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《Hold A Court Now》 S1·E3 (29:08) HSK 2
xiǎo lóng bāo bú shì yǒu gè nǎi nǎi ma liú wén bō yǒu gēn nǐ shuō guò ma

小笼包不是有个奶奶吗 刘文波有跟你说过吗

“Doesn't Xiaolongbao have a grandmother? Did Liu Wenbo ever mention her?”

《Hold A Court Now》 S1·E3
TIMECODE: 29:08 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN wǒ yě bù néng mǎn dà jiē qù zhǎo rén ba

我也不能满大街去找人吧

“I can't go searching the streets.”

xiǎo lóng bāo bú shì yǒu gè nǎi nǎi ma liú wén bō yǒu gēn nǐ shuō guò ma CURRENT FOCUS

小笼包 不是 有个奶奶 吗 刘文波有 跟你说过 吗

“Doesn't Xiaolongbao have a grandmother? Did Liu Wenbo ever mention her?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN nǐ yǒu diàn huà ma diàn huà méi yǒu

“Do you have a number? No number,”

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Scene: Daily Life
Function: INFORMATION SEEKING
Tone: PROBING
Emotion: CURIOSITY
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Think back: did Liu Wenbo mention anything about his grandmother that could help us find her?”
💡 Cultural Insight: Information Verification via Intermediaries

In personal problem solving, checking mutual acquaintances' prior disclosures is a common way to build an action plan.

INTENT TAGS: #inquiry #prompting #verifying #problem_solving
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
不是有个 SPOKEN CHUNK

isn't there a...

Used in spoken Chinese to bring up a known fact or option rhetorically.

有跟你说过吗 SPOKEN CHUNK

did (someone) ever tell you / mention to you

Common spoken pattern to verify if specific information was previously shared.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Ends both interrogative clauses to ask for verification.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

3 EXPR · 2 GRAMMAR
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