In a sentence
我已经订好明天的车票了。
Wǒ yǐjīng dìng hǎo míngtiān de chēpiào le.
I have already booked the tickets for tomorrow.
明天 describes the tickets, not a future booking action.
我订了两张电影票。
Wǒ dìng le liǎng zhāng diànyǐng piào.
I booked two cinema tickets.
The number gives the booking event a clear amount.
Grammar & reading
View an action as a completed event with 了
Use verb-following 了 to present an action as a bounded event. It does not turn every sentence into the past tense.
Say “already” with 已经
Show that a situation has been reached or an action has happened by the time you are talking about.
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