User Comments - maolaowai
maolaowai
Posted on: The Double 了 (le) phenomenon
July 16, 2009, 07:23 AMI hope these are all the sentences
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Joe在上海住了五年了。
Joe has lived in Shanghai for 5 years.
他是一个中国同，他在上海已经住了五年了。
He's Chinese, he's been living here for 5 years
这首歌我已经听了一百遍了。
I've listened to this song a hundred times.
(at the begginign of this though I could not catch what "yi tai luo wu" is other than luo wu is 'old fashioned')
你已经喝了五瓶了，还喝。
I've drunk 5 bottles, and still going.
我活了几十年了 。
I have lived for several decades.
中秋节快到了，我已经吃了快一百个饼了。
The Mid-Autumn Festival has arrived. I've already eaten a hundred Mood Cakes.
一个女朋友说“每次都是我买单我已经买了十次了”。
A girl friend said "I have already paid the restaurant bill ten times." .
忍者的故事我已經聽了很多遍了。
I have already heard Ninja stories many times.
Posted on: Put Me Through to Mr. Cai
February 20, 2017, 09:26 AMHi Team,
I'm wondering how you might taskle a suggestion like 'he will only be a few moments, mind waiting on hold?'.