A2 · Grammar reference · ASGI2KHC
Inability with "mei banfa"
If you are trying to express that something is impossible, you can use the phrase 没办法 (méi bànfǎ). 没办法 (méi bànfǎ) essentially means "there is no way," and while it works just fine by itself, it can also come before verbs.
- Keywords
- 办法 · 没
- Used for
- Describing actions · Expressing impossibility · Indicating conditions
- Classification
- Verbs · HSK3
Examples (10)
今天太忙了，中午没办法出去吃饭。
他没带手机，没办法给我打电话。
没有水，我们没办法洗衣服。
这里太吵了，我没办法工作。
他不开门，所以她没办法进去。
你不会说中文，没办法在我们公司工作。
事情太多了，我今天没办法做完。
老板不同意，我没办法帮你。
这里没有wifi，我没办法上网。
他很笨，我没办法跟他一起工作。
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Summary, structure, classification, and adapted sentence examples draw from the AllSet Learning Chinese Grammar Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; changes were made. This noncommercial reference is based on an October 2023 snapshot.
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