Some Cantonese questions
Dear friends,
The following are a few questions from my Cantonese lesson today… If you have any spare time, it would really help me if you could answer them…
Thanks a lot in advance!
1.
喺廣州條何叫做乜嘢名
how should I interpret this construction grammatically?
2.
hoy1 cing4
to start, to begin to move (of vehicles)
The first character is clearly 開, but what is the second one?
3.
放
vs.
放落
should I interpret the difference as “to put” vs. “to put down”?
4.
擠啲書喺書櫃
擠啲書書櫃
放啲書喺書櫃
放啲書書櫃
a. which of these sentences are correct?
b. are they all identical in meaning?
5.
擠啲襪喺櫃桶
擠啲襪櫃桶
放啲襪喺櫃桶
放啲襪櫃桶
a. which of these sentences are correct?
b. are they all identical in meaning?
6.
做工
in Mandarin this verb has a connotation of doing “manual work”. My Cantonese dictionary simply says “to do work”.
Does it have a similar connotation of “manual work” in Cantonese?
Thanks!