couldn't have

頻度
難易度
タグ CEFR-B2
phrase
B2

used to say that something that happened in the past was definitely not possible

She couldn't have broken the window; she was at school when it happened.

彼女が窓を壊したはずがない。起こったとき、彼女は学校にいた。

translation

phr. 〜はありえない

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