V著 — Resultative: the verb's aim lands and catches. The act succeeded in reaching its result.

grammar → V著

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V著 grammar point · tier 1 · resultative V著 zháo — the verb caught and took hold

· zháo

Resultative: the verb's aim lands and catches. The act succeeded in reaching its result.

Hook inherited from 著.

Resultative

框 · Frame

[verb] 著 (zháo)

觸 · Trigger

An attempt lands and the result catches: sleep arrives, the fire takes, the search finds.

序 · The move

1Take a verb whose try can either land or miss (sleep, light, find, hit).Is there a target the act aims at and might fail to reach?

2Hang 著 (zháo) on the verb to mark the try as having caught.著 reports the result reached, not the act in progress.

3Read the pair as one fused outcome: the verb succeeded.Negate with 沒 (沒睡著) — if 'didn't manage to' fits, this is zháo, not the worn-state zhe.

例 · Examples

1他喝完finish drinking牛奶milk很快就睡sleep著caught — sleep took hold了。

He finished the milk and fell asleep soon after.

界 · Boundary

著 (durative, zhe)

zháo reports a result that caught and is now reached (睡著 = managed to fall asleep). zhe (戴著) leaves a result worn and ongoing. The reading splits the two: zháo lands the outcome, zhe holds a state open.

結果補語

結果補語 names a specific outcome (看懂 = read-and-understood, 吃完 = eat-and-finished). zháo is the one fixed complement for catching, taking hold, succeeding. The result the verb aimed at arrives.

✗ 他睡著在 → ✓ 他睡著了

✗ 他沒睡著著 → ✓ 他沒睡著

✗ 我找了書 (for: I found it) → ✓ 我找著書了

English folds 'fell asleep' / 'managed to find' into the bare verb, so learners leave 著 off and the success goes unmarked; zháo is the syllable that says the try landed.