我想说 咱俩该要娃了
“I mean, it's time we had a baby.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你想说啥
“What are you getting at?”
我想说 咱俩 该要娃了
“I mean, it's time we had a baby.”
要个孩子
“Let's have a child.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional and contemporary Chinese culture, having children is viewed as an inevitable life milestone governed by age and relationship milestones.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to have a baby / child
A colloquial northern and western Chinese phrasing equivalent to '要孩子', widely used in informal spoken communication.
it is time to...
A staple grammatical pattern used to denote that the appropriate time for an action has arrived.
Functions as a change-of-state marker indicating that the appropriate moment to take action has now arrived.
