過 — Experiential marker: the verb's action has been lived through at least once before now.

grammar → 過

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過 grammar point · tier 1 · experiential V過 (have done it before)

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Experiential marker: the verb's action has been lived through at least once before now.

Hook inherited from 過.

Experiential marker

框 · Frame

[subj] [verb] 過 ([obj])

觸 · Trigger

You want to say you have done something at some point in your life, not when or how it turned out.

序 · The move

1name the actoris the claim about lived experience, not one specific finished event?

2verb + 過, glued togetherdoes 過 sit right after the verb, before any object?

3add the object if there is onewould 了 read as 'just got done' here instead of 'have ever done'?

4to negate, put 沒 before the verb and keep 過沒 [verb] 過, never 不?

例 · Examples

1我I看watch過experiential — have done before這部this (measure 部 for films)電影film。

I've seen this film (before).

界 · Boundary

了1

過 logs the experience (I have done it at some point); 了 reports a realized event (the action got done). 看過 = have seen it before; 看了 = watched it (this time).

過

V過1 is the experiential suffix on a verb; the standalone 過 verb means to pass or cross (過馬路). Same character, but here it rides a verb and carries no motion of its own.

wrong negator: 我不去過日本 → 我沒去過日本

object before 過: 我看這部電影過 → 我看過這部電影

dropping 過 under 沒: 我沒看這部電影 → 我沒看過這部電影

English present perfect ('have seen') covers both 過 and 了; learners reach for 了 when they mean lived experience, losing the 'ever, at some point' reading.