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Grammar detail: verb て form + はいけません
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verb て form
+ はいけません
means must not do something
Note that although in Japanese this is the inverse of 〜なくてはいけません, which means 'must do' or 'have to do', the English is not directly the inverse, which would be 'do not have to do'.
The plain form is 〜てはいけない, and the more informal version is 〜ちゃいけない.
It is technically correct to use ては
い
行
けません, as this form is actually based on the potential form of い
行
く (you could think of the literal translation as 'cannot go (if ~)'). However, this is very uncommon in practice - in modern Japanese it is customary to write auxiliary and compound forms with kana. For more on this issue see using kanji or kana for grammarKanji used in this grammar
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