bo1 do1 lai4 gok3波多黎各
Jyutpingbo1 do1 lai4 gok3
Yalebō dō làih gok
Definition
Puerto Rico; an island territory of the United States in the Caribbean.
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How it's used
Geographical names like this are treated as proper nouns and typically do not require a measure word when used in a sentence. It is standard to use the preposition 喺 when describing its location or someone's presence there.
Examples
Do you know where Puerto Rico is?
Their whole family immigrated to Puerto Rico to live.
Related words
Common phrases
Puerto Rican
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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.
