gaa1 baan1 fai3加班費加班费
Jyutpinggaa1 baan1 fai3
Yalegā bāan fai
Definition
Overtime pay; compensation for working extra hours.
colloquialworkmoney
How it's used
Refers specifically to the extra compensation received for working beyond standard hours. It is common to hear employees complain about the lack of this payment in local work culture, often using the phrase 冇補水 to describe the same situation informally.
Examples
Do you get overtime pay this month?
The company is very stingy and provides no overtime pay at all.
Related words
Common phrases
to apply for overtime pay
no overtime pay
Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 補水, which is a very common colloquial term for overtime pay or compensation; while 加班費 is understood by everyone, 補水 is often used more frequently in casual office gossip.
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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.
