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<p>挺好的，挺好的。<br>
tǐng hǎo de, tǐng hǎo de.<br>
Not bad, not bad.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Note: because of tone sandhi of consecutive third tones, the first syllable is pronounced in the second tone instead of the third:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>tíng hǎo de, tíng hǎo de.</p>
</blockquote>

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2021-05-19T03:37:58.737Z
Thank you very much, is it a common phrase?
JackieChanFan
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2021-05-19T03:43:18.287Z
Fairly common I would say.
L Parker
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2021-05-19T03:36:12.637Z
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2021-05-19T03:44:02.150Z
L Parker
<p>I have recently rewatched the Jackie Chan film 'Little Big Soldier' and loved the phrase he says often, translated in English as 'how marvelous'. I want to know the words he says  as translations of 'how marvelous' using Google translate do not match. I would love it if anyone was able to provide the Chinese symbols and phonetic language version (forgive my ignorance).</p>
<p>The phrase is said here twice at 1:04:20 in the film in this YouTube video. <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DzDdgjqj7vg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DzDdgjqj7vg</a></p>
<p>To me it sounds like ti haldur. Although it obviously isn't anything like that in reality.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>

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Understand Chinese phrase
# Understand Chinese phrase

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-05-19)

I have recently rewatched the Jackie Chan film 'Little Big Soldier' and loved the phrase he says often, translated in English as 'how marvelous'. I want to know the words he says as translations of 'how marvelous' using Google translate do not match. I would love it if anyone was able to provide the Chinese symbols and phonetic language version (forgive my ignorance).

The phrase is said here twice at 1:04:20 in the film in this YouTube video. <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DzDdgjqj7vg>

To me it sounds like ti haldur. Although it obviously isn't anything like that in reality.

Thanks

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-05-19. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

> 挺好的，挺好的。  
> tǐng hǎo de, tǐng hǎo de.  
> Not bad, not bad.

Note: because of tone sandhi of consecutive third tones, the first syllable is pronounced in the second tone instead of the third:

> tíng hǎo de, tíng hǎo de.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thank you very much, is it a common phrase?  
> **username_1**: Fairly common I would say.  

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