Cantonese Dictionary
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Common Cantonese Words
Words that appear all the time in everyday conversations.
不過bat1 gwo3only · merely份fan6classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc · variant of 分fèn [分]來lai4to come · to arrive係hai6(Cantonese) to be · to connect個go3individual · this兩loeng5two · both問man6(verb) to question · to ask問題man6 tai4question · problem喎waa1awry (mouth) · a Taiwan pr. [kuāi]嗰go2that · those (Cantonese)嘅ge2a final particle to imply assertion with doubt · surprise嘩waa1(interjection) 1. Oh!, 2. Wow! · crashing sound
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