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you Stroke count: 7
Level: 1
Radical: 亻 (#9)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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你哋
nei5 dei6 = you (plural) 粵
你好
nei5 hou2 = hello; hi; how are you; greetings
你的
nei5 dik1 = your; yours 國
你們的
nei5 mun4 dik1 = (plural) your; yours 國
你們
nei5 mun4 = you (plural) 國
你好嗎
nei5 hou2 maa3 = How are you?
你哋嘅
nei5 dei6 ge3 = your; yours (plural) 粵
你嘅
nei5 ge3 = your; yours (singular) 粵
畀你
bei2 nei5 = give you; let you 粵
給你
kap1 nei5 = give you 國See all 70 compounds (CantoDict reports 81 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing all 320 examples containing 你
你做緊乜嘢呀? 粵
What are you doing? [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131584,131584#msg-131584]
做咩你咁慢㗎? 粵
How come you are so slow? [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,134219,134225#msg-134225]
你係幾時返嚟㗎? 粵
When are you coming back? [the "when" is emphasized by 係 preceding it, and the use of the final particle 㗎. Pronouncing 㗎 as gaa2 would add a sense of reservation or doubt about the situation.]
以後我點叫你哋呀? 粵
How can I order from your [restaurant] in the future? [Lit. Afterwards I how order you-guys?]
阻住你溫書啊，真係唔好意思 粵
Sorry for interrupting your studies! [Lit. block you revise [particle], really sorry. Standard Chinese:打擾你溫習，真不好意思]
你喺度亂講乜嘢？ 粵
What the hell are you doing? [Lit. you in-the-process-of say what? Std. Chinese: 你在胡說其麼？]
你後日係咪游水 粵
Are you going swimming the day after tomorrow? [This is just a simple yes-no question. You can replace the verb-object pair with anything you like.]
你後日係咪去游水 粵
Are you still going swimming with me, the day after tomorrow? [Note that the inclusion of 去 here implies that you've already made an appointment to go with someone and you're confirming (你想確定). The swimming pool is far away from both of you.]
你聽日係嚟游水 粵
Are you still coming swimming with me tomorrow? [Note that the inclusion of 嚟 here implies that you've already made an appointment to go with someone and you're confirming (你想確定). The swimming pool is near you but far from the other person.]
你唔使返補習班咩？ 粵
Don't you need to go to cram school? [Lit. you no need return cram-class [particle]. Std. Chinese: 你不是要上補習班嗎？]
麻煩你翻譯呢句畀我聽 粵
Would you mind translating this sentence for me? [Lit. trouble you translate this sentence give me hear. [Marked as level 1 because this is a tremendously useful sentence for learners ;)]]
你千祈唔好插手 粵
You must not, by any means, interfere. [Lit. you 1000-exhortations don't insert-hand [i.e. put it where it doesn't belong.]]
我send咗email畀你喇，你check啦！ 粵
I sent you an email, check it! [This is a good example of typical office Cantonese. It's very normal to integrate the three English words above; using the "proper" Chinese words (電郵, 寄 and 睇) is not the most natural way of saying it.]
你唔可以企喺張枱上便 粵
You can't stand on the table. [Lit. you cannot stand at table surface. 唔可以 here carries the sense of "not allowed".]
你哋真係呃唔到人 粵
You're no good at fooling people. [Lit. you-[plural marker] really trick-not-arrive people]
你想學做生意？
So you want to be a businessman? [Lit. you want study do business? More direct translation: You want to study how to do business? This is a good example of a serial verb construction. There are three in a row here (想學做) but more are possible.]
嘩！你個男朋友咁鬼樣衰㗎! 粵
Oh my god! Your boyfriend is so ugly! [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131797,131965#msg-131965]
綠茶對你好有益㗎！ 粵 ?!
Green tea is very good (healthy) for you! [the audio actually mispronounced as 綿荼 (which either doesn't exist or really rare)]
咪郁啦!!你喺到郁嚟郁去我睇唔到前面呀。 粵
Don't move!! I can't see the front when you keep moving. [the meaning of 咪郁 and 唔好郁 is the same basically, but the young people would like to say 咪郁 more than 唔好郁.]
你慳返啖氣啦! 粵
Save your breath! [Said by someone who doesn't want to listen to what the other person is saying.]
你別這麼出爾反爾嘛﹗剛纔說要去﹐現在說不要了 — 你到底去不去啊﹖ 國
Stop changing your mind! A while ago, you said you wanted to go, but now you say you don't want to--are you really going or aren't you?
