这是什么呀这
“What is this?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这孩子
“Silly girl.”
这是什么呀这
“What is this?”
哥 哥
“Guangcai.”
“What on earth is this nonsense?”
Repeating the demonstrative pronoun '这' before and after the question is a typical oral technique used by Chinese speakers to emphasize frustration or shock.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
What is this?
Common everyday question used either literally or as an exclamation of bafflement.
Softens the inquiry phonetically while amplifying the speaker's emotional bewilderment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What's that?”
“What is all this?”
“Do you know what this is?”
“Let me see. What's all this?”
“What's going on? What is this? This...”
“What is this? What kind of dumpling is this?”