Sentence Pattern: Verb+错
  • heimaodian July 23

    Everyone makes mistakes, especially when you start learning Chinese. Today, Let's learn how to use the result complement 错 (cuò) to express making mistakes.

    Structure
    To express that an action resulted in an error, you can use a result complement with -错. This covers what is often expressed with the adverb "incorrectly" in English.


    Object + Subject + Verb + 错 + 了


    Note that this sentence puts the object first as a topic.

    Examples

    1 zhè jiàn shì wǒ zuò cuò le 
     这 件 事 我 做 错 了。
     I did this thing wrongly.
     
    2 Nǐ shuō de huà wǒ tīnɡ cuò le.
     你 说 的 话 我 听 错 了。
     I misheard what you said.

    3 Wǒ jì cuò le.
     我 记 错 了。
     I remembered wrongly.

    4 Zhè ɡè zì nǐ xiě cuò le.
     这 个 字 你 写 错 了。
     You wrote this character wrongly.
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