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 , Subdomain: Health
    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

• 看得见(看得見) can see
• 值得称赞(值得稱讚) commendable
• 值得信赖(值得信賴) trustworthy
• 鱼与熊掌不可兼得(魚與熊掌不可兼得) the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius) / you must choose one or the other / you can't always get everything you want
• 取得 to acquire / to get / to obtain
• 得到 to get / to obtain
• 洋洋自得 immensely pleased with oneself / proud / complacent
• 有劳得奖(有勞得獎) a good dog deserves a bone
• 既得权(既得權) legal authority
• 得而复失(得而復失) to lose what one has just obtained
• 行得通 practicable / realizable / will work
• 习得性(習得性) acquired / learned
• 省得 to avoid / so as to save
• 一人得道，鸡犬升天(一人得道，雞犬升天) when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven / to ride on sb else's success / Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
• 见得(見得) to seem / to appear / (in a negative or interrogative sentence) to be sure
• 获得者(獲得者) recipient
• 不得已则斗(不得已則鬥) no choice other than to fight
• 值得品味 worth tasting / you should try it
• 相得益彰 to bring out the best in each other
• 鼠得克 difenacoum (anticoagulant and rodenticide)
• 舍得(捨得) to be willing to part with
• 彼得前书(彼得前書) First Epistle of Peter (in New Testament)
• 支付得起 to be able to pay / affordable
• 得寸进尺(得寸進尺) win an inch, want a foot / not satisfied with small gains / give him an inch, and he'll want a mile
• 瘆得慌(瘮得慌) frightening / frightened
• 悠然自得 carefree
• 不能得地之利 will not be able to take advantage of the terrain
• 千虑一得(千慮一得) a thousand tries leads to one success (idiom, humble expr.)
• 去得 can go
• 不得已 have no choice but to
• 要得 good / fine
• 所得税(所得稅) income tax
• 安闲自得(安閑自得) feeling comfortably at ease
• 鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利(鷸蚌相爭，漁翁得利) sandpiper and clam war together and the fisherman catches both
• 志得意满(志得意滿) fully content with one's achievements / complacent
• 他说得出来做得出来(他說得出來做得出來) he acts up to his words
• 争得(爭得) to obtain by an effort / to strive to get sth
• 得悉 to learn about / to be informed
• 得天独厚(得天獨厚) obtain favorable natural conditions by oneself / blessed by heaven / enjoying exceptional advantages / favored by nature
• 分得 to apportion / to assign a portion
• 玩儿得转(玩兒得轉) can handle it / up to the task
• 照得 let it be known
• 抵得 to undertake / to act as
• 好得 how can it be possible that

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