只能

HSK 3#874 by frequencyradical 口

zhǐ néng["v"]

can only; obliged to do sth; to have no other choice

Examples

他只能看着。

He could only watch.

你只能听天由命。

You can only let the matter take its own course.

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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.