Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
prefecture
(old) province
(old) administrative division
state (e.g. of US)
oblast (Russia)
canton (Switzerland)
continent
to settle in a place
place surrounded by water
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else
to go
to take
sentence-final interrogative particle
variant of 于yú [于]
in
on
at
a surname
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
same as否 (dated used in old text only), not
no
negative prefix
a final particle
(adjective) (of generations) 1. Great-grand; (noun)
Great-grand mother or father; (Reduplication) "太太" =
wife; 2. Mrs.
it
other
used as a meaningless mock object
(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