Cantonese
Cantonese word of the day
A new word every day, each with a real sentence that uses it. The same words, with a puzzle and review, are in Cantoday: Jyutping Daily, free on the App Store.
- 肥過 fatter than
- 黃雨 Amber Rainstorm Signal
- 隻 classifier for animals, vessels, or single items of pairs
- 咗 perfective aspect marker
- 囉 obviousness / resignation particle
- 月台 train platform
- 初一 the first day of the Lunar New Year
- 掃街 to go on a street food crawl (literally 'to sweep the streets')
- 糖 sugar / candy
- 飲茶 to go for dim sum / to drink tea
- 阿華田 Ovaltine
- 小炒 stir-fry dishes
- 冇 to not have / did not (past negation)
- 比佢 by him / by her / by it
- 買餸 to buy groceries / to shop for food (for a meal)
- 食飯 to eat a meal / to have dinner
- 返工 to go to work / to be at work
- 我 I / me
- 喺 at / in / on (locative preposition)
- 喜劇 comedy film / comedy
- 高過 taller than / higher than
- 紅雨 Red Rainstorm Signal
- 個 general classifier / person or abstract noun marker
- 緊 progressive aspect marker
- 啦 suggestion / imperative / softening particle