你真係嚟得著時 粵
You came at the right time [cf. [url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/examples/596/]opposite version[/url]]
你真係嚟得唔著時 粵
You come at a bad time. [cf. [url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/examples/595/]opposite version[/url]]
婆婆，你今年貴庚呀? 粵
Po Po (an elderly woman), how old are you? [Scenario: A person is talking to an elderly woman. ]
當你睇到呢封信嘅時候﹐我已經離開咗香港。 粵
By the time you read this letter, I will have already left Hong Kong. [This line of dialogue is often heard in TV soap operas! :-)]
我唔會對你做任何嘅嘢 粵
I'm not going to do anything to you. [Lit. I will not toward you do any (possessive particle) thing]
你唔要嘅話，可以送畀第二個 粵
If you don't want it, you can just give it to somebody else. [Lit. you don't want [conditional delimiter], can give-present give other person]
有好多頂頭盔畀你揀 粵
There are lots of helmets for you to choose. [Lit. have many [counter] helmets give you choose. Note: the counter is optional. 有好多頭盔畀你揀 is okay too.]
睇你嘅樣，真係好似好攰噉喎 粵
Seeing your face, you must be really tired. [Lit. see your face, really seem very tired [particles]]
呢一首好聽過你嗰隻好多呀 粵
This song is much nicer to listen to than yours! [Lit. This one [counter for songs] good-listen surpass yours [particle] lots]
我架車壞咗，你快啲派架拖車嚟啦！ 粵
My car's broken down, quickly send out a repair truck! [Lit. I [counter] car broken-already, you faster send-out [counter] drag-car come [particle]!]
我架車死咗火，你快啲派架拖車嚟啦！ 粵
My car's packed up, quickly send out a repair truck! [Lit. My [counter] car die-already fire, you faster send [counter] drag-car come [particle]! 死咗火 is more commonly used than 壞咗.]
你近排做嘅嘢，我哋好滿意 粵
We're satisfied with the work you've done recently. [Lit. You recently do [particle] things, we [meaningless word] satisfied. Here, 好 has no particular meaning, and just serves to introduce the adjective afterwards.]
你哋呢，係咪有好多男朋友㗎 粵
You must be popular with the boys! [Lit. you [plural] [clause delimiter], is-or-is-it-not have many boyfriend [particle]]
我頭先email畀你嗰啲資料，你收到未呀？ 粵
Have you get the information I emailed to you just now yet? [Lit. I just-now email give you that information, you receive not-yet [particle]?]
你要試吓佢程度喺邊度 粵
You need to find out what his level is like. [Lit. You need try-little he level at where. In this case, referencing a student's level of English. More explicitly, 你要試吓佢英文程度喺邊度.]
你要改你嘅學生嘅功課 粵
You need to mark your students' homework. [Lit. You need change [in the sense of correct] your student homework.]
點解我今日冇見到你呀 粵
Why didn't I see you today? [Lit. why I today not-have see-arrive you [particle]? [maybe on the telephone]]
你不愧係爸爸嘅仔 粵
You should be proud to be your father's son. [lit. you no shame be father [possessive particle] boy]
你竟然剩咁精緻嘅嘢 粵
I'd never have guessed you could make something so exquisite! [Lit. you unexpectedly make so exquisite [possessive particle] thing.]
你哋會唔會有啲拗撬呀？ 粵
Do you ever have arguments? [Lit. you-[plural marker] will-not-will have [plural classifier] arguments [particle]?]
你哋會唔會有啲火花呀？ 粵 ?!
Are there ever sparks between you? [Lit. you-[plural marker] will-not-will have [plural counter] sparks [particle]? The 'sparks' could possibly of anger or love. [Check please!]]
冇咗一對手，你就唔可以用筷子 粵 ?!
Now that you've lost both your hands, you can't use chopsticks any more. [Lit. don't-have already one pair hands, you then cannot use chopsticks. (Originally transcribed as 冇咗一隻手，你就唔可以用鍊金術... but 鍊金術 is hardly a useful word for learners.)]
你想食水果就要摘佢啦 粵
If you want to have some fruit you need to pick it [from the tree]. [Lit. you want eat fruit then pick it [particle]]
你以為我係邊個呀？ 粵
Who do you think I am?/Do you know who I am? [Lit. you mistakenly-believe I am who [particle]?]
