6. ACCOMPLISHED FACT

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


  1. Tā bǎ nèi ge hóng píngguǒ chī le.
    他把那个红苹果吃了。
    He ate the red apple.


  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), shuā i摔 (break), hē 喝(drink), qǔxiāo 取消 (abolish), huán 还(return), and so on.