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"How much did you spend?"
Translation:你花了多少钱?
December 28, 2017
10 Comments
NathanRasm
381
Different reason, same result: This lesson also discusses spending time. If the English sentence doesn't say what was being spent, I'm not going to invent an extra detail.
hippietrail
346
Completed or changed. Many languages don't have a concept of "tense" but instead a different one of "aspect". But most English speakers don't know the second term unless they've studied linguistics or a foreign language and tend to overuse the term "tense" to cover all kinds of changing verb endings in all languages.
了 can be used with actions in the present or future and actions in the past no not always have to use 了.
hippietrail
346
Chinese doesn't have tense though. I'd want to hear a native Chinese speaker weigh in.