得 de

1. de particle potential marker
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Structural Particle 结构助词
   Notes: In this use, 得 is a sentence particle used after a verb to show possibility. 得 must be placed after a verb or adjective and before a complement of degree (ABC 'de' 得 sp; Kroll 2015 '得' 3; NCCED de '得' 1).
2. dé verb to obtain; to get; to gain; to attain; to win
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: The verb 得 may be used before a noun or pronoun or with a following verb. 得 is used in this sense in both literary and modern Chinese (ABC 'dé' 得 v 1; Giles 1892 '得'; Kroll 2015 '得' 1; NCCED dé '得' 1; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 122). For example, in literary Chinese, 是故君子有大道，必忠信以得之 'Thus we see that the sovereign [junzi] has a great course to pursue. He must show entire self-devotion and sincerity to attain it.' (Book of Rites, Great Learning 禮記‧大學, trans. by Legge 1885)
3. děi adverb must; ought to
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
   Notes: (ABC 'děi' 得 aux; NCCED děi '得' 2)
4. děi verb to want to; to need to
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
   Notes: (ABC 'děi' 得 v 1; NCCED děi '得' 1)
5. děi auxiliary verb must; ought to
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
   Notes: In this sense, 得 is an auxiliary verb expressing obligation. The negative form is 不用 or 不要. It began to be used in this sense from the Tang (ABC 'děi' 得 v 2; NCCED děi '得' 3; Norman 1988, p. 125).
6. dé foreign de
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Foreign Language
   Notes: Used to transliterate foreign names
7. de infix infix potential marker
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
   Notes: 得 is one of the two infixes in Chinese, the other being 不 'not'. For example, 看得见 'can see' and 找得到 'can find' (ABC 'de' 得 infix; Kroll 2015 '得' 2; NCCED de '得' 2; Sun 2006, loc. 728).
8. dé verb to result in
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'dé' 得 v 2; NCCED dé '得' 9)
9. dé verb to be proper; to fit; to suit
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'dé' 得 v 3; NCCED dé '得' 4)
10. dé verb to be satisfied
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (ABC 'dé' 得 v 4; NCCED dé '得' 5)
11. dé verb to be finished
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Spoken Language
    Notes: (ABC 'dé' 得 v 5; NCCED dé '得' 6)
12. de particle result of degree
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words , Concept: Structural Particle 结构助词
    Notes: In this use, 得 is a sentence particle used after a verb to show effect or degree (NCCED de '得' 3). For example, 他都知道得清清楚楚 'he knows everything very clearly.' (Ye Shengtao, 1999, p. 6)
13. de particle marks completion of an action
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: In this use in spoken Chinese, 得 is a sentence particle used after a verb to show completion of an action (NCCED de '得' 4).
14. děi adjective satisfying
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: (NCCED děi '得' 4)
15. dé verb to contract
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: a disease (NCCED dé '得' 2)
16. dé particle marks permission or possibility
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: (NCCED dé '得' 3)
17. dé particle expressing frustration
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Spoken Language
    Notes: (NCCED dé '得' 8)
18. dé verb to hear
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: To obtain information by hearing it (Kroll 2015 '得' 1a)
19. dé verb to have; there is
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '得' 4)
20. dé verb marks time passed
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In this sense 得 is used before a time word (Kroll 2015 '得' 5)

Contained in

• 佛得角埃斯库多(佛得角埃斯庫多) Cape Verde escudo
• 吃得住 to be able to bear
• 引得 index
• 罪有应得(罪有應得) guilty and deserves to be punished; entirely appropriate chastisement
• 磨得开(磨得開) unembarrassed; without fear of impairing personal relation
• 成败得失(成敗得失) lit. success and failure, the gains and losses (idiom); fig. to weigh up various factors
• 失而复得(失而復得) to lose and then regain something
• 要得 good; fine
• 省得 to avoid; so as to save ; to understand
• 岳得尔歌(嶽得爾歌) to yodel
• 得过且过(得過且過) satisfied to just get by
• 获得者(獲得者) recipient
• 得票 vote-getting
• 好得 how can it be possible that
• 得意洋洋 joyfully satisfied; to be immensely proud of oneself; proudly; an air of complacency
• 轩轩自得(軒軒自得) to be delighted with oneself
• 不得要领(不得要領) to fail to grasp the main points
• 过得(過得) How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 過得去|过得去, can get by; tolerably well
• 舍不得(捨不得) to hate to do something; to begrudge
• 抵得 to undertake; to act as
• 得着(得著) to obtain
• 活得不耐烦(活得不耐煩) to be tired of living; to be asking for trouble
• 没得说(沒得說) really good; excellent
• 天晓得(天曉得) Heaven knows!
• 洋洋自得 immensely pleased with oneself; proud; complacent
• 万不得已(萬不得已) only when absolutely essential; as a last resort
• 得分 to score
• 利得 profit; gain
• 优劣得所(優劣得所) progressively less able officers will be asisgned to their proper place
• 得意 to get one's wish
• 差得多 fall short by a large amount
• 习得性无助感(習得性無助感) learned helplessness
• 得天独厚(得天獨厚) obtain favorable natural conditions by oneself; blessed by heaven; enjoying exceptional advantages; favored by nature
• 得到 to get; to obtain
• 靠得住 reliable
• 哭笑不得 not to know whether to laugh or cry; both funny and extremely embarrassing
• 以其道得之 to obtain in the proper way
• 值得品味 worth tasting; you should try it
• 少不得 cannot be avoided; cannot do without
• 佳人难再得(佳人難再得) The beautiful woman is difficult to obtain again
• 彼得后书(彼得後書) Second Epistle of Peter (in New Testament)
• 上不得台盘(上不得臺盤) too uncouth to appear in public; unfit for a public role
• 得无(得無) is it or not?
• 逍遥自得(逍遙自得) doing as one pleases; foot-loose and fancy free
• 禁得住 can be restrained; can be tolerated
• 舍不得孩子套不住狼(捨不得孩子套不住狼) one who is not prepared to risk his child will never catch the wolf
• 使得 to make; to cause ; usable; workable; feasible; doable
• 既得权(既得權) legal authority
• 打狗还得看主人(打狗還得看主人) when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master

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得克萨斯 、 彼得堡

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