你要大大方方噉見佢 粵
You need to meet her confidently. [Lit. you need confident-and-holding-yourself-properly-manner see her. 大大方方 means standing upright and looking someone in the eyes.]
你要做個有用嘅人 粵
Make yourself a useful person. [Lit. you need do [counter] useful [possessive particle] person]
你覺得英國同香港有啲乜嘢分別 粵
What differences do you perceive between England and Hong Kong? [Lit. you feel England with Hong Kong have [plural counter] what differences?]
你唔覺得英國凍得滯咩？ 粵 ?!
Don't you think the UK's too cold? [Lit. You not feel UK cold too-much [particle expressing surprise]]
我跟埋你去 粵
I'll come along with you. [[literal] I with along you go Please note that (1) the verb particle 埋 (along) follows the prep 跟 instead of the verb 去, and that (2) 埋 is optional and can be omitted (我跟你去 I'll go with you). ]
屎你要屙晒出嚟！ 粵
You need to get it all out of your system at once! [Talking about excretion.] [Lit. poo you need excrete all out! Note the X晒出嚟 construction here. 嘔晒出嚟 [throw everything up] 喊晒出嚟 [cry]]
呢件衫你愛唔愛㗎？ 粵
Do you want this piece of clothing? [Lit. this piece clothing you want not want [particle]?]
呢杯水你仲愛唔愛？ 粵
Do you still want this glass of water? [Note that the final syllable can be changed to something resembling tone 2 to form a question.]
唔該你同我睇住啲嘢。 粵
Please keep an eye on my stuff. [Parsing: 唔該 please | 你 you | 同 for | 我 me | 睇 watch | 住 keep | 啲嘢 the stuff.]
我隻手唔得閒，麻煩你幫我斟水！ 粵
My hands are full [at the moment]... could you get some water for me? [lit. my [counter] hand not free, trouble you help me pour water]
你知嘛﹐林仔係特登嚟睇你㗎。 粵
Young Lam has come especially to see you, you know. [係...㗎 (or 嘅) is used to emphasize a fact.]
你可以留低﹐亦可以走人﹐對我嚟講都冇所謂。 粵
You can stay or go, it's all the same to me. [Sometimes we need more Cantonese syllables to express the simple English word "or". It's 亦可以 in this sentence. ]
淨係你至有咩﹐我夠有咯。 粵
You aren't the only one who have it; I too have it. [夠 is used as an adverb that means "too".]
你唔好咁惡屎能登啦！ 粵
Don't be so mean! [The sound recording and the written sentence don't match. The recorder mispronounces 惡 (ok3) as ok6, 屎 (si2) as sei2, and 啦 (laa1) as aa1.]
估唔到會喺呢度見到你! 粵
Fancy seeing you here! [See the word entry for 估唔到 as the pronunciation for 到 can change depending on the meaning intended.]
如果你唔忙嘅話，你可唔可以幫我搬呢個櫃入去間房。 粵
If you're not too busy, could you help me move this dressor into the bedroom?
如果你唔想啲垃圾流出嚟，你要綁緊個垃圾袋！ 粵
If you don't want garbage to spill out, you'll need to tie the garbage bag tight!
你唔聽話, 就唔帶你去㗎喇! 粵
You better behave yourself else I won't take you there! [Here, 就...㗎喇 carries a more threatening tone, but still serves as a reminder.]
工作做唔晒，如果你要嚟幫，我會無任歡迎。 粵
Much work remains to be done. Any assistance that you can render is most welcome.
間餐廳嘅例湯賣來賣去都係嗰三幅被，重來冇新鮮啲嘅畀你試。 粵
This restaurant always serves the same soups; there's never a new thing for you to try.
你又唔係去見皇上，使唔使咁姿整呀? 粵
You are not meeting the emperor, do you need to be so particular about what you wear?
乜你講得咁𪙛𠸉㗎 ! 粵
How is it you speak with such a stutter? [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,134219,134225#msg-134225]
佢要嫁畀唐叔嘅仔你又唔肯，唔通要個女將來攝灶罅咩？ 粵
You disallow her despite her wanting to marry Ah Tong's son; don't tell me you want her to end up a spinster?
你加水太少,就會煲燶飯㗎。 粵
If you add too little water, you will burn the rice. [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,134219,134225#msg-134225]
真係要多謝你雪中送炭我哋先至會捱過難關 粵
We really must thank you for giving us (the money, food, material needs etc) so that we can make it through the hard times.
