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《Road to Success》 S1·E20 (32:51) HSK 3
nǐ zhōu mò yǒu shí jiān ma zhōu mò

你周末有时间吗 周末

“Are you free this weekend? This weekend?”

《Road to Success》 S1·E20
TIMECODE: 32:51 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN shí jiān bù zǎo le nà wǒ jiù xiān huí qù le xiǎo bái bài bài

时间不早了 那我就先回去了 小白 拜拜

“It's getting late. I'll head back. Bye-bye, Ivory.”

nǐ zhōu mò yǒu shí jiān ma zhōu mò CURRENT FOCUS

你 周末 有时间吗 周末

“Are you free this weekend? This weekend?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN hǎo xiàng méi yǒu

好像没有

“I don't think so.”

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Scene: Social & Dating
Function: ISSUING INVITATION
Tone: INQUISITIVE
Emotion: ANTICIPATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I'd really like to see you this weekend if you're free.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Indirect Invitations (委婉邀约)

Rather than proposing an activity outright, Chinese speakers usually ask 'Are you free?' first to give the other party an easy, face-saving way to decline without rejecting the activity itself.

INTENT TAGS: #sounding_out #invitation #checking_availability #dating
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
有时间吗 SPOKEN CHUNK

are you free?; do you have time?

The standard, polite conversational opener to check availability before extending an invitation or making a request.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Turns the statement into a standard yes/no question.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES

Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)

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