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What does 啦 mean?
What does 啦 mean?
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- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
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It's an ending particle placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.
For example:
離開！(Get lost!) - an order
離開啦！(Please leave) - a request
The first one is very impersonal and straight forward, whilst the second one has been softened down by the particle 啦.
Sometimes, it is used at the end of a phrase indicating that the speaker is trying to defend that the statement made earlier by others is just the opposite.
Examples:
我已經做咗啦！I've done it already! (the statement made earlier by others might be " You haven't done it yet?")
佢番咗嚟啦！He's back already! (the statement made earlier by others might be "He hasn't come back yet.")
I hope it helps!
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- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
- English (UK) Near fluent
It's an ending particle placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.
For example:
離開！(Get lost!) - an order
離開啦！(Please leave) - a request
The first one is very impersonal and straight forward, whilst the second one has been softened down by the particle 啦.
Sometimes, it is used at the end of a phrase indicating that the speaker is trying to defend that the statement made earlier by others is just the opposite.
Examples:
我已經做咗啦！I've done it already! (the statement made earlier by others might be " You haven't done it yet?")
佢番咗嚟啦！He's back already! (the statement made earlier by others might be "He hasn't come back yet.")
I hope it helps!
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- English (US)
@wilsonkwan thank you! what if I put it in a statement like "It is snowing lah" would that make sense? what would that mean?
- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
- English (UK) Near fluent
@chuhwahwa
That's another word used. We use "喇" instead, meaning "now", "from now on", "right now", "up till now".
The pronunciation of "喇" is "laa3".
Examples:
而家落緊雪喇！(It's snowing now!)
我走先喇！(I've to leave now!)
我唔阻你喇！(I don't want to disturb you now!)
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- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
- English (UK) Near fluent
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