fuk6 joek6服藥服药
Jyutpingfuk6 joek6
Yalefuhk yeuhk
Definition
To take medicine.
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How it's used
While 服藥 is understood in Cantonese, it is formal and typically restricted to written instructions, medical labels, or news reports. In everyday spoken conversation, people almost exclusively use 食藥 regardless of whether the medicine is a pill, liquid, or powder.
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Common mistake
Do not use 服藥 in casual conversation as it sounds overly clinical or stiff. Stick to 食藥 to sound natural.
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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.
