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唔買走寶。
m4 maai5 zau2 bou2
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If you don't buy it, you'll miss out on this best buy. This four-character sentence is compressed from a longer one "如果你唔買,你就走寶。" Here, the correlative conjunctions (如果/就) and the subject (你) are omitted.
This sentence is in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵 Level: 4 |
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m4 - not; no 買 maai5 - buy; purchase 走寶 zau2 bou2 - 粵 miss out on something good |
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| This sentence was added by C Chiu and last edited on 10th Dec 2014 04:37 | |
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