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Jyutpingbaa6
Yalebah
Definition
To stop, cease, or finish; also used to indicate a strike or protest by refusing to work.
- to stop; to cease; to finish
- to strike; to refuse to work as a protest
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How it's used
This character is almost exclusively used in formal or political contexts involving organized protests or collective action. It functions as a bound morpheme that combines with other characters to form compound verbs like 罷工 or 罷課. You will rarely hear it used in casual, everyday speech to mean stop, as common verbs like 停 or 唔做 are preferred for general situations.
Examples
They have been on strike for three days already.
Are you really going to boycott classes?
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Common mistake
Do not use this word to mean stop in a physical sense, such as stopping a car or stopping a conversation. Using it in those contexts would sound unnatural or overly dramatic.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
