Talk about different kinds of possibilities in Chinese 变卦

Different kinds of possibilites 变卦 biàn guà

Dialogue:

A：下个月王菲的演唱会，你和娜娜去不去？

Xià gè yuè wáng fēi de yǎn chàng huì ，nǐ hé nà nà qù bù qù ？

Faye Wong will give her concert next month, will you and Nana go?

B：我肯定去，但是娜娜不太确定。

Wǒ kěn dìng qù，dàn shì nà nà bù tài què dìng 。

I will definitely go, but Nana is not sure.

A：她很喜欢王菲的歌，应该会去吧?

Tā hěn xǐ huān wáng fēi de gē，yīng gāi huì qù ba ？

She likes Faye Wong's songs very much. I think that she will probably go.

B：不一定，上次她答应和我们一起玩，可是后来又变卦了。

Bù yī dìng，shàng cì tā dā yìng hé wǒ men yī qǐ wán，kě shì hòu lái yòu biàn guà le 。

Probably not, last time she promised us to hang out together, but later she changed her mind.

Words & expressions:

【演唱会】yǎn chàng huì: music concert
【肯定】kěn dìng：sure, affirm
【确定】què dìng：sure
【应该】yīng gāi: should
【不一定】bù yī dìng: not sure
【答应】dā yìng: promise, respond
【后来】hòu lái: later, afterwards
【变卦】biàn guà: change one's mind, go back on one's word

Source: Learning Mandarin Chinese
Editor: wanwan