gaa3 fe1咖啡

Jyutpinggaa3 fe1

Yalega fē

名詞Very common

Definition

Coffee; a brewed drink made from roasted and ground coffee beans, containing caffeine.

ngo5我ziu1朝zou2早jam2飲gaa3咖fe1啡。

ngo5我ziu1朝zou2早jam2饮gaa3咖fe1啡。

I drink coffee in the morning.

colloquialdrink

How it's used

Ordering coffee in a local cha chaan teng often involves specific terminology like 啡走, which means coffee with condensed milk instead of evaporated milk and sugar. While the word is borrowed from English, the pronunciation is adapted to fit Cantonese phonology, often sounding like ga-fe-1.

Measure word

bui1杯būi

Examples

nei5你jam2飲m4唔jam2飲gaa3咖fe1啡aa4呀？

Do you want to drink some coffee?

ngo5我ziu1朝zou2早jat1一ding6定jiu3要jam2飲bui1杯gaa3咖fe1啡sin1先sing2醒san4神。

I must drink a cup of coffee in the morning to wake up.

Common phrases

cung1沖gaa3咖fe1啡

to brew coffee

zaai1齋fe1啡

black coffee

Common mistake

Learners sometimes confuse the pronunciation with the Mandarin version; ensure the tone on the second character is distinctively high-level or high-falling depending on the speaker's dialectal preference.