36.7 Vocabulary List

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1.		舖	pou3	N	shop CL: 間 gaan1
2.		Product / Service + 舖	Product / Service + pou2	N	… shop (for referring to a type of shop, e.g., 麵包舖 min6 baau1 pou2 ‘bread + shop’)
3.		Product / Service + 店	Product / Service + dim3	N	… shop (for referring a type of shop, e.g., 麵包店 min6 baau1 dim3 ‘bread + shop’)
4.		喺 + Place	hai2 + Place	V	to be in, on, at
5.		出	ceot1	V	to go out; to come out
6.		出去	ceot1 heoi3	V	to go out
7.		出嚟	ceot1 lai4	V	to come out
8.		入	jap6	V	to go in; to come in
9.		入去	jap6 heoi3	V	to go in
10.		入嚟	jap6 lai4	V	to come in
11.		上	soeng5	V	to go up; to come up
12.		上去	soeng5 heoi3	V	to go up
13.		上嚟	soeng5 lai4	V	to come up
14.		落	lok6	V	to go down; to come down
15.		落去	lok6 heoi3	V	to go down
16.		落嚟	lok6 lai4	V	to come down
17.		返	faan1	V	to go back; to come back
18.		返去	faan1 heoi3	V	to go back
19.		返嚟	faan1 lai4	V	to come back
20.		過	gwo3	V	to go over; to come over
21.		過去	gwo3 heoi3	V	to go over
22.		過嚟	gwo3 lai4	V	to come over
23.		埋	maai4	V	to go close; to come close
24.		埋去	maai4 heoi3	V	to go close
25.		埋嚟	maai4 lai4	V	to come close
26.		拎 + Thing	ling1 + Thing	V	to take
27.		攞 + Thing	lo2 + Thing	V	to take
28.		買 + Thing	maai5 + Thing	V	to buy
29.		整嘢	zing2 je5	SV	to do tasks (literally ‘to make + thing’)
30.		經過 + Place	ging1 gwo3 + Place	V	to pass by
31.		夠 + Noun	gau3 + Noun	V	to have enough … (e.g., 夠時間 gau3 si4 gaan3 ‘to have enough time’)
32.		時間	si4 gaan3	N	time
33.		順路	seon6 lou6	Adj	on my way
34.		夜	je6	Adv	late at night
35.		… + 嗰陣時	… + go2 zan6 si4	Conj	when (in the sense of ‘at the time that’; as in when coming back, please buy some beer for me)
		… + 嗰陣	… + go2 zan6
		… + 嗰時	… + go2 si4
36.		冇手	mou5 sau2	Exp	to not have a free hand (literally ‘to not have + hand’)
37.		拎住 + Thing	ling1 zyu6 + Thing	Exp	to be holding
38.		做咩呀？	zou6 me1 aa3?	Exp	Why? (Used to ask why someone asks something)
39.		… + 得唔得呀？	… + dak1 m4 dak1 aa3?	Exp	Is it okay if …? (Used to ask if someone can do something)
40.		冇嘢喇。	mou5 je5 laa3.	Exp	Nothing already.

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