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A basic sentence is in the form of SVO, i.e. a subject is followed by a verb then by an object, though this order is often violated because Cantonese is a topic-prominent language. Unlike synthetic languages, seldom do words indicate time, gender and number by inflection. Instead, these concepts are expressed through adverbs, aspect markers ...
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The Institute of Language in Education Scheme (Chinese: 教院式拼音方案) also known as the List of Cantonese Pronunciation of Commonly-used Chinese Characters romanization scheme (常用字廣州話讀音表), ILE scheme, and Cantonese Pinyin, [1] is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by Ping-Chiu Thomas Yu (Chinese: 余秉昭) in 1971, [2] [3] and subsequently modified by the ...
Hong Kong Cantonese speakers frequently code-mix although they can distinguish foreign words from Cantonese ones. For instance, "噉都唔 make sense", literally means "that doesn't make sense". After a Cantonese speaker decides to code-mix a foreign word in a Cantonese sentence, syntactical rules of Cantonese will be
walls 墻 (Cantonese only) 部: bù bou6: bou6 phō "part" — novels 小說 / 小说, movies 電影 / 电影, TV dramas etc.; vehicles (如 ： 一部大巴 ）; Cantonese only: machines 冊 / 册: 册 / 冊: cè caak3: chaak3 tsheh volumes of books (冊 is more common in Traditional Chinese, 册 in Simplified) 層: 层: céng cang4: chang4 ...
ngo 5 I 想 soeng 2 want 睇 tai 2 read 晒 saai 3 all 佢 keoi 5 it 先 sin 1 first 還 waan 4 return (keoi5 = the book) 我 想 睇 晒 佢 先 還 ngo5 soeng2 tai2 saai3 keoi5 sin1 waan4 I want read all it first return 'I want to finish reading it before I return it.' Plural suffix (-dei6) One of the few grammatical suffixes in the language, the suffix (-dei6) cannot be used to form plural ...
Yue varieties retain the initial /m/ in words where Late Middle Chinese shows a shift to a labiodental consonant, realized in most Northern varieties of Chinese as [w]. [46] Nasals can be independent syllables in Yue words, e.g. Cantonese 五; ńgh; 'five', and 唔; m̀h; 'not', although Middle Chinese did not have syllables of this type. [46]
粵語拼盤: Learning the phonetic system of Cantonese; Chinese Character Database (Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect) The CantoDict Project is a dedicated Cantonese-Mandarin-English online dictionary which uses Jyutping by default; MDBG free online Chinese-English dictionary (supports both Jyutping and Yale ...