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怎么得了

zěn me dé liǎo

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Definitions

  1. 1. how can this be?
  2. 2. what's to be done?
  3. 3. what an awful mess!

Child Words of 怎么得了

得了
dé liǎo

(emphatically, in rhetorical questions) possible

了
le

(completed action marker)

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

么
má

exclamatory final particle

得了
dé le

all right!

怎么
zěn me

how?

怎
zěn

how

么
ma

interrogative final particle

了
liǎo

(of eyes) bright

得
dé

to obtain