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佢哋
keoi5 dei6
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them; they | Third-party plural pronoun | Std. Chin.: 他們 (masculine, mixed or general); 她們 (feminine); 它們 (non-human)  Level: 1 Google Frequency: 10,600 This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵 |
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Characters in this word:佢 keoi5 - he; him; his; she; her; hers; it哋 dei6 dei6*2 - somewhat; (plural/adverb suffix) 2 compounds containing this word:佢哋嘅 - their; theirs佢哋自己 - themselves |
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Showing 10 of 16 examples containing 佢哋 
佢哋嘅分別只有半年。 粵
There's only half a year's difference between them. [Lit. Their difference only have half year]
佢哋終於喺返埋一齊 粵
In the end they got back together again. [終於 here implies that the event of them getting back together happened a while ago (maybe a year or two) and that you've only just found out.]
佢哋卒之喺返埋一齊 粵
In the end they got back together again. [卒之, as with 終於, implies that the event of them getting back together happened a while ago (maybe a year or two) and that you've only just found out.]
佢哋最後喺返埋一齊 粵
They recently got back together. [最後 implies something that happened recently - in this context, probably days or at most a month.]
唔好摸啲白鴿啦，佢哋非常之揦鮓 粵
Don't touch the pigeons, they're very dirty. [Lit. don't touch [plural counter] pigeons [particle], they extremely dirty Other synonyms for 揦鮓: 污糟 and 污糟邋遢 ]
前日佢哋一齊食咗兩餐飯。 粵
They took their meal twice together the day before yesterday. [Here, 餐 is [i]not[/i] a classifier that modifies the noun 飯. It is a verb measure that quantifies the verb 食.] | ||
2 Cantonese Homophones / Homophone Variants for this word:
其等
keoi5 dei6 = they, them
佢地
keoi5 dei6 = they; them 粵Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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