那个我哥还没起呢
“Ming is not up yet?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
要觉得好喝回头再给您送
“If you like it, I'll bring you more.”
那个 我哥 还没 起 呢
“Ming is not up yet?”
哥 别睡了
“Ming, get up now.”
“Please excuse the wait, my brother is still asleep.”
Starting a sentence with '那个' (well/um) serves as a common discourse marker in Chinese to soften an inconvenient or slightly embarrassing fact.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
hasn't gotten out of bed yet
Very casual, everyday spoken way to say someone has not woken up or risen from bed yet.
Indicates an ongoing state of inaction (still asleep) and softens the informational delivery.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You still haven't been to see my brother, right?”
“Desheng. Get up.”
“Bro, you haven't said yet.”
“I asked my brother for it before. He wouldn't give it to me.”
“If my brother doesn't make it,”
“This is my eldest brother. This is my second brother.”