Please help with a short translation

[yannickhk]

Hello,

 

I tried baidu translate, bing and google, all return gibberish. Could anyone help me translate this  : (it's a messages exchange on wechat)

 

你几时翻来我比翻d钱你

你比我老公一样噶

ok

我可能听日后日翻回

 

I can't make any sense of the translations given to me online.

 

Thank you very much for the help.

[Kamille]

Ever thought about the possibility that it's all gibberish in the first place? Who sent this to you?

[yannickhk]

It's a wechat discussion that my wife had with a friend of ours.

Turns out that it's Cantonese. A friend of mine from Hong Kong translated it for me.

Thanks though

[dwq]

Just for the record, here's roughly what it is in Mandarin:

你几时翻来我比翻d钱你 → 你何時回來，我把那些錢還給你
你比我老公一样噶 → 你給我的丈夫也可以啊
ok → ok
我可能听日后日翻回 → 我可能明天或後天回來

[Basil]

I get 几 and 翻 but what are 比 and 听 doing?

[yannickhk]

Thank you dwq for the transcript, much appreciated.

 

Now that translated much better on google

[Kamille]

I found this for 听 :

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/546/

It would actually be interesting to know, etymologically speaking, how it ended up meaning tomorrow. It's probably linked somehow to the meaning of "waiting" that it also has in Cantonese and not in Mandarin.

 

On the same website I found the different meanings of 比 in Cantonese, but nothing seems to relate to the meaning of "giving", even approximately (I guess I didn't search enough):

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/674/

[889]

That d in the middle of Chinese text -- used for 啲 -- is usually a give-away that it's Cantonese.

[dwq]

比 is (wrongly) used in place of 俾 / 畀 as they sound the same.

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/852/

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/749/