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佢偷公司錢﹐結果冇咗份工。
keoi5 tau1 gung1 si1 cin4*2, git3 gwo2 mou5 zo2 fan6 gung1 |
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He stole money from the company and has, consequently, lost his job. Compared with English version, a typical Cantonese sentence does not need article (the), pronoun (his), preposition (from), and conjunction (and). But it needs a classifier (份) not found in English version.
This sentence is in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵 Level: 2 |
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佢偷公司錢﹐結果冇咗份工。 | |
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keoi5 - he; him; his; she; her; hers; it 偷 tau1 - steal, burgle; sneak 公司 gung1 si1 - company; firm; corporation 錢 cin4 cin4*2 - cash, money, coins 結果 git3 gwo2 - result; finish off 冇 mou5 - don't have 咗 zo2 - already 份 fan6 - portion; part; share 工 gung1 - labour; work |
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This sentence was added by C Chiu and last edited on 22nd Jan 2015 10:10 |