不了

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bù le

no thanks (used to politely but informally decline)

bù liǎo

(as a resultative verb suffix) unable to (do sth); (pattern: {verb} + 個|个[ge5] + ~) without end; incessantly

Examples

你不了解。

You don't understand.

我走不了。

I can't walk.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.