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- author "puiatflickr"
- tags "Cantonese "
- description "Random cantonese vocab for intermediate learners"
- fileName "Cantonese (pui).txt"
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- author "puiatflickr"
- tags "Cantonese "
- description "Random cantonese vocab for intermediate learners"
- fileName "Cantonese (pui).txt"
- freezingBlueDBID -1.0
- come back
- 返(嚟)
- faan1 lai4
- faan1 - come back, to return
- lai4- come, arrive
- nei5 gei2dim2 faan1lai4 hoeng1gong2 ah5 - when are you coming back to HK?
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to take ferry
- 搭船
- daap3 syun4
- daap3 - to take transport
- syun4 - ship, ferry, boat
- daap3ce1: to take bus, train (not specifying particular vehicle)
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What about..(it’d be better)
- 不如
- bat1 jyu4
- bak1 - no (mg4’s liternal form)
- jyu4 - if, as in jyu4gwo2
- bat1 jyu4 nei5 come to sheung wan la
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then, in that way
- 咁
- gam2: connecting word
- gam3, why don’t you come straight to sheung wan (instead of kln)
- gam3: plus adj.
- gam3 hou2? - so good? that good?
- dim2gaai2 nei5 gam3 ceon2 ga3 - why are you THAT stupid?
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You are as smelly as pigs.
- 你同豬一樣咁臭。
- Nei5 tung4 zyu1 yat1joeng6 gam3 cau3.
- tung4: with
- yat1 joeng6: same
- gam3: that
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to watch movie
- 睇戲
- tai2 hei3
- tai2: look, watch, see, things do with eyes
- hei3: film
- tai2: syu1(book) / neoi2zai2(girls)
- tai2haa3siin1: take a look first
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again
- 又
- jau6
- *unlike English’s again, u can’t use it alone. must be followed by verb
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should
- 應該
- jing1goi1
- mg4 jing1goi1: should not
- jing1 mg4 jing1goi1: should or shouldn’t
- eg, Ngo5 jing1 mg4 jing1goi1 drink coke?
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hardworking, exhausting
- 辛苦
- san1 fu2
- fu2 - bitter taste, fu2 gwaa1-bittermelon
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To go up
- 上
- soeng3
- soeng3shan1: going up hill
- also get on (bus, car..), mount
- soeng bus, soeng che1(car); seong maa5(horse)
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To, reach
- 到
- dou3
- zi34dou3: late to arrive
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To surf on internt
- 上網
- Soeng3 mong3
- mong3 as net
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almost
- 就快
- zau6 fu2
- fu2 - bitter taste, fu2 gwaa1-bittermelon
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hardworking, exhausting
- 辛苦
- san1 fu2
- fu2 - bitter taste, fu2 gwaa1-bittermelon
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going up hill is exhausting
- 上山好辛苦
- soeug5saan1 hou2 san1fu2
- ~lok6saan1 mg4 san1fu2: going down hill is not exhausting
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almost reached the peak
- 就快到山頂喇
- zau6faai5 dou3 saan1deng2la3
- dou3: arrive, reach
- zau faai: almost
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Let me treat you something to drink later
- 陣間請你飲嘢喇
- zan6gaan1 ceng2 nei5 yam2jeh5lah3
- zan6gaan1: later, a while later
- zan6: a moment
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hardworking, exhausting
- 辛苦
- san1 fu2
- fu2 - bitter taste, fu2 gwaa1-bittermelon
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French bread
- 法 (國) (麵) 包
- Fat3 (Gwok3) (min6) bao1
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Dirty
both are dirty. combine two words woo1 joe1 laap6 taap3 to emphasis very dirty
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Classmate
- 同學
- tung4 hok6
- hok6: learn
- dai6 hok6: university
- siu2 hok6: primary school
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stink
- 臭
- cau3
- most adj
- eg. nei5 hou2 cau3
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same
- 一樣
- yat1 joeng6
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Colleague
- 同事
- tung4 see6
- see6: affairs, matters, doings
- see6 as mut1 yeh5 see6 ah3 - what's up
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Aunts and elderly female relatives, friend's mother
- 伯母
- Bak3 mou5Bak3 as ah3 bak3 (old man)
- Mou5 is literal form for mother
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1. Middle aged man
2. Middle aged man names Ho (Ho4)
- 1. 阿叔
- Ah3 Suk1
- 2. 何叔
- Ho2 Suk1note Ho4 change to Ho2
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old, as aged
- 老
- lou5~my granny is very lou5
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old people (neutral sex)
- 老人(家)
- lou5 jan4 (gaa1)
- lou5: old
- jan4: people, man
- gaa1: family, respectful term as -ist, specialist
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expert, specialist
- 專家
- zyun1 gaa1
- zyun1: devoted, concentrated
- gaa1: -ist
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cafe de coral
- 大家樂
- daai6 gaa1 lok6
- daai6-big; gaa1-family; lok6-joyful
- daai6 gaa1: everybody, all people
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Have breakfast
- 食早餐
- sik6 zuo2 caan1
- Grammar: eat + morning + meal
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Go out
- 出街
- ceot1 gaai1
- ceot1: to exit, to produce
- gaai1: street
- ~Are you going to ceot1 gaai1 today?
