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Hi jrtgv 喏 (nuo4) is an interjection, which means "look!" or "you know". Read more
Hi bodawei The sound of 啦 ( la ) is made by combining 了 ( l e) and 啊 ( a ), so 啦 is used to imply the sentence is "past/perfect tense", and 啊... Read more
Is the character 喏 in the first full paragraph of page 4 supposed to be the character 諾／诺 ？ It means something like "OK, fine" in the phrase:... Read more
Here's a picture of my grandson, who is half Chinese and lives in the US. This picture is from May, when he was 6 1/2 months old. Read more
@change You are ever-reliable, thanks for sorting that out. So the second use I refer to should actually be 吗 not 嘛; that is what I suspected... Read more
Hi dunderklumpen (D) 有一个小朋友生病了。...There is a kid who got ill. Ummm, I don't think this has a topic-comment structure. Please see it this way, 有一... Read more
@pete 'I really can't stand recharging my balance' 没问题。 我问老板，‘麻烦你, 我不会充值。给你钱以后可以帮助我？‘I assume that is bad enough to demonstrate that... Read more
Hi bodawei and raygo Actually 干吗 and 干嘛 are often used interchangeably, especially on the Internet, but precisely speaking, the functions of 吗 and 嘛... Read more
@raygo thanks for your suggestion - in this transcript it does look like they are used interchangeably but I hadn't seen 吗 used mid-sentence like t... Read more
Could someone please tell me what cilantro is. I have never heard that word here in Australia. Read more