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动态助词：了 · 了: Completion and Change of State
Use 1 — Verb + 了 (completion marker)
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了leUse 1 — Verb + 了 (completion marker)
Wǒ chī le zǎo fàn.我吃了早饭。I ate breakfast. (action completed)
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Xià yǔ le, wǒ men huí jiā ba.下雨了，我们回家吧。It started raining — let's go home.
Tā méi yǒu lái.她没有来。She didn't come.
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A one-page Chinese lesson from the HSK 1 set, filed under 法 · Grammar pattern. Use 1 — Verb + 了 (completion marker)
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The source: the grammar point: 了: Completion and Change of State; 了 in the dictionary.
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