你有張良計，我有過牆梯
Yours is a good idea, but mine is an even better plan. [is an expression. 張良 was a famous master strategist. lit: You may have 張良's plan, but I have an escalade (a rampart-scaling ladder)]
你身高只有五呎九﹐想入籃球隊𠍁水啲噃。 粵
Your height of five-foot-nine is not tall enough to enter the basketball team.
好彩得到你細心查核，搵到問題嘅所在 粵
Fortunately due to your careful checks, we are able to find where the problem lies.
唔怪之得廚房啲罐頭逐一逐樣噉唔見咗，原來係你鼠竊狗偷 粵
No wonder the can foods in the kitchen has been disappearing one by one; so you are the one stealing them.
我同你冇仇噃，點解次次省波餅我食呢？ 粵
I didn't do anything to piss you off. Why are you throwing/kicking/[whatever action is appropriate] the ball at my body every time? [Alternative translation: There's no grudge between us, why are you hitting me with the balls that you return?]
靚女話要同你睇戲，你梗係𦧲飯應啦 粵
A pretty girl is willing to catch a movie with you. Surely that is something you wished for.
佢可以為咗你沕水撞牆都在所不惜。 粵
He would dive into the water and collide/crash at the wall for you, without regards for the consequences. [in other words: "He would do anything for you."]
你做初一我做十五
tit for tat, an eye for an eye [Lit. "what you do for the first half of the month, I will do back to you for the second half" i.e do me harm and I will return the favour. See a video featuring this phrase [url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?7,84620]here.[/url]]
我有壓力，你有壓力，你做咩要挑釁我？ 粵
"You have pressure, I have pressure, why do you want to provoke me?" [This infamous quote from 巴士阿叔 ("Bus Uncle") was a cultural phenomenon in 2006. See the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bus_Uncle.]
小小心意你咪受落啲禮物囉唔好抰嚟抰去 粵
It is a small token of appreciation, just accept the simple gift instead of pushing it back and forth.
人哋啱啱學廣東話，發音唔準，你就唔好嘥人啦。 粵
Her pronunciation is a bit off as she has started learning Cantonese not long ago. You shouldn't tease her. [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?1,135838,135838#msg-135838]
請你幫我買幾份報紙，南華、星島、明報各一份。
Please buy some newspapers for me, South China (Morning Post), Sing Tao (Daily) and Ming Pao (Daily), one each.
你一日食十包煙，想早啲釘蓋呀？ 粵
You smoke ten packs of cigarettes a day, (you) got a death wish? [Lit: You smoke ten packs of cigarettes a day, (you) want to die earlier?]
你同你嘅另一半有幾夾？ 粵
How compatible are you and your partner? [[Lit.] How compatible are you and your other half?]
唔該你快快脆脆洗晒啲碗(佢)。 粵
Please wash all the dishes quickly. [In this sample, the speaker is more likely to speak in an impatient manner.]
呢度小小心意，希望你笑納。 粵
Here is a little regards(gift), hope you would accept it gladly. [心意 is literally [n] "kind regards/ thoughts", it symbolizes a gift or a present.]
我未試過對我老婆唔住，你呢？ 粵
I have never cheated on my wife, (how about) you? [Literally] I haven't tried (and did something that I) cannot face to my wife, you? [whether it means "cannot face to/cannot confront with" or "sorry",to 對唔住 someone you're romantically involved,it mostly refers to you "cheat". Otherwise, it can means you did something that disappointed the other or you let someone down.]
見到你頭先嘅樣，我諗你已經知道咗呢本唔係普通嘅筆記啦 粵
Based on your expression just now, I guess you already know that this isn't an ordinary notebook. [Lit. see-arrive you just-not (possessive particle) expression, I think you already know-already, this (counter) isn't ordinary (possessive particle) notebook.]
原來係噉，反而係我畀你嚇一跳添 粵
On the contrary, it's me that's scared by you! [Lit. Originally like that, on the contrary it's me by you scared (particle) 原來係噉 is a useful phrase with no readily translatable meaning. (At least not consistently.)]
如果你真係有興趣學好廣東話嘅話，你就一定要聽多啲香港台 粵
If you want to learn Cantonese, you must listen to more Hong Kong radio. [Lit. If you really have interest study-well Cantonese [conditional delimiter], you then must listen more Hong Kong channel.]
