Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
to not have (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 没有méiyǒu [没有]
to look or stare at
to guard or take care of
spoken words
speech
talk
words
conversation
what sb said M: 种zhǒng [种]
席xí [席]
句jù [句]
口kǒu [口]
番fān [番]
to talk
to speak
to tell
to advise
to persuade
to think
he
she
it (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 他tā [他]
(Cantonese) to be
to connect
to relate to
to tie up
to bind
to be (literary)
to involve
relation
relationship
consequence
yes
indeed
right
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
to drag
to tow
to trail
to hang down
to mop (the floor)
to delay
to drag on
to haul
to prolong
to procrastinate
to encumber
to implicate
to lead
a hand
to grab
to seize
gauze
to collect
to gather
to catch
to sift
net for catching birds
to display
to spread out
a surname
a bag for sifting
a gross
twelve dozen
black
a surname
numerous
many
dark
an aboriginal tribe
(of a woman) to marry
to marry off a daughter
to shift (blame etc)
to impute to another
used in transliteration, such as in 'lama'