Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
to go
to go to (a place)
to cause to go or send (sb)
(when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
to be apart from in space or time
(after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
(used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
(of a time or an event etc) just passed or elapsed
fish M: 条tiáo [条]
尾wěi [尾]
a surname
KangXi radical 195
a reptile
to fish
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else
indignant
generous
to sigh (with emotion)
(adverb phrase) During the trip
journey
to stop
to block
card M: 张zhāng [张]
片piàn [片]
calorie
cassette
(computing) (coll.) slow
lorry
truck
checkpoint
customs barrier
road block
to get stuck
to be jammed
to choke
a carriage
li (Chinese mile)
500 meters (modern)
home
hometown
village
neighborhood
administrative unit
lane
alley
a precinct
this place
here
a surname
cloth
to declare
to announce
to spread
to make known
a surname
so (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 这样zhèyàng [这样], like this
to walk
to go
to run
to move (of vehicle)
to visit
to leave
to go away
to die (euph.)
from
through
away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走chèzǒu [撤走])
to change (shape, form, meaning)
to escape
to run away
to make a trip
to leak out
to incur loss
one's humble self
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