第二年第二百七十天

[nnozomi]

语法
V + 得起/不起, "can/can't afford to X" (part 3)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Advanced_potential_complements

词汇
让, "give way" (why is it glossed like that? "make/let" seems appropriate) (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/

Guardian:
这个责任你负得起吗, can you (afford to) take this responsibility?
可我赌不起, but I can't afford to bet
放心，有老师在，不会让你有事的, don't worry, I'm here, I won't let anything happen to you

Me:
我等不起结果，一定要马上去。
让我看看报纸。

Comments

[trobadora]

让, "give way" (why is it glossed like that? "make/let" seems appropriate)

I think this is a separate (if related) meaning of 让?

[grayswandir]

I agree -- this is actually the usage I know better, as in 让路, 让步, 退让. I think I've also heard 让 used for yielding/conceding to someone else in a competition. (Cantonese uses different words for "make" and "let," so these all seem like different meanings to me!)

[trobadora]

Oh, good to know about the compound verbs, that makes sense!

I think generally 让 as "let" etc. is essentially an auxiliary verb, but as "yield/concede/give way" it functions as a full verb on its own.

[nnozomi]

I think generally 让 as "let" etc. is essentially an auxiliary verb, but as "yield/concede/give way" it functions as a full verb on its own.
Seems to be the case! I know it that way in the 繁体字 form as 讓, but the characters look so different I never think of them as the same thing...

[trobadora]

Whoever came up with the simplified version for that really went all out! *g*

[nnozomi]

It's definitely one of the Japanese characters I've never learned to write...

[grayswandir]

Hah, yes! I've yet to actually learn 让 (or rather, I keep relearning it and then forgetting what it is again). I did see this on Wiktionary while copy-pasting it, though, which I thought was interesting and at least explains why it ended up like that:

让: "Simplification derived from various Wu dialects, in which 上 and 讓／让 are homophonous."

[trobadora]

让: "Simplification derived from various Wu dialects, in which 上 and 讓／让 are homophonous."

Oh, that's cool to know!

[nnozomi]

让: "Simplification derived from various Wu dialects, in which 上 and 讓／让 are homophonous."
Huh! Who knew, thank you for finding that. (I wonder if anyone's written anything up on "r" vs "sh" pronunciations in Chinese--I keep hearing "r" instead of "sh" in things like 不是 and 晚上好, for instance.)