gaau1 pui3交配
Jyutpinggaau1 pui3
Yalegāau pui
Definition
To mate or copulate.
neutralanimalsother
How it's used
Primarily used in biological or scientific contexts when discussing animal reproduction. It carries a clinical and detached tone that makes it sound unnatural or even offensive when applied to human sexual activity. In casual conversation about pets or wildlife, people often prefer more descriptive phrasing if they want to avoid the coldness of this term.
Examples
Have the lions in the zoo mated yet?
Related words
Common mistake
Avoid using this word to describe human sexual intercourse, as it reduces human behavior to animal instinct and sounds highly inappropriate or insulting in social settings.
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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.
