去 (heoi3 heoi2 | qu4 qu3) : go; leave; past; remove

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heoi3 heoi2

qu4 qu3

[粵] heoi3 | [國] qu4
[1] [v] go to/away; leave (for); depart from
[2] [v] be apart from in space or time
[3] [adj] past; previous; last
[4] [phonetics] departing tone
[5] verb particle indicating direction

[粵] heoi2 | [國] qu3
[v] get rid of; remove; do away with

The readings heoi2/qu3 occur mostly in classical texts or in quotations of such texts that occur in contemporary language. Some would use heoi3/qu4 on all occasions.

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Stroke count: 5

Level: 1

Radical: 厶 (#28)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

去

This word has been viewed 42680 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 16th Jun 2013 11:10

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抹去 mut3 heoi3 mo3 qu4 = To erase

出去 ceot1 heoi3 chu1 qu4 = to exit

過去 gwo3 heoi3 guo4 qu4 = go over there; in the past; past tense

去年 heoi3 nin4*2 qu4 nian2 = last year 國

上去 soeng5 heoi3 shang4 qu5 = to go up; to ascend

去街 heoi3 gaai1 = to go out (to town) 粵

入去 jap6 heoi3 ru4 qu4 = to enter; go in 粵

落去 lok6 heoi3 = go down; down; carrying on 粵

下去 haa6 heoi3 xia4 qu4 = go down; descend 國

進去 zeon3 heoi3 jin4 qu4 = go in 國
See all 118 compounds (CantoDict reports 123 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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你今日打算去邊度呀？粵
Where do you plan on going today?

其實我想去，不過我有太多功課。
Actually I want to go, but I have too much homework.

你去邊處呀? 粵
Where are you going?

我想去德國旅行。粵
I want to travel Germany.

阿爸阿媽日日都去晨運。粵
Papa and mama go exercising every morning.

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.]

我從來都沒去過日本。國
I have never been to Japan.

我哋可以去圖書館或者返屋企。粵
We can go to the library or perhaps go home.

我哋一係去圖書館一係返屋企。粵
We either go the the library or go home.

我以為你去咗華埠，其實你返咗屋企。粵
I thought you went to Chinatown, but in fact you went home.

首先去圖書館，然後返屋企。粵
First go to the library, then afterwards go home.

有冇去禮拜堂呀? 粵
Do you go to church?

我就快搬去棟新大廈
I will move to a new building soon.

如果我唔係太攰，我會去買嘢。粵
If I'm not too tired, I will go shopping.

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.]

不如去雞記食早餐囉! 粵
Let's go to KFC have a breakfast.

你把聖誕卡全部都寄出去了嗎？國
Have you sent all of your Christmas cards yet?

我同埋你一齊去粵
I'll join you and go together.

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?

佢俾警察拉咗去。粵
He was arrested by the police.

鴨子在池塘裡游來游去國
The ducks on the pond are swimming to and fro.
[The meaning of 游來游去 is discussed [url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?7,74996,77053#msg-77053]here.[/url] ]

條金魚喺魚缸裏面游嚟游去。粵
The goldfish is swimming in the aquarium.

不如一齊去踢波。粵
Let's go and play football.

喺街上面唔好走嚟走去。粵
Don't chase around on the street.

阿媽去咗超級市場買嘢。粵
Mum has gone shopping in a supermarket.

搭幾號巴士可以去到上環？粵
Which bus can take me to Sheung Wan?

請問喺伊到可以搭咩車去科大？粵
Excuse me, do you know what public transport can take me to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (from here)?

我日日掛住去玩。粵
Every day, my mind is on playing.

水去到一百度就會滾。粵
Water boils at one hundred degree (Celcius).

幾時先去食飯呀？粵
When do we go having meal?

我哋去過九龍粵
We've been to Kowloon.

我冇去香港粵
I didn't go to Hong Kong.

我冇去過香港粵
I have never been to Hong Kong.

頭先佢話啲伙記已經出晒去粵
Just now he said all the delivery boys had gone out.

讀書，你決定去美國定去法國呀？粵
Have you decided to go to America or France to study?

