Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else
a moment (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [huǐ])
metropolitan
gatherings union
to meet
to catch up
to recognize
to know
to admit
to understand
to enter into a certain relationship with
to offer to do something
because of
for
on account of
on behalf of
by (in the passive voice)
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
flower
blossom M: 朵duǒ [朵]
支zhī [支]
束shù [束]
把bǎ [把]
盆pén [盆]
簇cù [簇]
fancy pattern
florid
to spend (money, time)
a flowering plant
prostitute
prostitution
smallpox
multicolored
fireworks
to spend
to expend
stars on the shoulder of policeman's uniform to denote the rank
disorderly
scratched
dirty
pre-sale
suffix related to a female
unit of money (in PRC: Chinese yuan, in USA: dollar, etc)
primary
the first
origin
head
eldest
the Yuan Dynasty
a surname
to buy
to purchase
to bribe
to persuade
to bet
to place a bet on
to kill
to have killed