le
了 (le) is a Chinese word meaning “(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)”.
Meanings
- 1(completed action marker)
- 2(modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
- 3(modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
- Part of speech
- auxiliary
Related words
了to finish了(of eyes) bright了unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]为了for; for the purpose of; in order to了解to understand了解to understand极了extremely除了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")罢了a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much)罢了a modal particle indicating (don't mind it, ok)受不了unbearable了不起amazing