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
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 hand over
to deliver
to pay (money)
to turn over
to make friends
to intersect (lines)
to exchange
to come into contact with
to come close to
to join
to alternate
to mate
simultaneously
to connect
(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
an alternative form for 脫,to strip
(located) at
(to be) in
to exist
in the middle of doing sth
(indicating an action in progress)
to depend on
to rest with
to be alive
to fasten
to button
button
buckle
knot
to arrest
to confiscate
to deduct (money)
discount
to knock
to smash, spike or dunk (a ball)
to cover (with a bowl etc)
fig. to tag a label on sb
to place a containter upside down
to detain
in keeping with
to hook
this
these
(commonly pr. [zhèi] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)
the
here
now
then
pen
pencil
writing brush
to write or compose
the strokes of Chinese characters
classifier for sums of money, deals M: 支zhī [支]
枝zhī [枝]
quality
style of writing
to do something in writing
number
figure
several M: 个gè [个]
fate
an amount of money
a debt