Mandarin Chinese past perfect tense the difference between guo and le

Mandarin Chinese past perfect tense the difference between guo and le

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Chinese doesn't have very strict time tenses, but still can use a few particles to express different time tenses.
verb+le to express past tense means did something, verb+guo to express past perfect tense means have (ever) done something.
In practical conversations, le and guo are very similar in past tense or in past perfect tense, so in this video, I explained the difference between particles le and guo to help many of you understand them better.

le can follow either verbs or objects, but guo only follows verbs.
le emphasizes the completion of actions or events, guo emphasizes experience. But if it's usual things that you do in your daily life, under many circumstances, you can use either one.
In negative expressions, in past tense we have to remove le, in past perfect tense we have to keep guo.