gaang1 tin4耕田
Jyutpinggaang1 tin4
Yalegāang tìhn
Definition
To till fields; to plough agricultural land in preparation for planting.
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How it's used
Refers specifically to the manual labor of preparing soil for agriculture, often carrying a sense of traditional or arduous physical work. While it can describe modern farming, it is frequently used to evoke a nostalgic or rustic image of rural life in Hong Kong's past. It is a verb phrase that functions as a separable unit, allowing for aspect markers like 咗 or 到 to be inserted between 耕 and 田.
Examples
They had to work very hard in the past to be able to farm.
Have you ever tried going down to farm when you were young?
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
