dai6 ji6第二
Jyutpingdai6 ji6
Yaledaih yih
Definition
Another; other; different from the one referred to.
Example
dai6第ji6二jat6日ngo5我dei6哋heoi3去jam2飲caa4茶。
dai6第ji6二jat6日ngo5我dei6哋heoi3去jam2饮caa4茶。
The next day we went yum cha.
colloquialother
How it's used
Commonly used with the particle 啲 or a measure word to mean another or different. It functions as a determiner to shift focus away from the current subject or option to an alternative one. It is highly versatile and appears frequently in everyday speech to express variety or change.
Examples
I have other things to do today.
Do you have any other methods?
Related words
Common phrases
something else
Common mistake
Learners often confuse this with the ordinal number second. While it literally contains the character for two, in colloquial Cantonese it is almost exclusively used to mean other or another, not the position after first.
Grammar color guide
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Grammar guides
- QuestionsFrom yes or no questions to asking who, what, where, and when. The patterns you need to ask questions naturally in Cantonese.
- ClassifiersCantonese puts a classifier between a number and a noun, and a bare classifier on its own can mean the. Learn the common ones and how to use them.
- ComparisonsHow to say bigger than, the most, the same as, and not as good as. Cantonese uses 過 where Mandarin uses 比, and that catches a lot of learners out.
