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Originally Posted by Jonne
hehe, thanks.
Well, how do you say "I bought a car" ? do you just say "I buy car yesterday" or something like that? something with le/了?
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I bought a car[我買了一輛車], where I=我,buy=買，a=一，car=車，
so in the whole sentence, the Chinese is two words more, that is, 了and 輛,then I tell you, 了means sth. done, which represents the past tense; 輛is an unit word, such as "a book" is [一
本書],the word/character 本acts in the same way.
I buy a car yesterday maybe is wrong in English grammar, but your thinking in Chinese is almost right. In Chinese we don't tell the difference of a verb in different tenses, for which special conditions, we add some "function words"[虛詞]to indicate that a thing is future, present or past.