你到底知不知道
“Do you know or not?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你跟我说呀
“tell me.”
你到底知不知道
“Do you know or not?”
今天他来打针的时候
“Today, when he came for his injection,”
“Stop stalling and tell me the truth right now!”
Using '到底' (after all / on earth) directly confronts the interlocutor, stripping away conversational politeness to prioritize urgent factual resolution.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
do you actually know or not
Use '到底' before an affirmative-negative question to express peak impatience or demand a definitive answer.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So, do you know something or not?”
“Do you?”
“Do you even know who you are?”
“No way you don't know. Of course you know.”
“Do you know that I've sunk my entire fortune into this?”
“do you realize how amazing you are?”
“We don't know! We really don't know!”
“Do you know Hongtou Mazu Temple?”
“Do you know that because of bad sanitation,”
“Do you know why the city wants to open the mine?”
“Do you know what this wretch has cost me?”
“It seems you don't know.”
“Do you know what is going on right now?”
“[July 21, 2019, Sunday] I don't know if he knows. Okay.”