Singaporean Mandarin
Standard Singaporean Mandarin uses pure Mandarin words. Colloquial Singaporean Mandarin, on the other hand, uses loan words from other languages. The English loan word "then" is commonly used in place of Mandarin word "才" in colloquial Singaporean Mandarin. Again, a loan exclamatory final particle 囉 ("lor") from Cantonese is used instead of Mandarin exclamatory final particle 啊/呀 ("a/ya"). The English loanword "then" is also often used to replace the Mandarin word 然后 ("ránhòu") in colloquial Singaporean Mandarin: