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The sentence 「ここでこなんことをしてられない！」comes from a book I'm reading. I have no idea
where してられない comes from. My guess is that it's some colloquial potential form
of する or something (there's a song named じっとしてられない), but I might be completely
wrong. Can someone please help? Thank you in advance.
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What does 「ここでこなんことをしてられない！」mean?
First of all, 「こなん」 should be 「こんな」 unless it is in a dialect I am unfamiliar
with.

> 「ここでこんなことをしてられない！」

「してられない」 is the informal form of 「して **い** られない」= " ** _(I) can't be doing_**
". So, it is the **_negative, potential and progressive_** form of 「する」.

In informal speech, the 「い」 is often dropped from phrases such as 「～て **い**
る」、「～て **い** た」, etc. Unless you are very new to the language, you must have
encountered this phenomenon before.

The sentence, therefore, means:

> "I can't be doing something like this here!"
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