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Definition
Kitchen; an indoor space used for preparing and cooking food.
Example
colloquialhomefood
How it's used
Refers specifically to the room where cooking occurs, though in many modern Hong Kong apartments, the area is quite small and often integrated into the living space. When talking about the act of cooking itself, locals often just say 煮嘢 instead of referring to the room.
Measure word
go3個goExamples
Why is your kitchen so messy?
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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.
