还要买套房子做嫁妆吗
“and there's no need for us to buy a house as her dowry.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
培养得这么好了
“raised our daughter so well,”
还要 买套房子 做嫁妆 吗
“and there's no need for us to buy a house as her dowry.”
“That's so old-fashioned. It's not a dowry.”
“Isn't giving her an entire house as a dowry completely unnecessary and overly traditional?”
Traditionally, the groom's side provides the home and bride price (彩礼), but increasingly affluent urban families buy real estate in the daughter's name as premarital security and modern dowry.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
an apartment; a suite of housing
The standard classifier '套' is used for residential apartments or suits of property.
serve as a dowry
Collocation used when property, cash, or valuable items are designated as a bride's dowry.
Transforms a statement into a rhetorical or skeptical yes-no question.
