to transit
→
to have experience
1 realization
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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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. |
Reference | ||
Comment | Cf. wo kan-guo naben shu ‘I read, I had to read this book’. The situation in Thai languages is the same. |