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Definition
Repeatedly or overlapping.
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How it's used
Used primarily in the reduplicated form 沓沓 to describe actions or speech that occur repeatedly or in a cluttered, overlapping manner. It carries a slightly negative connotation of being repetitive, redundant, or disorganized. While it shares the meaning of repetition with 重複, it is much more specific to the rhythm of speech or the physical piling up of items.
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Do not confuse this with the literary idiom 紛至沓來, which is a fixed expression used in formal writing. In daily spoken Cantonese, 沓 is almost exclusively used in the reduplicated form 沓沓 to describe a repetitive action or sound.
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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.
