生了多少气啊
“mom always got angry.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
妈因为你
“For you,”
生了多少气 啊
“mom always got angry.”
你是听话
“You always did what she wanted.”
“Look at all the pain and trouble you caused Mom.”
In Chinese culture, causing a parent emotional distress (生气) is heavily stigmatized, and family members often invoke a parent's suffering to instill guilt and enforce obedient behavior.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to get angry; to take offense
A fundamental verb-object collocation; in '生了多少气', it is split to quantify the degree of anger suffered.
Adds emotional intensity and exclamatory weight to emphasize the severity of the mother's distress.