間 (gaan1 gaan3 | jian1 jian4) : interval of time or space

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間

gaan1 gaan3

jian1 jian4

[粵] gaan1 | [國] jian1
[1] [n] space between; relationship among; interval
[2] [n] (within) a definite time or space
[3] [n] room; cubicle; workshop
[4] classifier for shop, house, bedroom, etc

[粵] gaan3 | [國] jian4
[1] [n] opening; gap; break
[2] [v] separate; alternate; partition
[3] [v] sow discord; drive a wedge

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

間 / 间

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This word has been viewed 26489 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 17th Aug 2013 04:49

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按時間先後 on3 si4 gaan3 sin1 hau6 an4 shi2 jian4 xian1 hou4 = chronological

之間 zi1 gaan1 zhi1 jian1 = between; in the middle of

任何時間 jam6 ho4 si4 gaan1*3 ren4 he2 shi2 jian1 = anytime

午間 ng5 gaan1 wu3 jian1 = noon; midday

時間 si4 gaan3; si4 gaan1 shi2 jian1 = time

洗手間 sai2 sau2 gaan1 xi3 shou3 jian1 = washroom

中間 zung1 gaan1 zhong1 jian1 = middle; centre; (placename) Chung Kan

什麼時間 sam6 mo1 si4 gaan1*3 shen2/she2 me5 shi2 jian1 = when? what time? 國

嘥時間 saai1 si4 gaan1*3 = to waste time 粵

一陣間 jat1 zan6 gaan1 = soon; a moment; a while 粵
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嗰間餐廳啲嘢好好食㗎！粵
The food at that restaurant is excellent!

呢間大學好有名㗎！? 粵
This university is very famous!

呢度有一間警崗粵
There's a police box here.

呢間屋企有地毡粵
This house is carpeted.
[Lit. This [counter] house have carpet]

聖誕期間﹐電視有好多好戲睇! 粵
There are lots of good films on TV at Christmas!

聖誕期間，電視上播很多好看的電影國
There are lots of good films on TV at Christmas!

一日煮足三餐都幾嘥時間。粵
It is very time-consuming if the three meals of a day are all made by me.

我見到呢度有一間唔係好大嘅警崗粵
I can see a police box that's not very big here.
[Lit. I see-arrive here have one [counter] is-not very big [possessive particle] police box. You CANNOT say 唔大 or 唔好大 instead of 唔係好大, although it may sound like either one if a speaker is talking very quickly. 唔大 should be 細.]

廁所魔鏡，世間上邊個最靚？粵
Mirror mirror on the washroom wall, who's the fairest one of all?
[Lit. toilet magic-mirror, world on which-one most pretty?]

呢間房黑猛猛粵
This room is pitch black.

間辦公室俾啲細路搞到立立亂。粵
The office was turned upside-down by the kids.
[[parsing] (classifier) office by (plural classifier) kids make (extent particle) chaotic http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,128766 ]

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)]

乜呢間酒店咁噏耷㗎? 點會有人幫襯呀? 粵
Why's this hotel such a mess? How will anyone want to come here?
[Lit. what this [counter] hotel so shabby [particle]? How would have person would frequent [particle]]

我近排好忙﹐冇時間照顧仔女。粵
I'm too busy these days to have time to take care of my children.
[The English phrase "too busy to have time" becomes "too busy and have no time" in Cantonese.]

可惜那天限於時間，我們沒有就這個問題作深入的交談。國
Unfortunately, owing to the lack of time that day, we weren't able to discuss this problem in depth.

慳返啲時間粵
to save (back) some time

我想租一間包括水電費的房子。國
I want to rent a house that has utilities included.

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.

請小心列車與月台間之空隙
Please mind the gap between the train and the platform
[MTR announcement]

間公司專門生產電腦。粵
The company specializes in producing computers.

間房係專門用嚟開會嘅。粵
The room is given over to meetings.

基本上間屋布置好咗，剩番啲頭頭尾尾啫粵
The house is basically well-decorated. What remains to be done are just some odds and ends.

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.

間工廠畀火燒，旁邊嘅住宅都殃及池魚粵
The nearby houses were not spared when the factory caught fire.

有邊讀邊，沒邊讀中間。國
Read the side if any; read the middle part if there is no side.
[This is a guesswork method people use to read a Chinese character when they do not know its exact pronunciation.]

間酒店冇理由咁平格，話唔定啲房有鬼。粵
There is no reason why the rates for this hotel is so low. Maybe there are ghosts in the rooms.
[Final particle 格 is the affective version of 㗎.]

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.]

時間嘅配合好難以置信粵
The coincidentalness of the timing is too hard to believe.

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]

突然間食咁多芒果，我覺得佢好𠺫𠵇粵
I think he's very strange, suddenly eating all those mangoes like that.
[Lit. suddenly eat so many mangoes, I think he very strange.]

我企喺朋友間屋嘅屋頂上面粵
I'm standing on the roof of my friend's house.
[Equivalently: 我企喺朋友間屋嘅屋頂度]

四月尾忽然間落場大雪，真係「未食五月粽，寒衣唔入籠」！粵
It suddenly snowed during the end of April. "Until it's time to eat Dragon Boat Festival's dumplings, don't put away your warm clothes," as they say!
[未食五月粽寒衣唔入籠 is a Cantonese saying. There are variations used by Mandarin and other dialects.]

經濟衰退嘅成因係消費、投資及資產價格之間唔平衡。粵
Inequilibrium in expenditure, investment and the prices of assets and properties would cause an economic downturn.

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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