6. ACCOMPLISHED FACT

+ le了

Stating what has happened to the object or how one anticipates it to be dealt with.

 

6.1       Tā bǎ nèi ge hóng píngguǒ chī le.  

  他把那个红苹果吃了。

  He ate the red apple.

 

6.2       Bié bǎ yàoshi diū le. 

  别把钥匙丢了。

  Don’t lose the key.

 

Note: The modal particle le here has the underlying notion of liǎo了 ‘to finish’ (Po-Ching Yip and Don Rimmington 2004: p. 200). Only a special class of verbs can take nothing but le in bǎ把 sentences. These are verbs with a built-in terminal point. They are mostly verbs indicating actions which finish as soon as they begin, such as diū 丢(lose), wàng 忘(forget), rēng扔 (throw away), sī 撕(tear up), mǒ抹 (wipe off), shuāi摔 (break), hē 喝(drink), qǔxiāo取消 (abolish), huán还(return), and so on.