不能

#159 by frequency

bù néng

cannot; must not; should not

Examples

我不能说。

I can't say.

不能这样！

That can't be!

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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.