 
to know; to understand; (modal particle intensifying preceding clause); (completed action marker)
simp. and trad.
(得了)
anagram 了得

Pronunciation


Adverb

得了

  1. (in "verb + 得了" structure) capable of; can
    得了公園 / 得了公园   Chē jìn deliǎo gōngyuán.   The car can enter the park.
    大丈夫得了廳堂得了廚房 [MSC, trad.]
    大丈夫得了厅堂得了厨房 [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).

Pronunciation


Adjective

得了

  1. (usually, in rhetorical questions, or with negation) awful, can't handle (a situation)
    得了 / 得了   Zhè hái déliǎo?   This is unbelievable! (lit. Is this still controllable?)
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Pronunciation


Interjection

得了

  1. (swift) all right!; OK!; well then; yeah!
  2. (loud, usually interrupting someone's proposal or bragging) c'mon!; that's enough!
Synonyms
  • (Cantonese) 得喇
  • (all right): (more common) ()
  • (c'mon): (more common) 得了吧

Verb

得了

  1. to be finished; to be over; to be done with
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