你打了13次电话给他 是不是？
“Before your good friend died, you called him 13 times. Am I right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Before your good friend died, you called him 13 times. Am I right?”
你 打了13次电话给他 是不是 ？
“Before your good friend died, you called him 13 times. Am I right?”
“I already have the call records, so just admit what you were doing.”
Placing '是不是' at the end of a statement transforms an observation into an assertive verification tactic commonly heard in Chinese questioning.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
make a phone call to someone
A common colloquial structure for placing a telephone call to a specific recipient.
isn't that right / right?
Used as a tag question at the end of a sentence to seek confirmation or force agreement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I called him multiple times. But he didn't answer.”
“I've called her so many times. At first the line was busy.”
“Shouldn't you give him a call?”
“No, not yet, but he's phoning him every ten minutes.”
“Why call him at a time like this?”
“But why didn't he tell me when I called him?”