Re: 夥 vs. 伙
Tang wrote:夥同某人 may be just for convent, 伙同某人 suggest a tighter bond.After consulting 3 Taiwan dictionaries, namely 新編東方國語辭典 (2008.8), 遠流活用國語辭典 (2009.9) and 中華活用大辭典 (2012.8), I’ve found out that 伙 (in...
View ArticleRe: 贍 reading really "sin6"?
Findings from more recent HK dictionaries (in chronological order):粵音檢索漢語字典 (2006.12) – sim6中華新字典 (2007.1) – sim6 (standard), sin6 (variant)商務新詞典 (2008.1) – sim6中文新多用字典 (2012.2) – sin6I think we could...
View ArticleRe: Help me figure out cantonese grammar.
So the word order is subject+verb(+object)Does this word order change in any cases?
View ArticleRe: Help me figure out cantonese grammar.
QuoteTime So the word order is subject+verb(+object)Does this word order change in any cases?Subject+verb (+object) is standard way to make simple phrases, - (verb) never go before (subject) - any...
View ArticleRe: How do you say shout and whisper?
「叫」or「嗌」= 「call」,「tell」, 「shout」or 「yell」「大聲叫」or「大聲嗌」= 「shout loudly 」or「yell loudly」**「大聲叫」or「大聲嗌 could be simplify to「大叫」or「大嗌」Example: 「他突然大聲叫」( he suddenly shout loudly)「他突然大叫」( he suddenly shout...
View ArticleRe: Is korean language closer to canto than mandarin?
Quotebenkaiser eventhough korea is just a hop away across the yellow sea, the korean language, in terms of pronounciation of chinese words, are very similar to those of southern chinese dialects like...
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Re: Ancient Chinese
QuoteWONG FEI HONGI have question. In ancient times, how could Chineses from other parts of China speak one to each other, having so much dialects and languages? I mean, did exist some lingua franca...
View ArticleRe: "What's the difference between..."
Wow, I'm gone a few days and come to see such a wealth of answers. Thanks everyone; very helpful!At the time, I remember saying something like 都係一樣呀？which, I don't know if it's grammatically correct,...
View Articleléih
Hi all,I am trying to find out the meaning of the word "léih" in the following sentences:Juhn sái léih gong mē?Ngóh sái kéuih léih ngóh àh?In the first one the translation I have says it means "you",...
View ArticleRe: Tangent Constructed Chinese
TCC revision:說 shiuet, Japanese setsuMandarin corr: shiuet, i lost after retroflex Cs, final -t lost: shuə > shuo, compare with 國 kwêk > kwê > kwo (=guo)Canto corr: shiuet > /ɕyət/ >...
View ArticleRe: Ancient Chinese
Well @OP, I'd say "ancient Chinese" is more like having most of Mandarin's initials (except for the palatal series j, q, x) and core vowels, but having the Cantonese vowel as the medial and the...
View ArticleRe: Hokkien
Thing I don't understand is why the tones sound so unpredictable?Like for instance 謙虛 have both characters in the same tone but they're pronounced with different tones in the recording. Is it because...
View ArticleRe: Hokkien
Indeed: this is called tone sandhi, and all the Min varieties of Chinese, including Taiwanese Hokkien, have substantial and complex systems.Cantonese in general lacks "automatic" tone sandhi when two...
View ArticleRe: léih
Juhn sái léih gong mē?=仲駛（使）你講咩？你=youNgóh sái kéuih léih ngóh àh?我（唔）駛佢理我呀？理=care
View ArticleRe: léih
Thank you!! I actually cannot read the characters though - so does that mean what is written in Roman alphabet can indeed mean either 'you' or 'care'?
View Article一生中幾許歡笑
『一生中幾許歡笑』曲：許冠傑 詞：許冠傑/黎彼得人人唔駛介紹，齊齊狂歡慰寂寥。圍埋齊大跳， 圍埋齊大叫，拋開顧慮你咪心焦。彈彈情歌愛調，談談油脂嘅熱潮。 圍埋齊大跳， 圍埋齊大叫，一於開心啲講下笑。明月與星星光永照，陪伴你分享歡與笑。但願各位不再眼淚掉，輕輕鬆鬆珍惜分與秒。明瞭人生奧妙， 朋情永不會動搖。年齡唔重要， 錢財唔重要，...
View Article眞 or 真 ?
Hi all :)Could someone please explain to me the difference between these two words? I've seen 真 before, but not 眞 ... Are they used interchangeably in practice?When is 眞 the correct character to use,...
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China – both print font & handwritten form: 真Taiwan & HK – print font: 眞 | handwritten form: 真
View ArticleRe: Hokkien
I like the chinese translation for sandhi in the learn shanghainese books I have - 連讀變調 the shanghainese tone changes are certainly complicated all right, makes cantonese seem easy!Hokkien also has...
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