Re: Help on Verbs...

Paul Bennett wrote:

> Really?  Even, like, Chinese?
> <<<<<<
>
> I'd have to say an uneducated "yes".
Absolutely yes.  The particle "le", which has many functions in Chinese
(arguably it is two different particles, a sentence particle and a verb
particle, which get merged if both would appear in the same sentence),
represents among other things perfective aspect.  The particle "zhuo"
represents progressive aspect.

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