B2 · Grammar reference
Complement "-huai le"
The degree complement -坏了 (huài le) is a bit like the complement -死了, and can be used to mean "extremely" in both a a positive and a negative sense.
- Keywords
- 坏
- Used for
- Expressing result
- Classification
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Examples (10)
大家都累坏了。
我早饭和中饭都没吃，饿坏了。
发现爸爸又去赌钱了，妈妈气坏了。
孩子不见了，妈妈急坏了。
一个男人突然拿出一把枪，乘客们都吓坏了。
你一晚上没有给我打电话，我担心坏了。
面试官太严肃了，我都要紧张坏了。
听到这个好消息，大家都高兴坏了。
这个笑话让我们都乐坏了。
她终于买到了演唱会的门票，她激动坏了。
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Summary, structure, classification, and adapted sentence examples draw from the AllSet Learning Chinese Grammar Wiki under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0; changes were made. This noncommercial reference is based on an October 2023 snapshot.
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