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
used in transliteration
to come
used as a final particle to add emphasis
越嚟越
jyut6 lai4 jyut6 / jyut6 lei4 jyut6
more and more; increasingly
young
junior
young master
used as part of terms for military ranks
phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds)
Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha
(dialect) final particle similar to 了le [了] (esp. in Yunnan)
“now”, with an connotation of doubt
surprise
disapproval