Le 了 Explained | 6 Usages You NEED to Know【Chinese Grammar】

Hey hey, Rita aka Fàn lǎoshī here! Ready to use my 10-year Chinese teaching experience to help you master this almighty yet confusing Chinese particle – 了!

I’ve lost count of how many times I was asked about this word by Chinese learners at different levels! Being the arguably most difficult word in Mandarin Chinese, it definitely takes a while to get all of its uses in varied contexts and tones of voice.

More importantly, how do we use it correctly and properly? Nothing would be clearer than a collection of sentence structures with 了.

In this video, I’ll walk you through more than 6 usages of 了 that are linked to each other:

0:00 Intro
1:09 verb suffix
3:26 sentence-final 了
5:15 have (not) been doing
6:24 soon 了
7:34 modal particle
8:41 fixed structures


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Reference:
Chinese Grammar without Tears by Xiaoxing Zhu
Integrated Chinese 2 by Yuehua Liu & Tao-chung Yao, Nyan-Ping Bi, Liangyan Ge, Yaohua Shi
Yuzhi Shi’s Weibo post
《试析“V了O“、”VO了“与”V了O了“在语料中的分布情况》 三宅登之

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