我刚才不是提前告诉过你了吗
“Didn't I tell you in advance earlier?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我刚才 不是 提前 告诉过你 了吗
“Didn't I tell you in advance earlier?”
“This will be the last time you cry in your life.”
“You should not be surprised or crying right now; I already prepared you for this.”
In close interpersonal relationships, speakers often use slightly blunt rhetorical reminders to shock the other party out of despair instead of offering purely gentle sympathy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to tell in advance / to warn beforehand
Use this collocation when emphasizing that prior notice or warning was given before an event happened.
didn't... already? / wasn't it...
A common rhetorical question frame used in spoken Chinese to remind someone of an established fact.
Marks completed aspect, emphasizing that the warning had already been given.
Forms a rhetorical question that prompts acknowledgment rather than seeking new information.
