Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
                     
            
              spoken words
            
            
              speech
            
            
              talk
            
            
              words
            
            
              conversation
            
            
              what sb said M: 种zhǒng [种] 
            
            
               席xí [席] 
            
            
               句jù [句] 
            
            
               口kǒu [口] 
            
            
               番fān [番]
            
            
              to talk
            
            
              to speak
            
            
              to tell
            
            
              to advise
            
            
              to persuade
            
            
              to think
            
         
        
                     
            
              he 
            
            
               she 
            
            
               it (Cantonese)
            
            
              Mandarin equivalent: 他tā [他]
            
         
        
        
        
        
                     
            
              important
            
            
              vital
            
            
              to want
            
            
              to ask for
            
            
              will
            
            
              going to (as future auxiliary)
            
            
              may
            
            
              must
            
            
              (used in a comparison) must be
            
            
              probably
            
            
              if
            
            
              essential points
            
            
              necessary
            
            
              necessity
            
            
              to desire
            
            
              to need
            
            
              should
            
         
        
                     
            
              to announce
            
            
              to inform
            
            
              report
            
            
              newspaper
            
            
              recompense
            
            
              revenge M: 份fèn [份] 
            
            
               张zhāng [张]
            
            
              reward
            
         
        
        
        
        
                     
            
              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