往后要是有个儿子的话
“Listen, if Huifen and I ever have a son later,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我跟你嫂子惠芬
“Listen, if Huifen and I ever have a son later,”
往后要是 有 个 儿子 的话
“Listen, if Huifen and I ever have a son later,”
咱们必须是亲家
“we must become in-laws.”
“We are so close that our future kids definitely ought to get married so we become family.”
Close friends in China frequently make lighthearted verbal pacts ('zhi fu wei hun' or becoming in-laws) as a token of enduring friendship and mutual loyalty.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
from now on, in the future
A colloquial alternative to '以后' frequently heard in casual conversation.
if there is/are
A natural, spoken conditional marker equivalent to '如果有'.
Functions as a spoken conditional clause marker, softening the hypothetical proposition.