daam6氮
Jyutpingdaam6
Yaledaahm
Definition
Nitrogen; the chemical element with atomic number 7 and symbol N.
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How it's used
Scientific terms like this are often borrowed directly from written Chinese characters but read with Cantonese pronunciation in academic or professional settings. While it is a technical term, you will hear it in contexts involving chemistry, food preservation, or industrial cooling. It is almost exclusively used in its compound form 氮氣 when referring to the gas state in everyday life.
Examples
The gas that makes up most of the air is nitrogen.
This experiment requires the use of nitrogen gas.
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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.
