没尽没了

[Fred0]

马车所经过的路，我全不认识。这条大街长又长，好像前面没尽没了。

 

I don't understand the meaning of 没尽没了。 I take 没尽 to mean inexhaustible, and 没了 to me dead or "not to exist." But what do they mean together.

 

Thanks.

[陳德聰]

了 can be read as liǎo, and means to finish/complete.

 

沒盡沒了 means never ending

[imron]

This '了' is not le, but liǎo, it means 'end; finish'.

 

See also 没完没了 - endlessly; without end.

 

Incidentally, it seems you are reading a novel, and encountering various different new words and usage patterns.  Rather than starting a whole bunch of separate threads for each item, it might be better to start a single thread about the book（this would be the place to do it).

 

The benefit of doing this is that other people reading the book will have a single place of reference for vocab they might encounter while reading.

[tobydog]

"没尽没了"  means a road seems to have no end and keeps extending . It can only be used to describe a road/track/alley/pathway/trail and can't be used to describe other things or people or objects .

This phrase would be weird if used in daily life , it  only appears in early modern literary works . It is weird in both oral Chinese and literary works , you can regard this expression as obsolete .

To describe an endless road you can use "没有尽头" ,"没有尽头" can not only to describe a road , but also in stuffs .

e.g.这条乡间小路蜿蜒曲折，似乎没有尽头。e.g. 身为一名科学家，我深知对于浩瀚宇宙的探索是没有尽头的。

To describe something/someone keeps bothering you , you can use "没完没了"(never finish never end)  and it's not proper in describing a road .

e.g.我不搭理你，你还没完没了了？ e.g.政府机关办事效率太低，总是要开各种没完没了的证明文件。

[tobydog]

If you want to learn Chinese ，reading such books like My Memories of Old Beijing of Lin Hai yin wouldn't help a lot , the expressions of those early modern authors are kind of weird and we barely use those expressions nowadays ， you should watch some news or read some magazines , they  have normal common expressions of Chinese  .