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佢嚇暈咗。
keoi5 haak3 wan4 zo2
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She had such a fright that she fainted. Compared with its English counterpart, a Cantonese sentence that uses a resultative particle (暈 in this case) is much simpler in structure.
This sentence is in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵 Level: 1 |
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keoi5 - he; him; his; she; her; hers; it 嚇 haak3 haa1 - frighten, threaten 暈咗 wan4 zo2 - 粵 to lose consciousness |
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| This sentence was added by C Chiu and last edited on 21st Oct 2014 14:06 | |
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