你不能去？為甚麼？

You can't attend? Why not?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 你 nǐ you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您 nín)
=1 你 nǐ you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
2 不能 bùnéng
  1. cannot
  2. must not
  3. should not
3 去 qù
  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
=4 為 wéi
  1. as (in the capacity of)
  2. to take sth as
  3. to act as
  4. to serve as
  5. to behave as
  6. to become
  7. to be
  8. to do
  9. by (in the passive voice)
=4 為 wèi
  1. because of
  2. for
  3. to
=5 甚 shén variant of 什 shén
=5 甚 shèn
  1. excessive; undue
  2. to exceed; to be more than
  3. very; extremely
  4. (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. shén)
=6 麼 má exclamatory final particle
=6 麼 ma interrogative final particle
=6 麼 me suffix, used to form interrogative 什么 shénme, what?, indefinite 这么 zhème thus, etc
=6 麼 mó
  1. tiny
  2. insignificant