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Learning the Cantonese Adverbs is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Cantonese language. But first we need to know what the role of Adverbs is in the structure of the grammar in Cantonese.
Cantonese adverbs are part of speech. Generally they're words that modify any part of language other than a noun. Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs. Here are some examples:
| English Adverbs | Cantonese Adverbs |
|---|---|
| adverbs | 狀態詞 |
| I read a book sometimes | 我有時會看書 |
| I will never smoke | 我從不吸煙 |
| are you alone? | 你是一個人嗎? |
Notice the structure of the Adverbs in Cantonese.
Below is a list of the Adverbs of time place manner and frequency in Cantonese placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Cantonese vocabulary.
| English Adverbs | Cantonese Adverbs |
|---|---|
| adverbs of time | 時間的狀態詞 |
| yesterday | 昨天 |
| today | 今天 |
| tomorrow | 明天 |
| now | 現在 |
| then | 那時候 |
| later | 遲些 |
| tonight | 今晚 |
| right now | 立即 |
| last night | 昨晚 |
| this morning | 今天早上 |
| next week | 下星期 |
| already | 已經 |
| recently | 最近 |
| lately | 最近 |
| soon | 很快 |
| immediately | 立即 |
| still | 仍然 |
| yet | 仍未 |
| ago | 已經 |
| adverbs of place | 地方的狀態詞 |
| here | 這裏 |
| there | 那裏 |
| over there | 在那裏 |
| everywhere | 周圍 |
| anywhere | 任何地方 |
| nowhere | 任何地方都不 |
| home | 家 |
| away | 離開 |
| out | 外面 |
| adverbs of manner | 儀態的狀態詞 |
| very | 很 |
| quite | 相當 |
| pretty | 漂亮 |
| really | 真的 |
| fast | 快 |
| well | 好 |
| hard | 硬 |
| quickly | 快 |
| slowly | 慢 |
| carefully | 小心 |
| hardly | 幾乎不 |
| barely | 幾乎不 |
| mostly | 大部分 |
| almost | 幾乎 |
| absolutely | 一定 |
| together | 一齊 |
| alone | 獨自 |
| adverbs of frequency | 頻率的狀態詞 |
| always | 經常 |
| frequently | 頻密 |
| usually | 通常 |
| sometimes | 有時 |
| occasionally | 間中 |
| seldom | 不常 |
| rarely | 很少 |
| never | 永不 |
Adverbs of time place manner and frequency have a very important role in Cantonese. Once you're done with the Yue Adverbs, you might want to check the rest of our Cantonese lessons here: Learn Cantonese. Don't forget to bookmark this page.
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