对 晓丹 指定是她
“Right, Xiaodan. It was definitely her.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那只能是晓丹了
“It must have been Xiaodan.”
对 晓丹 指定是 她
“Right, Xiaodan. It was definitely her.”
我那天来的时候她也搁这儿
“She was here when I came in that day.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Northeast Mandarin and Northern dialects, '指定' frequently substitutes for '肯定' or '一定是' to convey definitive confidence.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
definitely is / bound to be
A distinctive Northern dialect word commonly used in spoken Chinese to express absolute certainty.