Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
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
indignant
generous
to sigh (with emotion)
(adverb) sloppily; shoddily; slackly; randomly; casually; anyhow; haphazardly (describes the unmindfulness in doing something, i.e. without putting much effort or thoughts into it); (expression) "whatever"; "anything goes"; (adjective of an action) perfunctory; slipshod
(Cantonese) to be
to connect
to relate to
to tie up
to bind
to be (literary)
to involve
relation
relationship
consequence
yes
indeed
right
so (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 这样zhèyàng [这样], like this
expression of surprise
disapproval
to do
to make
to produce
to write
to compose
to act as
to engage in
to hold (a party)
to be
to become
to function (in some capacity)
to serve as
to be used for
to form (a bond or relationship)
to pretend
to feign
to act a part
to put on appearance
to fight
to kill
to trick
to have sex
twenty (20), in a limited number of set expressions
also written using banker's character 念
twentieth
twenty-odd
to go out
to come out
to occur
to produce
to go beyond
to rise
to put forth
to happen
to grow
to have (something unpleasant occurring)
to leave
to send out
out
grain
food
provisions
agricultural tax paid in grain
salary
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
it doesn't matter; indifferent