Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
li (Chinese mile)
500 meters (modern)
home
hometown
village
neighborhood
administrative unit
lane
alley
a precinct
this place
here
a surname
to rise
to raise
to get up
to set out
to start
to appear
to launch
to initiate (action)
to draft
to establish
to get (from a depot or counter)
verb suffix, to start
(before place or time) starting from
classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
classifier for groups: batch, group
to stand up
to go up
to happen
to take place
to uncover
to go
to take
sentence-final interrogative particle
variant of 于yú [于]
in
on
at
a surname
outside
in addition
foreign
external
informal
relatives of one's mother
sisters
daughters
abroad
part of the name of some of the roles in traditional Chinese opera
market
city M: 个gè [个]
trade
town
to deal in
to try to gain profits
to show special favor to someone
part of the terminology used in metric system
classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
variant of 分fèn [分]
portion
part
duty
suffix used after province
month to express unit
a unit
a share
of
~'s (possessive particle)
(used after an attribute)
(used to form a nominal expression)
(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
truly
really
indeed
target
to lift up
few
small
to fetch
to move
to get
to pick up
to force
(modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
(completed action marker)
to finish
to end
to settle
a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
a verb particle indicating possibility
to put in
to take away
to escape
flee in secret