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佢唔肯聽我講。
keoi5 m4 hang2 teng1 ngo5 gong2
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He refused to listen to me. An example of a Cantonese sentence using more verbs (3 verbs) than its English counterpart (2 verbs).
This sentence is in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵 Level: 2 |
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keoi5 - he; him; his; she; her; hers; it 唔 m4 - not; no 肯 hang2 - willing to; agree 聽 ting1 ting3 teng1 - listen to; obey; allow 我 ngo5 - I; me; my 講 gong2 - say; speak |
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| This sentence was added by C Chiu and last edited on 15th Dec 2014 13:13 | |
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