他们不是徐萌父女吗？
“- Aren't they Xu Meng and her father? - Are they?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这个电梯里的人是谁？
“who is the person in this elevator?”
他们 不是 徐萌父女 吗 ？
“- Aren't they Xu Meng and her father? - Are they?”
是吗？
“- Aren't they Xu Meng and her father? - Are they?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese frequently uses monosyllabic combinations like '父女' (father-daughter) or '母子' (mother-son) to succinctly state familial relations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
Aren't they...?
A common rhetorical question frame used when you believe something is true and expect confirmation.
father and daughter
A concise compound noun used in formal or spoken Chinese to denote a father-daughter pair.
Turns the negative statement into a confirmation-seeking question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Xu Meng and her father? What does that have to do with me?”
“appear in Xu Meng's house?”
“Let's wait till we find Xu Meng and her father.”
“I owe Xu Meng and her dad the truth.”
“then how did Xu Meng and her father die?”
“How did you kill Xu Meng and her father?”