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Aspect particle 过 (动态助词：过)
过 after a verb shows past experience: someone has done something before. It does not focus on when it happened.
Anchor example
我去过北京，但是没去过上海。
Wǒ qùguo Běijīng, dànshì méi qùguo Shànghǎi.
I have been to Beijing, but I have not been to Shanghai.
HSK 2
HSK 2
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1 structures
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10 exercises
Lesson summary
Subject + Verb + 过 + Object: 过 after a verb shows past experience: someone has done something before. It does not focus on when it happened.
Use Verb + 过 to talk about experience: 去过, 吃过, 看过. Questions often use 你...过吗？ Negation is 没/没有 + Verb + 过: 我没去过. Do not confuse 过 with 了. 了 often marks a completed event or change; 过 marks life experience. 我去过北京 means I have the experience of having been to Beijing. 我去了北京 means I went to Beijing in a specific completed event.
Grammar pattern
Subject + verb + 过 + object
Expresses past experience: have done before.
我去过北京，但是没去过上海。
Wǒ qùguo Běijīng, dànshì méi qùguo Shànghǎi.
I have been to Beijing, but I have not been to Shanghai.
你吃过这种水果吗？
Nǐ chīguo zhè zhǒng shuǐguǒ ma?
Have you eaten this kind of fruit before?
我看过这个电影，很好看。
Wǒ kànguo zhège diànyǐng, hěn hǎokàn.
Fill in the blank:
I have seen this movie before. It is very good.