不得

HSK 6#1580 by frequency

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must not; may not; to be not allowed

Examples

她不得不哭。

She could not refrain from tears.

我哭笑不得。

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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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.