Is this sentence correct?

[Lou]

Hey!

Yet another problem arose with a sentence...*lol*.

The title of the NPCR-lesson 18 is "我聽懂了，可是記錯了/我听懂了，可是记错了。"

They translate it with "I understood what I was told, but remembered it wrongly."

Yup, I see all the words, but shouldn't it be:

我聽懂了，可是記得錯了。

我听懂了，可是记得错了。

I recently was confused by a similar thing (verb was described with an adverb, but no 得 was used to link them) and it turned out that the verb in fact was a gerund, hence not in need of a 得. But in this case, I don't think 記 is a gerund, so why is there no 得 to link 記 and 錯?

Thanks you all!

[Tiana]

It's easy to get confused with things that we're not familiar with. For your question, try this:

 

If you agree that 听懂 is fine without needing a 得 in between,

then 记错 is grammatically the same as 听懂, so there is no need for a 得 in between.

[anonymoose]

Just think of 记错 as a word meaning "remember incorrectly".

[歐博思]

These also go into more detail about the grammar:

 

http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Potential_complement

http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Result_complement

[Vildhjerp]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think 记 alone represents the attempt of trying to remember something without indicating what the actual result is. Adding a 得 indicates that the attempt was successful and adding a 错 indicates that it was not successful.

 

记得 - remember correctly (the 得 isn't being used as a "linking" particle here)

记错 - remember incorrectly

 

Therefore, 记得错 wouldn't make much sense. "To correctly remember the incorrect memory?" Nah, doesn't work.