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Tang,In casual conversation can you say 乜野唔同?? I think it would easy for me to repeat but am trying to have better grammar this year.This was a good question, thanks.
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True, I'll stick with Cantonese for now.I'll learn the Cantonese pronunciation of both spoken Cantonese and Standard written Chinese, and also learn Mandarin grammar and vocabulary for SWC.Thanks to...
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QuoteMatFayLong Tang,In casual conversation can you say 乜野唔同?? I think it would easy for me to repeat but am trying to have better grammar this year.This was a good question, thanks.乜野唔同?could be a...
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Usually 乜野XX is used to ask for clarification when someone mentions XX. Thus, the following conversation makes sense:A: 兩種花生糖唔同架 (The two types of peanut candies are different.)B: 乜嘢唔同？ (What do you...
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Great, I understand now. Thanks everyone, I had been using 乜嘢 for most of my questions so now I have more understanding of its true usage.
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More examples of 乜嘢 usage: for verb : example - 殺人(為乜野)殺人呀 (what's the reason for ) killing people?(做乜嘢)殺人呀？( why do you ) kill people?(講乜嘢)殺人呀？ ( what do you mean by) kill people?(算乜嘢) 殺人呀？(It...
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夥 伙The character pages of these two characters both say they are variants of the other, though 伙 has some meanings outside of the "variant of 夥" definition. Which one can be considered standard in HK?...
View Article贍 reading really "sin6"?
贍 has the reading "sin6" in CantoDict today, but Pleco uses the reading "sim6", and the same is recommended by CUHK. An 'm' final seems more logical looking at the phonetic component of the character,...
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I would say not interchangeable for all meanings.I have only seen 伙 for 傢伙, and 夥 for 夥伴 for example. However, my phones predictive messaging suggests 伙 for 伙伴 is acceptable, although not 夥 for 傢伙。
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Most dictionaries suggest that 伙 is the standard character for the principal meanings of “partner; partnership; salesman; group; mess; to combine” and that 夥 has only one meaning of “much/many” on its...
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廣州音字典 suggests that 贍 has only one reading sim6.廣州話正音字典 suggests that sim6 is standard reading while sin6 is variant.On the CUHK site, 2 older sources (Wong & Ho) suggest that sim6 is the only...
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Give this one a try, it's from taiwan, the education department there http://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/index.htmlhere's another good source:http://www.ntcu.edu.tw/tailo/Both are in chinese
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can 伙 be a measure word for apartments/houses? for example: "a new property development has been completed, and 1000 units/apartments 伙 will be available for sale"啟德一號 提供逾千伙link for this :...
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Huh. So I guess "sim6" is the conservative, older reading, but that it has now been replaced by "sin6", possibly under Mandarin influence?
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So are there any examples of 夥 being used to mean "many"? It seems that it's used to mean "companion" on all the compound words (which I suggest should be deleted if 伙 is the recommended standard),...
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My impression on 夥 and 伙 is- 夥 should mostly used as a verb 夥同，( partner with / group with)夥同數名黑漢尋仇 ( banded with a few suspected gang members and seek revenge together.)夥脅 ( taking hostage with...
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倉頡 wrote:can 伙 be a measure word for apartments/houses?廣州話正音字典 (p.57) says that 伙 can be used as two different measure words (not exactly classifiers). The first one is a measure for “group” or...
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If you break down the character 「伙」= 人+火 suggest "people gather around cooking fire" 「夥」= 果+多 suggest " many fruit in one basket" You can see 伙 is more intimate and voluntary act than 夥 夥同某人 may be...
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How would you ask a child to shout and whisper?is there an alternative to 大 聲 and 細 聲?
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