Examples of using "Potei" in a sentence and their english translations:
I could not subdue the desire to laugh.
That meant: no turning on a light switch,
- I could not but laugh.
- I couldn't stop myself from laughing.
- He made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
- She made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
I couldn't enter because the door was closed.
My leg got hurt, so I could not walk.
- I could only feel how the knife buried itself in my back.
- I could feel nothing but the knife as it plunged into my back.
- For some reason, I'm wide awake and can't fall asleep.
- I was somehow so awake that I couldn't sleep.
I couldn't help them.