HAIBAO-Expansion

xiaopaul
 April 22, 2010, 09:23 PM posted in General Discussion

... and I thought I understood the "了"...

In the "Haibao" lesson expansion the sentence 她去买东 西了 is translated as "she WENT shopping" - past tense. I thought a "了" at the end means a change of situation so e.g. "she will go shopping" and for past tense the "了" comes after the verb like 她去了买东西。 Please YinXue help me ;-)

(She went shopping.)

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crystal_counselor
 April 23, 2010, 12:43 AM

Hi

I think you understand the “了”..

but there are two verbs in this sentence, "去" and "买".in that case, you have to put the “ 了" at the end of the sentence to mean the accomplishment of the movement.