tā qù yīyuàn qù de tài wǎn, chàdiǎnr méi guàshànghào.

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Breakdown of tā qù yīyuàn qù de tài wǎn, chàdiǎnr méi guàshànghào.

• 她tā: she
• 去qù: to go
• 太tài: too

Questions & Answers about tā qù yīyuàn qù de tài wǎn, chàdiǎnr méi guàshànghào.

Why is 去 used twice in 她去医院去得太晚?

This is a very common Chinese pattern.

The first 去 means go to and takes 医院 as its destination:

• 去医院 = go to the hospital

The second 去 appears because the speaker wants to add a complement after the verb:

• 去得太晚 = went too late

In Chinese, when a verb has an object and you also want to add a 得-complement, the verb is often repeated:

• 她去医院去得太晚
• literally: she go hospital go DE too late

This is similar to patterns like:

• 他睡觉睡得很好 = He slept very well.
• 她汉字写得很漂亮 = She writes Chinese characters beautifully.

So the repeated 去 is grammatical and natural here.

What does 得 mean here?

Here 得 is a structural particle, not the verb to get.

In this sentence, it links the verb to a complement:

• 去得太晚 = went too late

So the structure is:

• verb + 得 + complement

Examples:

• 说得很快 = speak very fast
• 写得很好 = write very well
• 来得太晚 = come too late

Also, this 得 is pronounced de in a neutral tone here, not dé and not děi.

Why can’t we just say 她去医院得太晚?