做嘢 (zou6 je5 | zuo4 ye3) : to work; to do things

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做嘢

zou6 je5

zuo4 ye3

[1] to do things; to do sth.; to do stuff | Std. Chin.: 做東西 [2] to do work; to work; to be at work; to attend to matters; to carry out a task | Std. Chin.: 幹活; 幹事; 做事; 作事; 辦事; 辦公

Level: 1 Google Frequency: 3,700

This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

做嘢

This word has been viewed 8378 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by tym on 3rd Sep 2005 12:54 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03

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做 zou6 - do, make
嘢 je5 - [粵] thing; articles

1 compounds containing this word:

唔做嘢 - to not do sth.

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我喺學校做嘢粵
I work at school

我對鞋畀我做嘢嗰度個秘書收埋咗粵
My shoes were hidden by the secretary at work.
[Lit. I pair shoes by I work there [classifier] secretary hide-already]

我平時做嘢好敷衍粵
I'm normally pretty apathetic about my work.
[You can also say 我平時做嘢做得好敷衍.]

你成日食嘢唔做嘢；搏炒係咪? 粵
You're forever eating and not doing work; are you trying to get fired?

佢做嘢咁慢，做到天光都做唔完啦！粵
He works so slowly, he won't be even finished by [next] morning.

佢做嘢好快手，之不過有時揦西啲粵
He is very fast in what he does, but occasionally he can be sloppy.

冷靜啲，就繼續做嘢。粵
Keep Calm and Carry On

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