Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
finger
to point at or to
to indicate or refer to
to depend on
to count on
(of hair) to stand on end
toe
to break
to snap
to cut off
to give up or abstain from sth
to discontinue
apart
(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
skin goods, hide
fur
leather
fur coat
capital
overheads
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 die
impassable
uncrossable
inflexible
rigid
extremely
damned
dead
death
the dead
die for (cause)
condemned to die
solid, not hollow
irreconcilable
deadly
obsolete
to the death
stubbornly
desperately
resolutely
dogmatic
in a unconscious
to do something by rote
to do something passively, without doing anything
used to emphasis the negative meaning of a word or phrase
used in transliteration, such as in 'lama'