四什么万啊
“Forty thousand?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
四万哪
“Forty thousand?”
四什么万啊
“Forty thousand?”
“Are you crazy? Who said forty thousand? Listen to the real terms!”
Using 'what [X]' (甚么/什么 [X]) is a standard direct way in colloquial Chinese to brush off an incorrect premise or absurd statement made by an interlocutor.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what ...?; there is no such thing as ...
A colloquial rhetorical pattern used to emphatically deny or reject whatever noun is placed between the words.
Heightens the rhetorical, impatient, and incredulous tone of the question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“let alone 20,000 taels, even 40,000 or 80,000 taels,”
“That's 42,000 a year.”
“I plan to sell it for 43 million”
“would cost four or five hundred. That much? Of course!”
“What? 40 percent?”
“What 20,000 taels of silver?”