What is the purpose of 了in this particular sentence?
I came across these sentences in HSK standard course 3 and I can't understand why 了 was added after 大. My translation of the sentences is this:
"爸爸的生日快到了，我想送他一条裤子，你看这条怎么样？
颜色不错，但是我觉得大了一点儿。"
"Daddy's birthday is coming up soon, I want to give him a pair of pants, look at these ones, how about them?
The color isn't bad, however I think there's a little bit too big".
I'm guessing that my translation is slightly inaccurate at the end, because I don't account for the fact that 了 appears after 大.
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Answers · 4
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1.when you placing 了 after a verb or adjective, indicating that the action or change has been completed.
2.Placed at the end of the sentence or in a pause in the sentence, indicating a change or a new situation
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大了一点
This means the actual object we are looking at is bigger than the person's desired size. They could've made it smaller/gotten him a smaller one but they didn't.
大一点
On the contrary, if the person said things like "这条裤子大一点就好了”“我希望这条裤子大一点”“我觉得可以大一点”, which basically means he wants an even bigger pair than what he's been given, it would mean something completely different than the first scenario.
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Your translation is totally accurate. T'hat's what the sentence means.
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Actually, even Chinese myself could not describe it clearly. I never think about it, I just use it...Awkward!
1. It's more like a no meaning word for me if I just use ’大一点儿‘ without '了'， it would be weird. Add '了'，made it more reasonable.
2. maybe it has the same usage as ‘一点儿’
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