Shanghainese

"Shanghainese" in a Sentence (12 examples)

I'm Shanghainese.

Can you speak Shanghainese?

This isn't Mandarin, it's Shanghainese.

When you speak Shanghainese with your mum, I only understand a few words, so I can't join in the conversation.

Some Shanghainese hold large banquets when they get married.

The Shanghainese people must build up Shanghai's new image.

The audio feature is only available in some sentences in Chinese, Dutch, French, German and Shanghainese.

The languages that have been transliterated within the Tatoeba Project are Japanese, Chinese, Shanghainese, Georgian and Uzbek.

Sure I can, although I can't really speak Shanghainese.

"If my kid couldn't speak Shanghainese, I’d slap him silly." the man said.

The term “Shanghainese” refers to the residents of the city of Shanghai and its surrounding culture area in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) ... When asked to identify themselves, the residents of the city readily respond “Shanghaiese,” whose connotations today reflect an attitude of superiority, confidence, and high self-esteem.

Maybe it was because I was hearing snatches of Shanghainese and other dialects around me in the carirage, but it didn't feel like I was even in China any more.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.