cit3 sung3切餸
Jyutpingcit3 sung3
Yalechit sung
Definition
To chop, cut, or prepare ingredients for cooking.
colloquialfooddaily actions
How it's used
Refers specifically to the act of preparing ingredients for a meal, which often includes meat and other items, not just vegetables. It functions as a verb-object compound, meaning you can insert aspect markers like 咗 or 緊 between 切 and 餸. It is a very common household term used when someone is busy in the kitchen before cooking.
Examples
Can you help me cut the vegetables?
Related words
Common mistake
Learners often mistake 餸 for only meaning vegetables, but in Cantonese, it refers to any side dish or ingredient served with rice. Using it to mean only plant-based produce is too narrow.
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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.
