Jack Bond-Preston
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Affected files: Optative Verbs.md 了le.md 就jiù.md 还hái.md 还是háishì vs 或者huòzhě.md
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了le is very difficult to grasp in Chinese. It can appear after a verb or at the end of a sentence, and serves a variety of functions.
Post-Verbal (Perfective) 了
The verbal 了 is used primarily to mark the completion Aspect of a verb. Note that this is not equivalent to marking a past action (tense). In English, the "perfective"/"completive" may appear in all three tenses:
- Past Perfect: I had already arrived (when he called).