真係無聊，我唔想玩落去啦！粵
You're being ridiculous, I don't want to mess around any more.
[Lit. really nonsense, I not want play-continue [particle]. 落去 has the meaning of "continue" here and may be suffixed to many verbs.]

佢成日掛住去蒲，唔想返學。粵
He'd rather go out partying than go to school.
[Lit. He always miss hang out, not want return school. Less idiomatically: He misses hanging out, he doesn't want to go to school. See http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,134171,page=1]

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). ]

佢今朝要去見工。粵
He's attending a job interview this morning.
[[國] 他今天早上要去參加求職面試。]

老細話去邊﹐我哋就去邊。粵
We'll go wherever the boss says.
[Cantonese sentences often feature a balanced structure with repetitive wordings rather than a simple structure. ]

你講去邊度？粵
Where are you going with this?

我問佢跟住去邊度。粵
I asked him where to go next.
[Cantonese grammar has the adverb 邊度 (where) placed at the end of sentence.]

落完雪之後，我哋大家出去砌雪人。粵
After the snow stopped falling, we all went out to build a snowman.

我往常都是步行去上班。國
I used to go to work on foot.

這些囚犯被分批帶出去槍斃了。國
The prisoners were led out in batches and shot.

他興奮地去圖書館。國
He goes to the library with excitement.
[地 is used as an adjunct after a word (pinyin: de5)]

唔知阿蓮要去唔去。粵
Not sure whether Ah Lin wants to go or not.

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?

跟我入去我間實驗室。你睇吓我嘅雷射。粵
Follow me into my lab and take a look at my laser.

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.]

橫掂都出咗嚟，順便去睇戲啦。粵
Let's go for a movie as we are already here anyway!

髧條繩落去! 粵
Drop a rope down there!
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囉條繩緙住唔畀人入去粵
Encircle it with ropes to bar people from entry.

抨佢出去! 粵
Get him out of here!

咁遠我唔去囉, 何況而家落緊雨粵
I won't go that far away; moreover, it's raining now.

邊個叫佢眼高手低吖；無論佢嘅目標有幾崇高，佢都冇能力去做嘅。粵
It's such a pity that no matter how big his aims are, he hasn't the ability to see them through.

園主又打發了另一個僕人去，他們也把那人打了，並加以侮辱，放他空手回去。國
And again he (the lord of the vinyard) sent another servant. But they beat him also. They humiliated him, sent him away empty handed. (Luke 20:11)

係環境被逼先至去標參 粵
The circumstances forced him to kidnap.

個仔成日去賭錢，做亞媽嘅都好激氣粵
As a mother, she is very upset with her son gambling.

反到成身都咁𣲷/nap6/,重唔去沖個涼粵
You are all sweaty and sticky after playing. Quickly go for your shower.

我通常𨂾一個禮拜去facial一次粵
I usually go for facial once every week.

家下都𨂾光黑，我睇係嚟唔切去架喇！粵
It is already dusk, I don't think we can make it in time.

你離緊去邊度做呀？粵
Where will you work in the future?

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.

佢胃唔好痛到喺張床度捵嚟捵去粵
He has gastritis; it hurts so much that he tosses and turns on his bed.

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?

呢𢱢蘋果你攞去食啦粵
Take and eat this slice of apple

而家噉嘅情況佢重有心情去游山玩水? 粵
He still has the mood to go for sightseeing at a time like this?

騎樓嘅花盆危危乎，隨時都會跌落去噉粵
The pots on the balcony seems unstable enough to fall off anytime.

老師帶我哋去參觀二次大戰博物館同軍人塚。粵
The teacher brought us to the museum and memorial tombs of World War II.

溝啲水落去就唔會咁掯喉嘞粵
Add some water into it and it wouldn't taste so overpowering.

帶你去睇一個別具一格嘅建築物。粵
I will bring you to see a unique building.

佢揸住國旗搰嚟搰去粵
He is swaying the flag that is in his hands.

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.

唔好篩嚟篩去粵
Do not sway about

我去郵局白行咗一趟。粵
I made a futile trip to the post office.

鬼知佢尋晚去咗邊。粵
Who (the hell) knows where he went last night. [as in "I don't know where he went last night"]
[邊 is short for 邊度]

你嗱嗱聲做埋啲嘢，然後去食飯啦！粵
You should hurry up and finish your work, so that you can have your meal!

