<p>憋久了 has the <code>verb + complement + 了</code> structure where 久 is the complement. You can learn about this structure in <a href="https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Advanced_%22le%22_with_complements" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this link</a>.</p>

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kyc
<p>Your phrase can be expressed like this:</p>
<p>如果你把不开心的事情在心里憋久了，有可能你会生病了。<br />
(If you) hold on to unhappy thoughts for too long, that can cause (physical) illness.</p>
<p>We can state the opinion:</p>
<p>不开心的事情在心里憋久了是会生病的<br />
unhappy things in mind hold for long time that can/will (cause) (physical) illness<br />
Holding on to unhappy thoughts for too long can cause (physical) illness.</p>
<p>I would use this tentative form of <em>can</em> in the translation, to indicate possibility. <em>will</em> for 会 seems more assertive than <em>can</em>，but <em>will</em> also only indicates an assumption, not a certainty.</p>
<p>... 事情... 憋久<br />
things ... hold long time<br />
Holding on to ... for (a) long time</p>
<p>了：</p>
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<p>is it a past tense indicator</p>
</blockquote>
<p>No. It can't be that here. Nothing has happened. The speaker opines that, if you have dark thoughts for a long time, you may or will get sick. But you are not sick, I hope. Maybe you are just having a bad day.</p>
<p>了 can equally be used when talking about events which have not (yet) happened，or may never happen.</p>
<p>不开心的：unhappy<br />
事情: things (here: thoughts, ideas)<br />
心: mind, heart<br />
在 。。。里： in<br />
憋: hold on to, keep in<br />
久: (for a) long time<br />
了： indicates that the preceding phrase is finished<br />
是会： that can<br />
生病的: fall ill</p>

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Pedroski
<p><strong>憋</strong> - hold back; suppress</p>
<p><strong>憋久</strong> - hold back/suppress long</p>
<p><strong>久(adj) + 了 = too [adj]</strong></p>
<p>憋<strong>久了</strong> = hold back/suppress <strong>too long</strong>.</p>
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r13
<p>entire sentence's logic: (((when)) unhappy things are a focal point and suppressed for too long it causes ((you)) to feel ill.</p>
<p>logic of the 憋久了:  憋 in context means suppressed, 久了 in context is similar to 太久了 aka a generic &quot;too long a time&quot;, but altered in a way that makes sense as a compound verb phrase with suppressed.</p>
<p>Note these things may mean different things in other contexts, chinese is a very context heavy language and the exact meaning of characters//phrases is altered by the existing known information in the conversation.</p>

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zagrycha
<p>i saw a sentence <em>不开心的事情在心里<strong>憋久</strong>了是会生病的</em></p>
<p>i take it it means &quot;if u bottle up the sadness (or &quot;sad things&quot;) u're gonna be sick&quot;</p>
<p>憋 means &quot;to bottle up&quot; here.</p>
<p>okay, but i didn't understand two other things.</p>
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<li><p>i know 久 means &quot;long time&quot; or &quot;for a long time&quot;, but does it act like an adverb here or it's more like a suffix/grammatical construction? i mean, there's quite strange character order in 憋久了， so 久 doesn't seem to be an adverb to me, i just don't understand how it works</p>
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<li><p>了.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>just 了. what is it in this case, why is it here and everything. is it a past tense indicator, so it turns out that the whole sentence is in the past, or it's a part of construction or anything else, maybe?</p>

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I don't think Chinese has a very formal grammar, you can decomposed it as: Unhappy thing, in heart, bottle up, long, is, will sick, and re-composite the whole sentence based on your rationality: "is", 了, 的 doesn't have too much meaning to me, more like an emotional expression
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what's the logic in 憋久了？
# what's the logic in 憋久了？

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-10-08)

i saw a sentence *不开心的事情在心里**憋久**了是会生病的*

i take it it means "if u bottle up the sadness (or "sad things") u're gonna be sick"

憋 means "to bottle up" here.

okay, but i didn't understand two other things.

1. i know 久 means "long time" or "for a long time", but does it act like an adverb here or it's more like a suffix/grammatical construction? i mean, there's quite strange character order in 憋久了， so 久 doesn't seem to be an adverb to me, i just don't understand how it works
2. 了.

just 了. what is it in this case, why is it here and everything. is it a past tense indicator, so it turns out that the whole sentence is in the past, or it's a part of construction or anything else, maybe?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I don't think Chinese has a very formal grammar, you can decomposed it as: Unhappy thing, in heart, bottle up, long, is, will sick, and re-composite the whole sentence based on your rationality: "is", 了, 的 doesn't have too much meaning to me, more like an emotional expression  

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## 4 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2024-10-08. Score: 3

憋久了 has the `verb + complement + 了` structure where 久 is the complement. You can learn about this structure in [this link](https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Advanced_%22le%22_with_complements).


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### Answer by username_3 on 2024-10-09. Score: 1

Your phrase can be expressed like this:

如果你把不开心的事情在心里憋久了，有可能你会生病了。  
(If you) hold on to unhappy thoughts for too long, that can cause (physical) illness.

We can state the opinion:

不开心的事情在心里憋久了是会生病的  
unhappy things in mind hold for long time that can/will (cause) (physical) illness  
Holding on to unhappy thoughts for too long can cause (physical) illness.

I would use this tentative form of *can* in the translation, to indicate possibility. *will* for 会 seems more assertive than *can*，but *will* also only indicates an assumption, not a certainty.

... 事情... 憋久  
things ... hold long time  
Holding on to ... for (a) long time

了：

> is it a past tense indicator

No. It can't be that here. Nothing has happened. The speaker opines that, if you have dark thoughts for a long time, you may or will get sick. But you are not sick, I hope. Maybe you are just having a bad day.

了 can equally be used when talking about events which have not (yet) happened，or may never happen.

不开心的：unhappy  
事情: things (here: thoughts, ideas)  
心: mind, heart  
在 。。。里： in  
憋: hold on to, keep in  
久: (for a) long time  
了： indicates that the preceding phrase is finished  
是会： that can  
生病的: fall ill


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### Answer by username_4 on 2024-10-08. Score: 1

**憋** - hold back; suppress

**憋久** - hold back/suppress long

**久(adj) + 了 = too [adj]**

憋**久了** = hold back/suppress **too long**.

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### Answer by username_5 on 2024-10-10. Score: 1

entire sentence's logic: (((when)) unhappy things are a focal point and suppressed for too long it causes ((you)) to feel ill.

logic of the 憋久了: 憋 in context means suppressed, 久了 in context is similar to 太久了 aka a generic "too long a time", but altered in a way that makes sense as a compound verb phrase with suppressed.

Note these things may mean different things in other contexts, chinese is a very context heavy language and the exact meaning of characters//phrases is altered by the existing known information in the conversation.


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