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From :   muhammad adil

Date : 2009-10-13 / 08:39PM

我学了三个多月了
Can you explain the grammar of this sentence, and how can we use this grammar in other sentence

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-10-14 / 12:05PM

Hi muhammad,

This grammar is equivalent to the structure in English which is: Have/ has been doing something + for time…..

While in Chinese is: Subject + verb + le + time + le.

这本书我看了一个多月了 = I have been reading this book for more than one month.

我工作了4年了 = I have been working for 4 years.

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