第一百五十七天

[nnozomi]

语法
verb (without object) + 了 + amount of time + 了 again, to indicate an action that has been going on for X duration and is still ongoing
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_ongoing_duration_with_double_%22le%22
(top half of the page only)

词汇
几, several/how many (pinyin in tags)
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

Guardian:
咱们几个斗了也有大半年了吧, we've been fighting various fights for over six months now.
和儿子拥抱的感觉如何，你好像等了二十年了, how did it feel to hug your son, you seem to have been waiting twenty years
说什么呢，就几个苹果, what are you saying, it's just a few apples.

Me:
我只看了一个小时了，已经看到了牵牛花长大了。
我喜欢几种音乐。

Comments

[nnozomi]

This one feels weirdly counterintuitive to me, probably because the first 了 meaning I learned was the 'completed action' one, and this is about ongoing actions (sigh).
Too true. This is why I do end up trying to keep the various 了s separate in my head. (I suspect a lot of it eventually comes down to instinct/familiarity which I don't have and may never, sigh...)