daai6 fo2大伙
Jyutpingdaai6 fo2
Yaledaaih fó
Definition
Everyone; everybody; the whole group.
colloquialpeople
How it's used
While 大伙 is understood, it is significantly less common in daily Hong Kong Cantonese than 大家. It carries a slightly more rustic or northern-influenced flavour, often used when referring to a specific group of people working or travelling together. You will hear it more frequently in older films or when someone is trying to sound informal and collective.
Examples
Let's all go eat together.
What are you all doing?
Related words
Common phrases
everyone (in the group)
Common mistake
Learners often mistake this for a standard pronoun like 大家. Using it in formal settings can sound slightly out of place or overly casual in a way that does not match the typical Hong Kong speech rhythm.
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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.
