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Definition
Urgent, critical, or pressing; requiring immediate attention.
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How it's used
Focuses on the immediate need for action or the severity of a situation. It is commonly used in professional or formal settings, such as in news reports or workplace communication, but remains perfectly natural in daily speech when describing serious problems.
Examples
The situation is very urgent right now, please handle it quickly.
Related words
Common mistake
Avoid using this to describe personal feelings of being in a rush, as it refers to the objective state of an event or situation rather than a person's internal sense of time pressure.
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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.
