来着【láizhe】

来着 ends a spoken sentence and points back to something in the recent past. Its commonest job is the question you ask when you knew something and have forgotten it, where English says "again".

In a statement, 来着 reports something that happened a short while ago, often as an answer or a reminder.

What it won't go with

来着 already places the event in the past, so the verb takes no 了. It is also never negative: something that didn't happen gets 没 and no 来着.

• × 我昨天看了电影来着 → 我昨天看电影来着
• × 我没去来着 → 我没去