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Definition
Excavator; a large machine with a long mechanical arm and bucket used for digging and moving soil.
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How it's used
This term is the standard colloquial way to refer to an excavator in Hong Kong. While technically referring to a machine with a shovel for soil, it is commonly used to describe almost any heavy earthmoving equipment seen on construction sites. It is a compound word that literally breaks down into shovel, mud, and vehicle.
Measure word
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There is an excavator working inside the construction site.
Related words
Common phrases
operate an excavator
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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.
