Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
        
                     
            
              you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
            
            
              can be used to refer to an unspecified person
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              song M: 支zhī [支] 
            
            
               首shǒu [首]
            
            
              to sing
            
            
              a poem that can be set to music
            
            
              to chant
            
            
              to praise
            
            
              lyrics
            
         
        
                     
            
              all
            
            
              both
            
            
              entirely
            
            
              (used for emphasis) even
            
            
              already
            
            
              (not) at all
            
            
              metropolis
            
            
              capital
            
            
              big city
            
            
              the whole
            
            
              elegant
            
            
              refined
            
            
              without exception
            
            
              also
            
            
              too
            
            
              still
            
            
              used in a sentence to add an inference or interrogative tone
            
         
        
                     
            
              (Cantonese) to be
            
            
              to connect
            
            
              to relate to
            
            
              to tie up
            
            
              to bind
            
            
              to be (literary)
            
            
              to involve
            
            
              relation
            
            
              relationship
            
            
              consequence
            
            
              yes
            
            
              indeed
            
            
              right
            
         
        
                     
            
              to depend on
            
            
              to comply with or listen to sb
            
            
              according to
            
            
              in the light of
            
            
              to lean on
            
            
              to rest on
            
            
              this
            
            
              these
            
         
        
                     
            
              to live
            
            
              to dwell
            
            
              to stay
            
            
              to reside
            
            
              to stop
            
            
              (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
            
            
              used after a verb to indicate a continuous state or an action which has not been completed yet
            
            
              used between two verbs to indicate the two actions being performed simultaneously
            
            
              used after a verb to indicate the action is temporary, similar to adding 'for now' or 'yet' after a verb
            
         
        
        
        
                     
            
              he 
            
            
               she 
            
            
               it (Cantonese)
            
            
              Mandarin equivalent: 他tā [他]
            
         
        
                     
            
              at once
            
            
              right away
            
            
              only
            
            
              just (emphasis)
            
            
              as early as
            
            
              already
            
            
              as soon as
            
            
              then
            
            
              in that case
            
            
              as many as
            
            
              even if
            
            
              to approach
            
            
              to move towards
            
            
              to undertake
            
            
              to engage in
            
            
              to suffer
            
            
              subjected to
            
            
              to accomplish
            
            
              to take advantage of
            
            
              to go with (of foods)
            
            
              with regard to
            
            
              concerning
            
            
              to yield oneself to
            
            
              to compromise
            
            
              will do
            
            
              no other
            
            
              to let 
            
            
               allow something be a certain way
            
            
              according to
            
            
              supposing
            
            
              either…or
            
            
              exactly
            
            
              precisely
            
            
              definitely
            
            
              to accommodate
            
            
              has 
            
            
               have been
            
            
              to give in
            
         
        
                     
            
              to like
            
            
              to love
            
            
              to be fond of
            
            
              to be liable to
            
            
              to be likely to
            
         
        
        
        
                     
            
              famous
            
            
              prominent
            
            
              to write
            
            
              to compile
            
            
              writing
            
            
              literary work
            
            
              aboriginal
            
         
        
                     
            
              (of the sun) to shine on
            
            
              to bask in (the sunshine)
            
            
              to dry (clothes, grain etc) in the sun
            
            
              (fig.) to expose and share (one's experiences and thoughts) on the Web (loanword from "share")
            
            
              (coll.) to give the cold shoulder to
            
            
              to have very strong sunlight
            
            
              to sunbathe
            
            
              to show off
            
            
              to flaunt
            
            
              to print out photos
            
            
              to sleep
            
            
              to hide
            
            
              to hide out
            
            
              to stay
            
         
        
                     
            
              fire
            
            
              urgent
            
            
              ammunition
            
            
              fiery or flaming
            
            
              internal heat (Chinese medicine)
            
            
              hot (popular)
            
            
              classifier for military units (old)
            
            
              flame
            
            
              to burn
            
            
              anger
            
            
              rage
            
            
              a group of (people), a quantifier
            
            
              KangXi radical 86
            
            
              ammunition
            
            
              red
            
            
              a surname
            
            
              wild
            
            
              bad-tempered
            
            
              crazy