Number of realizations
1
to transit
→
to have experience
| Realization | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| Lexeme | guo | |
| Meaning 1 | to pass, to cross | |
| Meaning 2 | "action or state has taken place at least once" (suffix like) | Yangmei dangao wo chi guo. (= strawberry cake I eat EXPER) "I have eaten a strawberry cake once." |
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| Related Languages | ||
| Comment | Cf. wo kan-guo naben shu ‘I read, I had to read this book’. The situation in Thai languages is the same. | |