bou3 luk1 leon4布碌侖布碌仑
Jyutpingbou3 luk1 leon4
Yalebou lūk lèuhn
Definition
Brooklyn, a borough of New York City in the United States.
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How it's used
This is a phonetic transliteration used by the Cantonese-speaking diaspora in North America to refer to the New York City borough. It is almost exclusively encountered in the context of the immigrant community or when discussing travel to the United States. In Hong Kong, people might simply use the English name Brooklyn instead of this transliteration.
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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.
