Read Edit View history 不能 bùnéng cannot Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 不能 bùnéng cannot adverb unable to or impossible to do something due to lack of ability or circumstances 我今天生病了，不能去上班。 wǒ jīntiān shēngbìng le, bùnéng qù shàngbān. I'm sick today, so I can't go to work. must not adverb prohibited from doing something; not allowed or should not 这里是禁烟区，你不能在这里抽烟。 zhèlǐ shì jìnyānqū, nǐ bùnéng zài zhèlǐ chōuyān. This is a non-smoking area; you cannot smoke here. Frequency Movie subtitles 268.9 per million appears in 68% of films Written text 557.3 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
不能 bùnéng cannot adverb unable to or impossible to do something due to lack of ability or circumstances 我今天生病了，不能去上班。 wǒ jīntiān shēngbìng le, bùnéng qù shàngbān. I'm sick today, so I can't go to work. must not adverb prohibited from doing something; not allowed or should not 这里是禁烟区，你不能在这里抽烟。 zhèlǐ shì jìnyānqū, nǐ bùnéng zài zhèlǐ chōuyān. This is a non-smoking area; you cannot smoke here. Frequency Movie subtitles 268.9 per million appears in 68% of films Written text 557.3 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)