baan1 si6 lei6班士利
Jyutpingbaan1 si6 lei6
Yalebāan sih leih
Definition
Barnsley, a town in South Yorkshire, England.
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How it's used
This is a direct phonetic transliteration of the English place name. It is used exclusively when referring to the specific town in South Yorkshire, England. Like most foreign place names, it does not carry any additional cultural or idiomatic meaning in Cantonese.
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Barnsley Football Club
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
