了
Meaning
- (completed action marker)
- (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
- (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
Example sentence
我要走了。
I'm going to go.
Words containing 了
- 除了 chú le apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French")
- 极了 jí le extremely
- 为了 wèi le for; for the purpose of; in order to
- 了不起 liǎo bu qǐ amazing
- 了解 liǎo jiě to understand
- 受不了 shòu bù liǎo unbearable
Learned around the same time
- 快 kuài rapid
- 来 lái to come
- 来到 lái dào to arrive; to come
- 老 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
- 老人 lǎo rén old man or woman
- 老师 lǎo shī teacher
- 累 lèi tired
- 冷 lěng cold
- 里 lǐ lining
- 里边 lǐ bian inside
- 两 liǎng two
- 零 líng zero