啦 (laa1 laa3 laa4 | la5) : [final particle] now

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啦

laa1 laa3 laa4

la5

[final particle] now; right now; up to now

laa3/la5 - basic connotation of "now"; Canto 啦 sometimes written as 喇.
laa1/la5 - 'livelier' version of laa3.
laa4/la5 - "now" + doubt/surprise/disapproval

[粵] 啦 laa3 = 囉 lo3 + 呀 aa3
[國] 啦 la5 = 了 le5 + 啊 a5

Both 囉 and 了 are final particles that refer to sth about current situation ("now").

Stroke count: 11

Level: 2

Radical: 口 (#30)

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

啦

This word has been viewed 26037 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 1st Nov 2012 16:20

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係噉啦 hai6 gam2 laa1 = so be it; let it be this way; it's a deal 粵

係啦 hai6*2 laa1 = expresses resolutely "it is so" 粵

啦啦聲 laa4 laa4*2 seng1 = quickly; hurry 粵

無啦啦 mou4 laa1 laa1 = suddenly; without reason 粵

起筷啦 hei2 faai3 laa1 = "help yourself" at dinner table 粵

睇過先啦 tai2 gwo3 sin1 laa1 = that depends 粵

睇吓先啦 tai2 haa5 sin1 laa1 = take a look 粵

由得佢啦 jau4 dak1 keoi5 laa1 = to leave well alone; let him alone 粵

都好啦 dou1 hou2 laa1 = "it will be fine"

睇嚟湊啦 tai2 lai4 cau3 laa1 = that depends 粵
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王先生後日就返啦。粵
Mr. Wong will be coming back the day after tomorrow.

我下個星期就返香港啦。粵
I'm going back to Hong Kong next week.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131797]

教我做功課啦！ ?
Help me with my homework!
[Lit. teach me do homework]

坐低啦！粵
Sit down!

媽咪好似返咗嚟啦喎
Seems like Mum's back home!
[Lit. mum seems return-already come [particles]]

食完飯先至計啦粵
I'll have dinner first and then sort it out!
[Lit. eat-finish-rice only-then do. Std. Chinese: 吃完飯再計算吧]

你哋唔使同我爭啦！粵
You don't need to fight with me!

我真係輸咗啦… 粵
I've lost (this contest)...
[Note that 真係 isn't necessarily translated into English - sometimes it's used where an English speaker would just add extra emphasis onto the word. In this case, "I've *lost*!"]

唔好再喊啦粵
Stop crying.
[Lit. don't continue cry.]

唔好追佢啦！粵
Don't chase him!
[Here, the guy is actually running away.]

不如你試吓答啦？粵
Why don't you try to answer?
[^already a literal translation]

我食飽啦！粵
I'm full!

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.]

你一有消息就通知我啦。
Once you have the news then let me know.

就嚟悶到我死啦。粵
I am being bored to death.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131797,132172#msg-132172]

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.]

行開啦,煩人! 粵
Beat it, you're troublesome!

我地七點喺七仔等啦。粵
We meet (outside) at Seven-Eleven shop at 7:00.

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.]

唔使除鞋啦! 粵
Don't take off your shoes!

生性啲啦! 粵
Behave yourself!

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.]

唔好摸啲白鴿啦，佢哋非常之揦鮓粵
Don't touch the pigeons, they're very dirty.
[Lit. don't touch [plural counter] pigeons [particle], they extremely dirty Other synonyms for 揦鮓: 污糟 and 污糟邋遢 ]

跌親就企返起身啦！粵
If you fall over, get back up again!
[Lit. fall bad-thing, stand back up body. As the translation suggests, this is actually a conditional sentence, even though it might not seem like it. More explicitly we could say 如果你跌親嘅話，你就企返起身啦！]

唔好嘈住我啦，唔知有幾多嘢做粵 ?!
Don't disturb me, I'm up to my eyes in work.
[Lit. don't disturb me, don't know how-much work [to] do.]

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]]

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.]

