Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
li (Chinese mile)
500 meters (modern)
home
hometown
village
neighborhood
administrative unit
lane
alley
a precinct
this place
here
a surname
cover
sheath
to encase
a case
to overlap
to interleave
bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names)
harness
classifier for sets, collections
tau (Greek letter Ττ)
glove
to cover with
convention
to copy
to base it on
a loop
a knot
to trick someone into taling
a trap
a trick
to slip over
to harness
to attempt to win over a friendship
favour
a condom
plural suffix for pronouns
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else
(of land) barren
stony
sure
certain
real
true
secure
valid
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.
to see
to look at
to read
to watch
to visit
to call on
to consider
to regard as
to depend on
to feel (that)
(after verb) to give it a try
Watch out! (for a danger)
to consult a doctor
to judge
structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
to obtain
to acquire
to get
to gain
suit
proper
ready
finished
to be satisfied
to permit
to need to
to have gone as far as to
to have even done
can
to go out
to come out
to occur
to produce
to go beyond
to rise
to put forth
to happen
to grow
to have (something unpleasant occurring)
to leave
to send out
out
always
ever
often
frequently
common
general
constant
ordinarily
eternal
lasting
conventional
regular
cap of, a quantifier for drugs
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