你打他干吗呀 废话
“Why did you hit him? Come on.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我打的
“I hit him.”
你 打他 干吗呀 废话
“Why did you hit him? Come on.”
“It's normal that two brothers have a fight once in a while.”
“You had absolutely no right to hit him, and your excuse is ridiculous.”
Interrogating motives with blunt rhetorical phrasing like '废话' reflects direct emotional confrontation in Chinese grassroots disputes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
why hit him
A colloquial pattern 'Verb + 干吗' used to challenge or question the necessity of an action.
nonsense / bullshit
Used bluntly to dismiss someone's words as completely unreasonable or blatantly obvious.
Softens the acoustic harshness while amplifying rhetorical indignation in a question.