fat6 muk6伐木
Jyutpingfat6 muk6
Yalefaht muhk
Definition
To fell timber, lumber, or log, usually for commercial profit.
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How it's used
伐木 is a formal term primarily used in news reports, environmental discussions, or academic contexts. In casual daily speech, people are much more likely to use the simpler verb 斬樹 to describe the act of cutting down trees.
Examples
People there really like to log trees to sell for money.
Do you know who approved them to go logging?
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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.
