Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
東窗事發
dung1 cheung1 si6 faat3
exposed
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 give something to others; to have something done to oneself by others [colloquial]
to sauté
to stir-fry
to speculate
to hype
to fire (sb)
to repeatedly expose
to win by a large margin
to fail
to perform badly
to have an argument
to have a row
crash
to hit something
to get mixed up with
to hang out with
to get involved with
to beat up
to clash with
to fight against
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