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  • The tricky “了” (le) Part 2
    Remember the example sentence from part 1? 我们晚上吃了饭去看电影吧？ “了” means "finish", so you can also say 我们晚上吃完饭去看电影吧？ In these 2 sentences 吃了饭、吃完饭 have same meaning of "finish dinner". If you ever learned 补语 (bǔ yǔ, complement) , the words follow and complete 谓语 (wèi yǔ ，predicate), some of the most...
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  • The tricky “了” (le) Part 1
    “了”，is one of the most trickiest word in Chinese language, and it seems like you never know when you should say than when shouldn't. If you've been told “了” is used in past tense only, everything will be simpler. But we do NOT say “了” all the time when we are telling you something happened in the...
    grammar, le, 了