[Level 5] 047:  🤖 🈶  婆婆今年幾歲? – How Old is Grandma? – 4/7

• Overview
• ↩ [Lvl 5] 047:  🤖 🈶  婆婆今年幾歲? – How Old is Grandma? – 3/7
• ↪ [Lvl 5] 047:  🤖 🈶  婆婆今年幾歲? – How Old is Grandma? – 5/7
• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese

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Entire story:

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Putta 1997 this year is 2021 year I calculate can (particle) grandmother this year 29 year-old

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🤖 Putta: "1997... The year is 2021 ... ... I calculated that my mother-in-law is twenty-nine years old this year--"

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Putti listen finish immediately big laugh voice out say silly boy/girl if grandmother this year 29 year-old then she is or isn't with nearby house (measure) elder brother same year

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🤖 Putti immediately laughed out loud after hearing this, "Fool, if my mother-in-law is twenty-nine years old this year, then he is the same age as the brother of the next-door neighbor?"

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Putta doesn't make sense (particle) could it be grandmother lie to we

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🤖 Putta: "There's no reason, did my mother-in-law lie to me?"

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Putti grandmother is not lie to we she is don't have memory (particle) we go back again to ask she

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🤖 Putti: "Mother-in-law didn't lie to me, he was forgetful!

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so he / she two (measure) again run back grandmother (measure) house place to ask grandmother

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🤖 So they ran back to their mother-in-law's house to ask her mother-in-law.

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• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese
• ↪ [Lvl 5] 047:  🤖 🈶  婆婆今年幾歲? – How Old is Grandma? – 5/7
• ↩ [Lvl 5] 047:  🤖 🈶  婆婆今年幾歲? – How Old is Grandma? – 3/7
• Overview

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• translated by HamBaangLaang (© HamBaangLaang, 2022)
• based on “How Old is Muttajji?” (English)
• written by Roopa Pai
• illustrated by Kaveri Gopalakrishnan
• published by Pratham Books (© Pratham Books, 2016)
• Series: Hambaanglaang Graded Readers 冚唪唥粵文讀本 (Level 5)
• Source: Hambaanglaang:《婆婆今年幾歲?》How Old is Grandma?
• Presentation: Dennis Amelunxen, chinvocab.com