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Now
- 而家
- yee4 gaa1
- Tone and pronunciation same as Ikea’s Cantonese name
- Ngo5sik jyun4 faan6 heoi3 ji4 gaa1 maai5 je5 ~I will shop at Ikea after meal.
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Set meal 1
- 一號餐
- yat1 hou4 caan1
- Literally one number meal
- Meal A: A caan1
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Prefer, like….more
- 鍾意……多啲
- Zung1ji3…..do1 dee1
- Ngo5 zung1ji3 sik6 zyu1gu1lik1
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Scientist
- 科學家
- fo1 hok6 gaa1
- fo1 - subject; hok6 - learn; gaa1 - -ist
- fo1 hok6: science
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old, as from the past
- 舊
- gau6
- ~The TV is very gau6. (not lou5)
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old fashioned
- 老土
- lou5 tou2
- tou2: earth, country bumpkinish
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Fashionable, chic
- (新)潮
- (san1) ciu4
- san1: new, san1 nin4-new year
- ciu4: wave, tide, current
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Cool, stylish
- 型
- jing4
- nei5 gam1 yat6 hou2 ying4- you look cool today.
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1. Old man
2. Old man names Chan / (old) Uncle Chan
- 1. 阿伯
- Ah3 Bak3
- 2. 陳伯 (name first, then the term 'bak')
- Chan2 Bak3*Chan is 4th tone. but when it comes before 3rd tone it changes to 2nd. same goes with other 4th tone names such as Wong Bak, Ho Bak, Yeung Bak...
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Uncle who is friend of one's family or member of clan; your friend's father
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law
- 法律
- fat3 leot6two characters both mean law. typical chinese words forming
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lawyer
- 律師
- leot6 see1
- see1 as lou5 see1 - teacher, gin3 zuk1 see1 -architect
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To distribute red pocket
- 派利是
- Pie3 Lai6 See6
- pie3 - to distribute
- "lai6 see6" together means red pocket, but not a literal translation
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not your/my/their businese
- 唔關你/我/佢哋事
- ng4 gwaan1 nei5/ngo3/keoi5dei6 sii6
- gwaan1: relations, related
- sii6: doing, matters (mut yeh sii ah)
- keoi5 dei6: them, their
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maybe, probably
- 可能
- ho2 nang4
- ho2: can
- nang4: ability, able
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polite
- 禮貌
- n.: lai5 maau6
- adj.: yau5 lai5 maau6 - polite
- adj.: mou5 lai5 maau6 - impolite, rude
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let's meet for tea; let's get together for tea
- 一齊去飲茶啦
- yat1 cai4 heoi2 jam2 caa4 la1
- cai4: tidy, orderly
- yat1 cai4: together
- heoi2: go
- jam2 caa4: drink tea->canton ppl means eat dim sum meal
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tidy, orderly, neat
adj.
- 整齊
- zing2 cai4
- ~his desk is very zing2 cai4
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make, fix
v.
- 整
- zing2
- zing2 kuk1 kei4: to make/bake cookies
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