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| Processed by: | richwarm (2025-05-04 22:01:06 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 82045 - submitted by 'braulio' >> as in: "操了，睡不着了现在" ------------------------- Editor: You are quite often submitting entries based on misunderstandings. Please try to reduce these by checking with ChatGPT, as I suggested previously, before submitting to us. 睡不着 is a resultative construction — specifically, the verb 睡 ("to sleep") followed by the resultative complement 着 ("succeeding in"), used here in the negative form with 不. This usage is already covered under the entries for 睡 and 着, and we also include 睡着 ("to fall asleep"), of which 睡不着 is simply the negative form. You might want to read up a bit on negative resultative constructions in Chinese grammar. As with other dictionaries, we don’t include separate entries for forms like 不着, 不开, etc., because these are grammatical combinations, not independent lexical items. Users are expected to have a basic understanding of such structures. |
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# - 不著 不着 [bu4 zhao2] /no need/need not/ # + 不著 不着 [[bu4 zhao2]] /no need/need not/can't; cannot/ |