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Category: Expressions

The videos or articles which talks about Chinese/Cantonese expressions 中文、廣東話表達句子 belong to this Category.

Posted on October 22, 2018May 4, 2019

Practical Cantonese 11 – 執笠

執笠 (zap1 lap1):a shop closes down

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Posted on October 19, 2018May 4, 2019

Practical Cantonese 10 – 穿煲

穿煲 (cyun1 bou1):a lie or a secret plan is disclosed (accidentally and unintentionally)

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Posted on October 15, 2018October 5, 2018

Practical Cantonese 9 – 度叔

度叔 (dok6 suk1):good at calculation and spending money to a certain extend, unwilling to spend money on others; stingy

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Posted on October 11, 2018October 5, 2018

Practical Cantonese 8 – 度橋

度橋 (dok6 kiu2):make a plan

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Posted on October 8, 2018October 5, 2018

Practical Cantonese 7 – 扭計

扭計 (nau2 gai3):deliberately make things difficult for someone; making a din (esp. child)

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Posted on October 5, 2018October 5, 2018

無牙老虎

As you know, news headline should be short, straight to the point and meaningful in whatever languages.  Therefore, reading news headline is a good way to learn language.  In the coming posts, we will occasionally write something about news headline.   Continue reading “無牙老虎”

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Posted on October 4, 2018October 5, 2018

Practical Cantonese 6 – 夾計

夾計 (gaap3 gai2):collude, to act together secretly (or illegally) in order to deceive or cheat someone

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Posted on September 30, 2018October 4, 2018

Practical Cantonese 5 – 計仔

計/計仔 (gai2 / gai2 zai2):a plan or an idea. (spoken form, very casual) 🤔

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Normally, we pronounce 計 as gai3, but here we pronounce in different tone. Continue reading “Practical Cantonese 5 – 計仔”

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Posted on September 7, 2018October 4, 2018

Practical Cantonese 4 – 作狀

作狀 / 扮嘢 (zok3 zong6 / baan6 je5):intentionally pretend you are cool, more important or better; but sometimes people may use it in opposite way – intentionally pretend you are pity, weak …

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Posted on September 1, 2018October 4, 2018

Practical Cantonese 3 – 甩底

甩底 (lat1 dai2)/放飛機 (fong3 fei1 gei1)/失約 (sat1 joek3, can be used in written form):didn’t keep the promise; stand (someone) up; don’t show up

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甩….底

放….飛機

失約

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