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《About Love》 S1·E7 (05:32) HSK 3
jié hūn qián bù dōu shuō hǎo le ma

结婚前不都说好了吗

“Didn't we agree before the wedding?”

《About Love》 S1·E7
TIMECODE: 05:32 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN nǐ yào yǎng gǒu

你要养狗

“You wanna get a dog?”

jié hūn qián bù dōu shuō hǎo le ma CURRENT FOCUS

结婚 前不 都说好了 吗

“Didn't we agree before the wedding?”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN fǎ dòu huò zhě shì kē jī nǐ xuǎn

法斗或者是柯基 你选

“French Bulldog or Corgi, your choice.”

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Scene: Family & Home
Function: HOLDING ACCOUNTABLE
Tone: ASSERTIVE
Emotion: ANNOYANCE
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“You already promised this before we got married, so you cannot back out now.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Premarital Verbal Agreements (婚前约定)

Modern Chinese couples frequently make informal pacts before marriage about domestic life (such as keeping pets or dividing chores), treating them as binding moral promises.

INTENT TAGS: #holding_accountable #reminding #asserting_promise #negotiation
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

2 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
结婚前 SPOKEN CHUNK

before getting married; premarital

Standard temporal phrase referring to the period prior to marriage.

说好了 SPOKEN CHUNK

agreed upon; settled; promised

Extremely frequent expression used to confirm a consensus or remind someone of an existing promise.

Modal Particle「吗」 (ma) CHANGE OF STATE

Completes the rhetorical question pattern '不都……吗', strengthening the demand for confirmation.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

2 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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