"他今天戴了帽子。"
Translation:He is wearing a hat today.
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Why is it not "he wore a hat today"? I thought 了 meant the action already occured.
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It's actually for a completed action, not for past ones. 戴 is to out on and the action was complete today, but the hat remained on his head.
Perhaps better English translation then is "He put on a hat today." ?
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The better, and accepted, translation is "He wore a hat today". Yours is good too.
"To bring" would be 带 (or 帶 in traditional Chinese), which has the same pronunciation as 戴.
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Sorry, phone was bugging out not showing my replies so I practically triple posted haha.
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Hey Kal-in, there should be a "delete” under your comments so that you can delete them.
戴 is mostly used when referring to an accessory : 帽子， 眼镜 (glasses), any jewelry, 手表 (watch), 手套 (gloves)，eventually 围巾(scarf)... 穿 is used with clothes and shoes
To refine this explanation a bit, 戴 refers to objects that are generally set onto the body, whereas 穿 refers to the act of passing one object (your arm, for instance) through another (a shirt sleeve).
Strictly speaking, 他 means he, she, and it. It's not a gendered word. Recently 她 has been created as a word for “she”, 它 for “it”, etc., to make it more like English, but this should be optional.
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No, 他 does not mean "it", unless you're using figurative language （修辞手法）.
This brings to mind the fact that there are other rare ones as well, such as 祂 which refers to a divine person.
In "classical" Chinese （文言文）, there are other forms of referring to a third person, such as 彼、其、伊 although strictly speaking, there are no such terms, so that one would say 此人 （这个人） instead.
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The sentence seems to be hanging, something needs to be added e.g. 他今天戴着帽子去菜市买东西。
