Past tense in Mandarin When you write a sentence in chinese where you indicate with an adverb the time of the action for example： 昨天我吃了炒饭 上星期我去了北京 is it necessary to add the particle 了 to indicate

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Past tense in Mandarin When you write a sentence in chinese where you indicate with an adverb the time of the action for example：昨天我吃了炒饭上星期我去了北京 is it necessary to add the particle 了 to indicate that the action was completed or can you omit it and just write 昨天我吃炒饭上星期去北京 note: I want to know which one of the past two examples are correct the first or the second and why

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Past tense in Mandarin

When you write a sentence in chinese (mandarin) in where you indicate with an adverb the time (tense) of the action, for example：
昨天我吃了炒饭
上星期我去了北京
it's is it necessary to add the participle 了 to indicate that the action was completed, or you can can you omit it and just write
昨天我吃炒饭
上星期去北京 ?

The correct one is the first one. 昨天我吃了炒饭 or 我昨天吃了炒饭上星期我去了北京 or 我上星期去了北京 And Yes! It's necessary to add 了 if you want to indicate that the action was completed.

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