"不要睡觉！"
Translation:Don't sleep!
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But it is relatively rare (spoken as a complaint), and better have 我 at the start to mean that.
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If you think 不要 and 别 do not sound serious enough, say 不许 bù xǔ or 不准 bù zhǔn.
But duo marked me wrong for saying "Don't fall asleep". I think that should pass
My kids are bilingual… I hear them say this plenty meaning they don't want to sleep.
If this sentence is a response, then "I do not want to sleep" is a perfectly valid translation. Please update question. The context is Chinese is extremely important for meaning.
I think based on exclamation it reads more as a command. 我 will more likely be used if it was expressing personal feeling.
I prefer the translation "Don't go to sleep!"; more idiomatic. Btw, that's the title of book #54 of R. L. Stine's Goosebumps series (a very scary book in this case).
