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禮拜
lai5 baai3
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Level: 2 Google Frequency: 3,330,000 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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This word has been viewed 7563 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by aaron on 14th Jul 2004 02:25 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03 |
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Characters in this word:禮 lai5 - ceremony; rite; propriety; gift拜 baai3 - visit, salute 16 compounds containing this word:禮拜一 - Monday禮拜二 - Tuesday 禮拜三 - Wednesday 禮拜四 - Thursday 禮拜五 - Friday 禮拜六 - Saturday 禮拜日 - Sunday 禮拜尾 - weekend 禮拜天 - Sunday 禮拜堂 - church 做禮拜 - go to church; to worship 上個禮拜 - last week 禮拜儀式 - liturgical 廠禮拜 - day off (work) 今個禮拜 - this week 追思禮拜 - memorial service |
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Showing all 7 examples containing 禮拜 
我攞咗上個禮拜買嗰件衫去乾洗 粵
I took the shirt I bought last week to be dry-cleaned. [Lit. I took-already last-week bought that (counter) shirt go dry-clean]
我攞咗上個禮拜買嗰啲衫去乾洗 粵
I took the clothes I bought last week to be dry-cleaned. [Lit. I took-already last-week bought those shirts go dry-clean]
我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺廣城買嗰件衫去洗 粵
I took the shirt I bought two weeks ago at the shopping mall to be cleaned. [Lit. I took two weeks ago at shopping mall buy that shirt go clean]
兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫，我攞咗佢去熨。 粵
I took the shirts that I bought two weeks ago at my favourite shop to be ironed. [Note: although the verb and object could be separated by the lengthy adjective clause 兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買, it's more natural and more easily understood use the topicalised construction in this example.]
我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫去熨 粵
I've taken the shirt that I bought in my favourite clothes shop two weeks ago to be ironed. [[literal] I taken-have two-weeks-ago in my most-like that-(classifier)-clothes-shop buy that-(classifier)-shirt go iron This Cantonese example shows how a relative clause is composed without a relative pronoun. ] |
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