呢個復活節係咪去北海道滑雪,重係十劃都未有一撇。粵
It's still far too early to tell if we are going skiing in Hokkaido this Easter.
[In this sentence, the third character 都 in the idiom 十劃都未有一撇 could be moved three spaces up so that the latter half of the sentence would become 都重係十劃未有一撇. The meaning would remain the same. ]

我哋會瞓身去做好呢份工。粵
We'll give this job our best shot.

唔知佢揗咗去邊度。粵
We don't know where he has wandered off to.

我攞咗上個禮拜買嗰件衫去乾洗粵
I took the shirt I bought last week to be dry-cleaned.
[Lit. I took-already last-week bought that (counter) shirt go dry-clean]

我攞咗上個禮拜買嗰啲衫去乾洗粵
I took the clothes I bought last week to be dry-cleaned.
[Lit. I took-already last-week bought those shirts go dry-clean]

我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺廣城買嗰件衫去洗粵
I took the shirt I bought two weeks ago at the shopping mall to be cleaned.
[Lit. I took two weeks ago at shopping mall buy that shirt go clean]

兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫，我攞咗佢去熨。粵
I took the shirts that I bought two weeks ago at my favourite shop to be ironed.
[Note: although the verb and object could be separated by the lengthy adjective clause 兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買, it's more natural and more easily understood use the topicalised construction in this example.]

我想等陣去銀行幫人哋入票粵
I want to go to the bank in a moment to cash a cheque.

佢頭先話畀我聽佢想等陣去銀行幫人哋入票粵
He told me he wanted to go to the bank soon to cash a cheque for someone.
[頭先 implies 10 or 20 minutes ago; contrast with 啱啱 which implies a few seconds ago.]

我等陣想去銀行幫人哋入票粵
I'll want to go to the bank to cash a cheque for someone soon.
[Shouldn't be parsed as 我等陣(我哋) but as 我等陣]

我隻腳有三粒蚊𧕴，好有可能係因為我前日去公園。粵
There are three bites on my leg... it's probably because I was in the park the day before yesterday.
[Lit. I [counter] leg have three mosquito-bites, very probable is because I day-before-yesterday go park]

張櫈咁濕，咪𠱂落去。粵
Don't rashly sit on the chair; it's so wet.

學校咁大﹐唔知去邊度搵佢至啱。粵
The school is so big. I wonder which way I should actually go to find him.
[唔知 ("don't know") and 至啱 ("most correct") function as a split phrase. The slot between them can be filled by any verb phrase of interrogative nature. ]

我哋去到嗰陣﹐場面十分墟冚。粵
The scene was all alive by the time we arrived.

你講咗去邊？粵
Where are you going with this?

我去嚫旅行都坐國泰。
Every time I go to travel I take Cathay Pacific.
[[粵] V-嚫 ... 都... Pattern that means every time someone does something, such and such will happen.]

你去唔去得㗎? 粵
Would you go after all?
[Alternatively, we can say 你到底去唔去? ]

呢件事睇起嚟好困難﹐但係做落去好容易。粵
This task seems quite difficult, but doing it is really easy.
[Aspect markers 起嚟 and 落去 function rather like antonyms, originally meaning "starting to" and "carrying on" respectively. ]

再係噉落去, 會輸晒啲錢架粵
If you keep going on like this, you would lose all your money.

我地坐的士去咧? 粵
Let's take a taxi, shall we?

揈乾隻手先至出去粵
Shake off water from your hand before going out.

跟住個報廢及消帳手續去做就啱㗎喇粵
Follow the condemnation and write-off procedures and you can't go wrong.

我等陣去佢間舖頭打墩﹐傾吓偈同消磨吓時間。粵
I'm going to his store and spend a long time there in a moment, to chat, and to kill time.

我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫去熨粵
I've taken the shirt that I bought in my favourite clothes shop two weeks ago to be ironed.
[[literal] I taken-have two-weeks-ago in my most-like that-(classifier)-clothes-shop buy that-(classifier)-shirt go iron This Cantonese example shows how a relative clause is composed without a relative pronoun. ]

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