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I just wasn't able to stop him. Lit. I basically block-not-arrive him.
This sentence is in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵 The construction verb-m4-dou2 indicates an inability to complete the action. So, block-not-arrive is idiomatically "unable to block". Level: 2 |
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ngo5 - I; me; my 根本 gan1 bun2 - basically 阻住 zo2 zyu6 - 粵 to block; to be in the way 唔 m4 - not; no 到 dou3 dou3*2 - arrive; go to 佢 keoi5 - he; him; his; she; her; hers; it |
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