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Definition
Bedroom; a room for sleeping and resting.
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How it's used
Although 寢室 is understood, it sounds quite formal or academic in Hong Kong Cantonese. Most locals prefer using 房 or 睡房 in daily life. You will mostly encounter 寢室 in the context of university dormitories or formal descriptions of building layouts.
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Your clothes inside the bedroom are all messy.
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Common mistake
Using 寢室 in casual conversation can sound overly stiff or like you are reading from a textbook. Stick to 房 for general use to sound more natural.
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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.
