What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?
Source: tatoeba (1737)
Cannot
//ˈkæ(n.)nɑt//
Synonyms for "cannot" (3 found)
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Translations
62 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- عَجَزَ verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- لَا يَسْتَطِيع verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Bulgarian
1 entries- не може verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Catalan
1 entries- no poder verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- e.g.: ...不了 verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- 不會 /不会 verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- 不能 verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- 不行 verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Czech
1 entries- nemoct verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Danish
1 entries- kan ikke verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Dutch
1 entries- niet kunnen verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Esperanto
2 entries- ne povi verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- ne rajtas verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Finnish
2 entries- ei osaa verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- ei voi verb (cannot — see also can, not)
French
1 entries- ne pas pouvoir verb (cannot — see also can, not)
German
1 entries- nicht können verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Italian
1 entries- non potere verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- cyaan verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Japanese
4 entries- ...してはいけない verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- ...してはならない verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- ...できない verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- ...駄目である verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Kapampangan
3 entries- ali verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- e verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- masakit verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Khmer
1 entries- មិនអាច verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Korean
3 entries- ...수 없다 verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- 못 verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- 못하다 verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Latin
4 entries- nequeo verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- nescio verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- non licet verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- non posse verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Latvian
2 entries- nespēj verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- nevar verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kan ikke verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Old Turkic
1 entries- 𐰆𐰢𐰀 verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Pitcairn-Norfolk
1 entries- kaa verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Polish
1 entries- nie móc verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Portuguese
1 entries- não pode verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Russian
2 entries- не мо́чь verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- нельзя́ verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Slovak
3 entries- nebyť schopný verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- nedokázať verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- nemôcť verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Spanish
1 entries- no poder verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Swedish
2 entries- kan icke verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- kan inte verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Thai
2 entries- ...ไม่เป็น verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- ...ไม่ได้ verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Turkish
2 entries- ama verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- eme verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Vietnamese
1 entries- có thể không verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Welsh
3 entries- dim gallu verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- ffili verb (cannot — see also can, not)
- methu verb (cannot — see also can, not)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
You don't marry someone you can live with — you marry the person whom you cannot live without.
Source: tatoeba (1853)
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Source: tatoeba (1856)
I cannot dance one single step of Salsa.
Source: tatoeba (2005)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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