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得嘞
  dak1 laak3   jyutping
[1] It's finally okay - connoting a sense of finality, that sth is completed after making some efforts
[2] It'd surely be okay - connoting a sense of impatience, often used by second speaker after listening to repeated exhortation from first speaker

Compare to synonym 得喇 for subtle diffeences in meaning.
Idiom

Level: 2   Google Frequency: 646

This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
得嘞

This word has been viewed 2234 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 12th Aug 2005 01:04 and last edited on 28th Mar 2011 05:56
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Characters in this word:

 dak1  -  get; obtain; fit; finished; able to; must
 laak3  -  finally; surely
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