7.6 Vocabulary List

For nouns, the suitable classifiers are put in square brackets after the nouns.

1.	返工	faan1 gung1	SV	to go to work; to work
2.	返學	faan1 hok6	SV	to go to school
3.	做嘢	zou6 je5	SV	to work; to do tasks for work
4.	做做 + company name	zou6 zou6 + company name	V	to work to work at
5.	讀書	duk6 syu1	SV	to study
6.	讀讀 + school name	duk6 duk6 + school name	V	to study to study at
7.	間	gaan1	CL	(Used with organizations, e.g., company, school)
8.	公司 [間]	gung1 si1 [gaan1]	N	company; office
9.	學校 [間]	hok6 haau6 [gaan1]	N	school
10.	大學 [間]	daai6 hok6 [gaan1]	N	university
11.	U [間]	U [gaan1]	N	university
12.	喺响	hai2 hoeng2	Prep	in, on, at
13.	邊度	bin1 dou6	QW	where
14.	邊 + classifier	bin1 + classifier	QW	which

Adj = Adjective

Adv = Adverb

AP = Aspect Particle

CL = Classifier / Measure Word

Conj = Conjunction

DW = Distinguishing Word

Exp = Expression

Mor = Morpheme

MV = Modal Verb

N = Noun

Num = Number

Onom = Onomatopoeia

Part = Particle

Post = Postposition / Localizer

Pref = Prefix

Prep = Preposition / Coverb

Pron = Pronoun

QExp = Question Expression

QW = Question Word

SP = Sentence Particle

Suf = Suffix

SV = Separable Verb

V = Verb

VP = Verbal Particle