𡃇啦，唔通冇晒廁紙咩？粵
Uh-oh, don't tell me we're out of toilet roll...
[Lit. Crap, could-it-be don't-have all toilet paper [particle]?]

佢就嚟十五歲嘅啦粵
He's almost 15 years old.
[Lit. he almost 15 year [particles]]

間房係屈質啲,將就下啦。粵
The room is indeed cramped, please make do with it.
[[i]literal[/i] (classifier) room is cramped indeed, make-do-with a-little (particle)]

搵日一齊食飯啦。粵
Let's have lunch together some day.
[The Cantonese word order 搵日 (some day) 一齊 (together) 食飯 (have lunch) 啦 (let's) is the exact opposite of the English version.]

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.]

快啲行啦，唔係就遲到㗎喇。粵
Please be quicker, otherwise it will be late.

今晚咁多餸；梗係食唔晒啦。粵
There's so much food tonight; of course I can't finish the lot.

唔好搞爛gag 啦! 粵
Stop making crappy jokes.

唔好笑得咁大聲啦！畀人歧視喇！
Don't laugh so loudly! We are being discriminated!

佢咁醜，梗係追唔到女仔啦! 粵
He's so ugly, of course he can't get a girl(friend)!

咁夜重上網？不如聽朝再玩過啦！粵
Still surfing the web at this time of the night? Why don't you (go to bed) and go online again in the morning?

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!

佢病咗, 唔怪之得唔嚟啦! 粵
He is sick. No wonder he's failed to turn up!

你條女發嬲啦，仲唔快啲箍煲粵
Your girl is throwing tantrums. Quickly go appease her.

九大簋加上美女就真係錦上添花啦粵
Having this feast with such beauties is indeed beyond perfection.

佢做嘢咁慢，做到天光都做唔完啦！粵
He works so slowly, he won't be even finished by [next] morning.

你哋冇幾何嚟就坐耐啲啦粵
As you all seldom come, do stay (sit) a little longer.

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

快啲畀電話人啦，費時佢牽腸掛肚噃粵
Give her a call. Don't make her worry.

你認真啲讀書啦粵
Be serious about your studies.

你不用貓哭耗子假慈悲啦國
There's no need for you to shed crocodile tears!

噉嘅設計好定壞就見仁見智啦粵
Whether such a design is good or bad, is a matter of opinion.

就至講過又唔記得啦粵
Yet again you can’t remember what I’ve just said!

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.

收聲啦, 嘈到拆樓咁! 粵
Shut up, you're making a lot of noise!

你就手下留情放佢哋一馬啦。粵
Show some mercy and let them go.

佢梗係唔及得你叻啦！粵
He is definitely not as clever as you.

佢今年八十歲啦，重係咁精神爽利粵
She is already eighty this year, yet she is still full of life and zest.

而家佢著緊草，梗係聯絡佢唔到啦粵
He is definitely uncontactable now since he is on the run.

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]

李連杰都算幾錫身,導演都幫佢搵埋替身啦粵
Jet Li takes pretty good care of himself, his movie director even found a stand-in for him.
[(So that he doesn't have to do the stunts himself.)]

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!

多謝嗮你噃，承惠十一銀啦。粵
Thank you. Please pay eleven dollars.

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.]

唔好摸啲老鼠啦，佢哋污糟邋遢粵
Don't touch the rats, they're extremely dirty.
[You could also add in a 好 in this case (i.e. 佢哋好污糟邋遢) with no real difference in meaning.]

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).]

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]

慳啲啦! 粵
Shut up! | Cut it out! | Save your breath!
[a shortened form of "save your breath"]

等到差佬來，蚊都瞓啦！粵 ?!
[粵] paint will dry before the cops come! lit. to wait for the policeman to come, mosquitos would be asleep

就算華佗在世都醫唔好啦粵
There would not be a cure even if Hua Tuo is alive.
[Hua Tuo was a famous doctor in the Three Kingdoms period. The alternative is '華佗再世' meaning the rebirth of Waa4 To4 ]

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