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了
Mandarin: le5
Definitions
  1. 1 (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
  2. 2 (completed action marker)
  3. 3 to finish
  4. 4 to end
  5. 5 to settle
  6. 6 a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
  7. 7 a verb particle indicating possibility
  8. 8 to put in
  9. 9 to take away
  10. 10 to escape
  11. 11 flee in secret
  12. 12 # adapted from cc-cedict
Words containing 了
井水乾了
the well has dried up
一走了之
to leave as a solution to one's problems; to solve one's poblems by avoiding the
撞了就跑
hit-and-run
不了了之
settle something by not settling it
糗大了
to make a fool of oneself
把握不了
unable to grasp
死了
to be dead
沒完沒了
there's no end to (sth.); endless; never-ending
末了
final; end
算了
that's settled; enough already; forget about it. | Cant.: 算數
了不起
amazing; terrific; extraordinary [粵]: 巴閉, 犀利
罷了
(modal particle) (indicator of limit at the end of a sentence when making a poin
餘情未了
to still have feelings for sb. that have not subsided
了哥
the mynah / myna bird. Mand.: 八哥
牙擦擦了哥
the talking mynah bird toy contains 20-30 short audio messages in Cantonese, eac
怎麼得了
where will it all end; what a terrible thing it would be; this is one hell of a
敷衍了事
muddle through one's work
了番出嚟
to dig it back out; to fish it back out; to bring up something from the past [co
跛腳了哥
an incompetent person
不了
[1] unable to, [2] without end
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