B2 · Grammar reference · ASG890CA
Advanced "le" with complements
You may have learned that 了 (le) follows immediately after a verb to indicate completion (AKA 了1), and comes at the end of a sentence when it indicates a "change of state" (AKA 了2). But what about when a complement comes after the verb? Does that count as part of the verb or not? The answer, as it often is with 了, is "it's complicated."
- Keywords
- 了
- Used for
- Expressing completion · Describing actions · Referring to the past
- Classification
- Particles
Examples (17)
买到了。
做起来了。
吃完了。
周杰伦演唱会的门票卖光了。
包里装满了书。
我今天睡了十个小时，睡够了。
我第一次听到这首歌，就爱上了这首歌。
我们打赢了比赛。
站了起来
走了上去
吃了起来
跑了过来
聊了下去
我看到一个人游了过去。
我把桃子摘了下来。
小妹看到妈妈不在家，哭了起来。
我把整杯水都喝了下去。
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Summary, structure, classification, and adapted sentence examples draw from the AllSet Learning Chinese Grammar Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; changes were made. This noncommercial reference is based on an October 2023 snapshot.
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