lai2le as in kafei laile. What does the le character mean and what is its pinyin?
When handing something over, such as when someone orders a coffee and their coffee is brought to them, my book uses the expression kafei lai le. It doesn't translate the parts of lai le or give the pinyin tones.
When I looked up the character lai in my dictionary I found it listed as "comes; arrives" so that "Kafei laile" would seem to literally mean "Here comes the coffee". I would understand that if it only said "Kafei lai" but what does the le mean? I couldn't find it in my dictionary or nciku.com but it looks exactly like the last character in taihaole ( a word I only saw in my book translated as great or super but I couldn't find in the dictionary).
So in short, what is the pinyin for laile and what does le itself mean in the phrase and by itself?