今次你真係有排煩 粵
Now you've got a whole bunch of problems. [Lit. This-time you really have unending problems.]
唔使幾耐，你就可以睇到一出精彩嘅好戲 粵
In due course, you'll see a spectacular display. [Lit. in good time, you then can see-arrive one [counter] brilliant [possessive particle] play. 不消多久=唔使幾耐]
你琴晚劈酒劈到醉醉地 粵
You got pretty drunk last night. [Lit. you yesterday evening binge-alcohol binge-arrive drunk-ish]
唔好意思，要你親自出馬 粵
Sorry to make you come and personally deal with this. [Lit. sorry, need you personally come-out horse]
你要掉咗啲垃圾, 間辦公室好亂 粵
Can you bin the junk that's lying around? The office is a mess. [Lit. you need throw-away [particle used in imperatives] [plural particle] rubbish, [counter] office very messy Other words you could use instead of 好亂: 好亂龍, 亂晒, 亂晒龍, or 亂晒大龍]
真係令人好懷念，一個世紀之後你又返嚟啦 粵
We've really missed you while you've been gone the last 100 years. [Lit. really make-people very miss-you, one century afterwards again return come [particle] This is being said to someone who's lived several hundred years (specifically Greed from Full Metal Alchemist).]
你想學做生意呢，第一樣嘢就係要學奸 粵
If you wanna be a businessman, the first thing you gotta learn is how to play dirty. [Lit. you want study do business, number one [counter] thing is-exactly study wickedness]
似乎我幫唔到你，都係交個波畀人罷啦。 粵
Seems there's nothing I can do to help you so I'm just gonna have to pass the buck on to someone else. [Further discussion: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?7,84284,111096#msg-111096]
聽日講嗰啲嘢你準備好未? 粵
Have you finished preparing the stuff you're talking about tomorrow? [As this sentence consists of a long relative clause 聽日講嗰啲嘢, a topic-comment construction like the above is preferred to a subject-verb-object construction like 你準備好聽日講嗰啲嘢未. ]
唔知點解佢要搵你算賬。 粵
I don't know why he has a bone to pick with you. [[literal] Don't know why he has to with you settle accounts. ]
我𠱓你幾耐你先肯著返條褲呀？ 粵
How long did I have to nag you before you agreed to put your pants back on? [http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,120693]
邊個叫你做㗎,吓? 粵
Who told you to do this, really? [㗎 is a final particle used here to soften an assertive question. 吓 functions like a question tag that does not carry any actual meaning. ]
吓,點解你要噉樣做? 粵
Tut-tut, what on earth did you do that for? [吓 is an exclamation used here to express disapproval. ]
你個仔咁高喎! 粵
Your son is quite tall! [When pronounced in tone 4, 喎 shows that the speaker is quite surprised. ]
聽日嘅聚會﹐我會戴住你送嘅頸鏈。 粵
At tomorrow's gathering, I will be wearing the necklace you gave me. [住 (-ing) is a durative marker in a future tense sentence here.]
等到你返嚟嗰陣﹐佢已經走咗三日喇。 粵
By the time you return, he will have already been gone for three days. [咗 (have been) is a perfective marker in a future tense sentence here.]
點解你洗嚫碗都打爛嘢㗎？
Why is it that every time you wash dishes you break something? [[粵] V-嚫 ... 都... Pattern the means every time someone does something, such and such will happen.]
我使驚你,怕你有牙呀？ 粵
I am not afraid of you. It's not like you have any real bite. [For first part, see http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?7,138128,138130#msg-138130 For latter part, see http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?8,135281,135283#msg-135283]
我今朝發咗個夢，係關於你嘅。 喺夢裡面我見到你同我一齊玩器械。 粵
This morning I had a dream, it was about you. In the dream I saw us playing the equipment together
雖然你老公喺出便嫖賭飲吹，但至少佢識賺錢返嚟養家，你咪冇眼屎乾淨盲囉 粵
Despite all the vices outside, your husband brings home money to support the family, you should just pretend you don't know and choose to be happy.
佢頭先搵你嚟。 粵
He has just been looking for you. [The final particle 嚟 indicates the completion of an action.] Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/3/]你[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/3/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">你</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 你
Unicode code for this character: U+4f60 (off-site link)
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/3/]你[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/3/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">你</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 你
Unicode code for this character: U+4f60 (off-site link)
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- a list of characters which look similar and are therefore possible sources of confusion (where relevant)
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