Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
strip
item
article
clause (of law or treaty)
classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers, people (in slangs) etc)
order
orderliness
ten dollars
an alternative form for 墜, to fall down
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 like
to love
to be fond of
to be liable to
to be likely to
to not have (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 没有méiyǒu [没有]
to read
to study (a subject)
to attend (a school)
to read aloud
to miss (sb)
idea
remembrance
twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿, 20)
to recite
to chant
to study
(experienced action marker)
to cross
to go over
to pass (time)
to celebrate (a holiday)
to live
to get along
excessively
too-
to pass
to pass through
to go across
to surpass
to exceed
to excel
too much
mistake
fault
to transfer (funds
territory
allegiance)
so (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 这样zhèyàng [这样], like this
fork
pitchfork
prong
pick
cross
intersect
"X"
to cross arms
to pierce
to stab
to pick up with a fork
to play mahjong
to branch out
to be stuck
trousers
many
much
often
a lot of
numerous
more
in excess
how (to what extent)
multi-
Taiwan pr. [duó] when it means "how"
much better
plenty
exceed
demonstrably
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else