Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
(located) at
(to be) in
to exist
in the middle of doing sth
(indicating an action in progress)
to depend on
to rest with
to be alive
to look down upon (classical)
to see
to look at (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 看kàn [看]
to glance at
to stare at
to look after
to take care of
to consider
to believe
to watch
to read
to check
to find out
to judge
to bring up opinions
to keep an eye on
to monitor
to pay a visit
to support
thin piece
flake
a slice
to slice
to carve thin
partial
incomplete
one-sided
classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water
classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc
used with numeral 一yī [一]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc
to pare
KangXi radical number 91
front
forward
ahead
first
top (followed by a number)
future
ago
before
BC (e.g. 前293年)
former
formerly
advance
to think
to believe
to suppose
to wish
to want
to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)
to plan
to ask
to inquire about
to interrogate
to hold responsible
two
both
some
a few
tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1
16 of a catty 斤jīn [斤] (old)
a group of about ten people
position
location
place
seat
classifier for people (honorific)
classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
throne
post
rank
status
(verb) To bump into (a friend or someone)
to pass a level or a barrier
(literary) Oh!
Ah!
a tiger (dated term)
maybe
perhaps
might
possibly
or
someone
slightly
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