| 怎么得了 |
zěn me dé liǎo |
how can this be? / what's to be done? / what an awful mess! |
| 怎 |
zěn |
how |
| 怎么 |
zěn me |
how? / what? / why? |
| 怎么 |
zěn me |
variant of 怎么 |
| 么 |
má |
exclamatory final particle |
| 么 |
ma |
interrogative final particle |
| 么 |
me |
suffix, used to form interrogative 什么, what?, indefinite 这么 thus, etc |
| 么 |
me |
variant of 么 |
| 得 |
dé |
to obtain / to get / to gain / to catch (a disease) / proper / suitable / proud / contented / to allow / to permit / ready / finished |
| 得 |
dè |
used in 得瑟 |
| 得 |
de |
structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc |
| 得 |
děi |
to have to / must / ought to / to need to |
| 得了 |
dé le |
all right! / that's enough! |
| 得了 |
dé liǎo |
(emphatically, in rhetorical questions) possible |
| 了 |
le |
(completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) |
| 了 |
liǎo |
to finish / (used with 得 or 不 after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 "cannot forget") / (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 or 不) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least / to understand clearly (variant of 了) |
| 了 |
liǎo |
(of eyes) bright / clear-sighted / to understand clearly |
| 了 |
liào |
unofficial variant of 瞭 |