Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
classifier for houses or buildings
ridgepole (old)
one thousand
to rise
to raise
to get up
to set out
to start
to appear
to launch
to initiate (action)
to draft
to establish
to get (from a depot or counter)
verb suffix, to start
(before place or time) starting from
classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
classifier for groups: batch, group
to stand up
to go up
to happen
to take place
to uncover
classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
single
alone
one only
one of pair
month (in prison sentence)
ear
handle (archaeology)
and that is all (classical Chinese)
merely
only
handle
side
fungus
mushroom
to hear