Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
        
        
                     
            
              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
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              all
            
            
              both
            
            
              entirely
            
            
              (used for emphasis) even
            
            
              already
            
            
              (not) at all
            
            
              metropolis
            
            
              capital
            
            
              big city
            
            
              the whole
            
            
              elegant
            
            
              refined
            
            
              without exception
            
            
              also
            
            
              too
            
            
              still
            
            
              used in a sentence to add an inference or interrogative tone
            
         
        
        
        
        
                     
            
              -ly
            
            
              structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
            
            
              earth
            
            
              soil
            
            
              ground
            
            
              region
            
            
              the base of the coffin
            
         
        
                     
            
              to receive
            
            
              to accept
            
            
              to collect
            
            
              to put away
            
            
              to restrain
            
            
              to stop
            
            
              in care of (used on address line after name)
            
            
              to harvest
            
            
              to regain
            
            
              to take something back
            
            
              to gather
            
            
              to build an affiliation with someone such as to adopt 
            
            
               to take in
            
            
              to hide
            
            
              to retract
            
            
              to punish
            
            
              to contain
            
            
              to end
            
            
              to retrieve
            
         
        
                     
            
              this
            
            
              these
            
            
              (commonly pr. [zhèi] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)
            
            
              the
            
            
              here
            
            
              now
            
            
              then
            
         
        
                     
            
              to ascertain
            
            
              to act on
            
            
              to criticize
            
            
              to pass on
            
            
              classifier for batches, lots, military flights
            
            
              tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)
            
            
              to slap
            
            
              to scrape
            
            
              wholesale
            
            
              pie (loanword)
            
            
              land allocation
            
            
              to comment
            
            
              to strike
            
            
              to hit
            
            
              to chop
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              of
            
            
              ~'s (possessive particle)
            
            
              (used after an attribute)
            
            
              (used to form a nominal expression)
            
            
              (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
            
            
              truly
            
            
              really
            
            
              indeed
            
            
              target
            
            
              to lift up
            
            
              few
            
            
              small
            
            
              to fetch
            
            
              to move
            
            
              to get
            
            
              to pick up
            
            
              to force
            
         
        
                     
            
              to print
            
            
              to mark
            
            
              to engrave
            
            
              a seal
            
            
              a print
            
            
              a stamp
            
            
              a mark
            
            
              a trace
            
            
              image
            
            
              a surname
            
         
        
                     
            
              descendants
            
            
              frontier
            
            
              progeny
            
            
              posterity
            
            
              hem of a garment
            
            
              borderland
            
            
              distant land
            
         
        
                     
            
              man
            
            
              person
            
            
              people M: 个gè [个] 
            
            
               位wèi [位]
            
            
              mankind
            
            
              someone else