Re: time distinctions
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 24, 2000, 2:23 |
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:17:19PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
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> The perfect marker in Mandarin is "-le" (not the same as the sentence
> marker "le" at the end of sentences).
Oh cool... yeah, now that you mention it, "-le" *is* a perfective marker.
Though I've always thought of it as forming a past participle than a
perfect tense. I guess it can be used in both contexts?
(Sorry for seeming like I'm spouting out about something I don't know...
that's the trouble with knowing a language by "gut feeling" vs. a
systematic study of grammar.)
T