| 都什么年代了 |
dōu shén me nián dài le |
What decade are you living in? / That's so out-of-date! |
| 都 |
Dū |
surname Du |
| 都 |
dōu |
all; both; entirely / (used for emphasis) even / already / (not) at all |
| 都 |
dū |
capital city / metropolis |
| 什 |
shén |
what |
| 什 |
shí |
ten (used in fractions, writing checks etc) / assorted / miscellaneous |
| 什么 |
shén me |
what? / something; anything |
| 么 |
má |
exclamatory final particle |
| 么 |
ma |
interrogative final particle |
| 么 |
me |
suffix, used to form interrogative 什么, what?, indefinite 这么 thus, etc |
| 么 |
me |
variant of 么 |
| 年 |
Nián |
surname Nian |
| 年 |
nián |
year / CL:个 |
| 年 |
nián |
grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年 |
| 年代 |
nián dài |
a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL:个 |
| 代 |
dài |
to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute / generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon |
| 了 |
le |
(completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) |
| 了 |
liǎo |
to finish / (used with 得 or 不 after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 "cannot forget") / (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 or 不) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least / to understand clearly (variant of 了) |
| 了 |
liǎo |
(of eyes) bright / clear-sighted / to understand clearly |
| 了 |
liào |
unofficial variant of 瞭 |