gwo3 loeng6過量过量
Jyutpinggwo3 loeng6
Yalegwo leuhng
Definition
Excessive; an overdose or an amount exceeding what is appropriate.
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How it's used
This term is primarily used in formal or clinical contexts, such as medical advice or safety warnings. In casual daily speech, people often prefer using descriptive phrases like 太多 or 爆咗額 to convey the same idea of exceeding a limit. It carries a sense of danger or negative consequence when the limit is crossed.
Examples
Drinking excessive alcohol is very harmful to your body.
Did you take an overdose of medicine?
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Common mistake
Learners often use this as a verb, but it functions as an adjective or a noun. To express the action of overdosing, one must use a verb like 食 or 飲 before it, such as 食藥過量.
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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.
