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What were you thinking? Lit. do what make complete thus [particle]?
This sentence is in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵 This is an idiomatic expression that does not take well to direct translation. Level: 2 |
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zou6 mat1 - 粵 why; doing what 搞成噉 gaau2 sing4 gam2 - 粵 do (sth) until it turned out like this 呀 aa3 aa4 aa5 aa1 - final particle for softening abruptness |
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| This sentence was added by Eldon and last edited on 2nd Sep 2011 16:07 | |
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