断了联系

斷了聯繫

duànleliánxì

phrase

Meanings

1 to have lost contact
2 to have fallen out of touch

Characters

to break / sever

perfective particle

Examples

毕业后我们就断了联系。

Bìyè hòu wǒmen jiù duàn le liánxì.

After graduation we lost touch.

搬家以后跟老同学都断了联系。

Bānjiā yǐhòu gēn lǎo tóngxué dōu duàn le liánxì.

After moving I fell out of touch with all my old classmates.

Tips

grammar

了 here marks completed change of state — contact existed, now it doesn't. The shorter 失联 is more dramatic ('lost contact'); 断了联系 is the everyday 'we drifted apart and stopped messaging'.

Stroke Order

断 duàn

了 le

联 lián

系 xì