Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
to be born
to give birth
life
to grow
raw
uncooked
student
living
lifetime
birth
living beings
a male actor
to happen
to occur
to produce
to create
crude
alive
strange
unfamiliar
keenly in
abruptly
rudely
by force
rudely
unskilled
used as a suffix to adverbs
a surname
Mr
Cantonese particle equivalent to 了le [了] or 过guò [过], a particle used to indicate perfective aspect for continuous state
completed actions
past events
change of situation
one
single
a (article)
as soon as
entire
whole
all
throughout
"one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
first (positional)
one part of a fraction, such as 'a' quarter, an eighth
a short duration (when used with a verb)
each
same
dedicated
from the start
grain
granule
classifier for small round things (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains etc)
a small particle
to have rice as food
ten thousand
a quantifier for hours
a 'pip' on the shoulder of police's uniform indicating the rank
indignant
generous
to sigh (with emotion)
(phrase
pronoun) means 'like this'; that way; this way e.g. 佢噉樣唔得 He shouldn't do it like this; in that case; for that reason; since that is the case; then