Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
                     
            
              to follow
            
            
              from
            
            
              it is for...to
            
            
              reason
            
            
              cause
            
            
              because of
            
            
              due to
            
            
              to
            
            
              to leave it (to sb)
            
            
              by (introduces passive verb)
            
            
              up to
            
            
              through
            
            
              a surname
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              “now”, with an connotation of doubt 
            
            
               surprise 
            
            
               disapproval
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              to confer on
            
            
              to give to
            
            
              to let
            
            
              to allow
            
            
              by
            
            
              to
            
            
              have been
            
         
        
        
        
                     
            
              to take a look; to check something out [colloquial]
            
         
        
                     
            
              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
            
         
        
                     
            
              the bleating of sheep
            
            
              final particle which transforms statements into questions that indicate doubt or surprise (Cantonese)
            
            
              what
            
            
              whatever
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              early
            
            
              prior
            
            
              former
            
            
              in advance
            
            
              first
            
            
              for now
            
            
              ancestor
            
            
              pioneering
            
            
              only then
            
         
        
                     
            
              (adverb) in a while; a short while; one moment
            
         
        
                     
            
              a moment (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [huǐ])
            
            
              metropolitan
            
            
              gatherings union
            
            
              to meet
            
            
              to catch up
            
         
        
        
        
                     
            
              indignant
            
            
              generous
            
            
              to sigh (with emotion)