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Common Cantonese Phrases

This section contains commonly used spoken Cantonese phrases.  Remember that the written forms will only appear in Cantonese media so Mandarin readers might not understand all of them.
 
OK 好呀 hou2 aa3
Is this necessary? 駛唔駛? sai2 m4 sai2
How are you? 
What's happening?
(你)點呀? (nei5) dim2 aa3
Give me a hand 幫手 bong1 sau2
No problem 冇問題 mou5 man tai4
 

 

Character Analysis

 幫手 = help, assist + hand  點呀 = how   冇問題 = (you) don't have (to) + ask enquire + problem

 
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