嘛呢你 去 去 去
“What were you doing? Get out.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
来了
“Coming!”
嘛呢你 去 去 去
“What were you doing? Get out.”
“Stop messing around with me, get out of here!”
Using 'ma' for 'what' and placing the pronoun at the end of the sentence is a hallmark of Northern Chinese street vernacular, signaling high intimacy and zero social distance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
What are you doing?
A classic Northern Chinese (especially Beijing/Tianjin) colloquialism using inverted word order for emphasis; used among close friends to express surprise or mild reproach.
go away; shoo; stop it
Repeated rapidly to brush someone off when they are being annoying, silly, or overly affectionate.
Marks an ongoing action in a colloquial question ('What are you up to right now?') and adds an interrogative, slightly confrontational tone.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Shoo, shoo. Give me a break.”
“Why are you yelling, water boy? - You do it then. - Move.”
“There's... You go count them. Go on.”