脑子是不是进水了你
“Have you lost your senses?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你是不是傻
“Are you nuts?”
脑子 是不是 进水了你
“Have you lost your senses?”
“Don't you know you're a cripple? What else can you do?”
“Have you completely lost your mind to do something so stupid?”
In high-emotion colloquial Mandarin, speakers often shift the subject pronoun '你' to the very end of the utterance to intensify reproach and direct confrontation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
have water in one's head; out of one's mind; acting foolishly
A highly colloquial, insulting metaphor used to describe someone acting irrationally or stupidly.
are you... or what? (inverted subject)
Placing the pronoun '你' at the end of the clause increases the accusatory, aggressive punch of the question.
Signifies a change of state, implying the listener has newly become senseless or irrational.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You've lost your mind, you know?”
“Looks to me your head's misted.”
“If you're crazy, knock your noggin. Do you hear me?”
“What was she thinking? Anyway, you can ask her yourself.”