要不得 yàobude intolerable Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 要不得 yào//bu//de intolerable intolerable; unacceptable; no good extremely Used after an adjective or verb to indicate an extreme degree, meaning "exceedingly" or "to no end" cannot want Potential resultative construction meaning one cannot want, cannot have, or should not have something Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.01 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
要不得 yào//bu//de intolerable intolerable; unacceptable; no good extremely Used after an adjective or verb to indicate an extreme degree, meaning "exceedingly" or "to no end" cannot want Potential resultative construction meaning one cannot want, cannot have, or should not have something Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.01 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
