落去 (lok6 heoi3 | ) : go down; down; carrying on

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落去

lok6 heoi3

[1] [v] go down; descend
[2] [adv] down; downward
[3] [aspect] carrying on an action; keeping a condition unchanged

[antonym] 起嚟 | [國] 下去

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Level: 2 Google Frequency: 256,000

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

落去

This word has been viewed 5803 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by tym on 12th Nov 2004 09:54 and last edited on 28th Oct 2014 10:26

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落 lok6 laai6 - to fall
去 heoi3 heoi2 - go; leave; past; remove

3 compounds containing this word:

返落去 - to go back down there
寫落去 - to keep writing
凹落去 - hollow; sunken; depressed; sunk; to cave in

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真係無聊，我唔想玩落去啦！粵
You're being ridiculous, I don't want to mess around any more.
[Lit. really nonsense, I not want play-continue [particle]. 落去 has the meaning of "continue" here and may be suffixed to many verbs.]

髧條繩落去! 粵
Drop a rope down there!
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騎樓嘅花盆危危乎，隨時都會跌落去噉粵
The pots on the balcony seems unstable enough to fall off anytime.

溝啲水落去就唔會咁掯喉嘞粵
Add some water into it and it wouldn't taste so overpowering.

張櫈咁濕，咪𠱂落去。粵
Don't rashly sit on the chair; it's so wet.

呢件事睇起嚟好困難﹐但係做落去好容易。粵
This task seems quite difficult, but doing it is really easy.
[Aspect markers 起嚟 and 落去 function rather like antonyms, originally meaning "starting to" and "carrying on" respectively. ]

再係噉落去, 會輸晒啲錢架粵
If you keep going on like this, you would lose all your money.

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