This is the 10991st most frequent Korean word.
금지하지
"금지하지" means "does not prohibit" or "does not forbid."
'금지하지' is used here as a verb form meaning 'did not forbid'.
그들은 우리에게서 물을 금지하지 않았어요.
They did not forbid water from us.
'금지하지' appears in a quoted instruction to not forbid something.
저는 금지하지 말라는 말을 들었어요.
I heard an instruction not to forbid.
'금지하지' is used here to indicate the action of 'not forbidding' in a conditional explanation.