能不能请你拿着这端?

Will you please hold this edge?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 Néng surname Neng
=1 néng
  1. can
  2. to be able to
  3. might possibly
  4. ability
  5. (physics) energy
=1 nài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to bear; to withstand”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (“to bear; to withstand”)
=1 tái
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
  2. alternative form of (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
=1 tài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
  2. alternative form of / (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
=1 nái
  1. (obsolete) mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
  2. mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
=1 tāi
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
  2. only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
=1 xióng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (xióng, “bear”)
  2. alternative form of (xióng, “bear”)
2 不能 néng
  1. cannot
  2. must not
  3. should not
3 qǐng
  1. to ask
  2. to invite
  3. please (do sth)
  4. to treat (to a meal etc)
  5. to request
=4 you (informal, as opposed to courteous nín)
=4 you (Note: In Taiwan, is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, is used to address both males and females.)
=5 old variant of
=5 variant of
=5
  1. to hold
  2. to seize
  3. to catch
  4. to apprehend
  5. to take
  6. (used in the same way as : to mark the following noun as a direct object)
=6 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=6 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=6 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=6 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
=7 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=7 zhèi (coll.) this
=8 duān
  1. (bound form) tip; end; extremity
  2. (bound form) aspect; facet
  3. (bound form) upright; proper
  4. to hold sth level with both hands; to carry
  5. to eliminate; to wipe out
=8 duān
  1. old variant of duān
  2. start
  3. origin