zhongwen-obsidian/Complements.md

A complement is a grammatical unit, generally made up of a verbal or an adjectival expression, that appears after the main verb in a sentence to enhance its meaning. The Chinese language contains many various types of complements.

Complement of Degree

#得 The complement of degree provides a degree to which the verb occurs. In Chinese, 得 is used to join it to the verb it modifies:

Verb + 得 + (Degree Adverb + Adjective)
            (   Complement of Degree  )

1. 他吃得很多 tā chī de hěn duō "he ate a lot"
2. 他写得很好 tā xiě de hěn hǎo "he writes really well"
3. 他来得很晚 tā lái de hěn wǎn "he came very late"

Questions

Questions can be formed in this pattern, either affirmative-negative, or interrogative: 1.