Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
        
                     
            
              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
            
         
        
                     
            
              to speak
            
            
              to say
            
            
              to explain
            
            
              to scold
            
            
              to tell off
            
            
              a theory (usually in compounds such as 日心说 heliocentric theory)
            
            
              to criticize
            
            
              to try to influence someone to do something
            
            
              to mean
            
         
        
        
        
                     
            
              one
            
            
              single
            
            
              a (article)
            
            
              as soon as
            
            
              entire
            
            
              whole
            
            
              all
            
            
              throughout
            
            
              "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
            
            
              also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
            
            
              first (positional)
            
            
              one part of a fraction, such as 'a' quarter, an eighth
            
            
              a short duration (when used with a verb)
            
            
              each
            
            
              same
            
            
              dedicated
            
            
              from the start
            
         
        
                     
            
              to support
            
            
              to sustain
            
            
              to erect
            
            
              to raise
            
            
              branch
            
            
              division
            
            
              to draw money
            
            
              classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions
            
            
              to separate
            
            
              to send away
            
            
              to disperse
            
            
              twelve earthly branches
            
         
        
        
        
        
                     
            
              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
            
         
        
                     
            
              also
            
            
              too
            
            
              (in Classical Chinese) final particle implying affirmation
            
            
              neither
            
            
              either
            
            
              even
            
            
              as well
            
            
              still
            
            
              likewise
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
            
            
              (completed action marker)
            
            
              to finish
            
            
              to end
            
            
              to settle
            
            
              a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
            
            
              a verb particle indicating possibility
            
            
              to put in
            
            
              to take away
            
            
              to escape 
            
            
               flee in secret
            
         
        
        
        
                     
            
              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