안되다

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to be not allowed

🚫 안 (not) + 되다 (to become/work) = to not work out, not be allowed

안 is the short negator meaning not. 되다 means to become, to work out, or to be OK. Together: it does not work, or it is not OK. The everyday form 안 돼 is how Koreans say no way or you can't.

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