得 de dé děi

1. de particle potential marker
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词 , 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 虚词
   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 虚词
   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 虚词
   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 外语
   Notes: Used to transliterate foreign names
7. de infix infix potential marker
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词
   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 口语
    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 虚词 , 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 虚词
    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 虚词
    Notes: (NCCED děi '得' 4)
15. dé verb to contract
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Health 健康
    Notes: a disease (NCCED dé '得' 2)
16. dé particle marks permission or possibility
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words 虚词
    Notes: (NCCED dé '得' 3)
17. dé particle expressing frustration
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Spoken Language 口语
    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

• 不当得利(不當得利) unjust enrichment
• 取得 to acquire / to get / to obtain
• 得到 to get / to obtain
• 赢得(贏得) to win / to gain
• 获得(獲得) to obtain / to receive / to get
• 所得税(所得稅) income tax
• 安得 how can it be?
• 不得 must not / may not / not be allowed / cannot ; must not / may not / not be allowed / cannot
• 懂得 to understand / to know / to comprehend
• 得知 to find out / to know / to learn of
• 所得 what one acquires / one's gains
• 得了 to be finished ; expressing doubt ; awful ; that wil do / enough! ; expressing shock or surprise
• 觉得(覺得) to feel ; to think
• 使得 to make / to cause ; usable / workable / feasible / doable
• 难得(難得) difficult to obtain ; valuable
• 夺得(奪得) to achieve by force / to seize
• 记得(記得) to remember
• 值得 to be worth / to deserve
• 显得(顯得) to seem / to look / to appear
• 得很 very
• 不得不 cannot but / have to
• 不得了 extremely / exceedingly
• 来得及(來得及) there is still time
• 认得(認得) to recognize / to remember / to know
• 晓得(曉得) to know
• 心得 experience or skill gained through study or work
• 不见得(不見得) not necessarily / not likely
• 不由得 can not help / cannot but
• 得病 to fall ill / to contract a disease
• 得意 to get one's wish
• 对得起(對得起) to be worthy of / to not to let somebody down
• 多劳多得(多勞多得) work more and get more
• 怪不得 no wonder
• 恨不得 wishing one could do something / to hate to be unable / itching to do something
• 免得 so as to avoid
• 舍不得(捨不得) to hate to do something / to begrudge
• 舍得(捨得) to be willing to part with
• 省得 to avoid / so as to save
• 得罪 to offend
• 只得 have no alternative but to / be obliged to
• 总得(總得) must / have to / be bound to
• 不得已 have no choice but to
• 得不偿失(得不償失) the gains do not make up for the losses
• 得力 able / capable / competent / efficient
• 得以 to be able to
• 顾不得(顧不得) unable to deal with
• 求得 to seek
• 自得 to be self satisfied ; to obtain for oneself
• 憋得慌 to be completely exasperated
• 必得 must

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