him3 fun2欠款
Jyutpinghim3 fun2
Yalehim fún
Definition
Debt; an outstanding amount of money borrowed but not yet repaid.
neutralmoney
How it's used
This term is primarily used in formal, financial, or legal contexts rather than casual conversation. When discussing personal borrowing between friends or family, speakers almost always prefer the more direct and natural phrase 欠債 or simply say someone 爭人錢.
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bat1筆bātExamples
How much debt do you still have left to pay?
He went bankrupt because of too much debt.
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Common mistake
Avoid using this in casual settings as it sounds like a bank statement or a legal notice. Using it to describe a friend's personal debt can sound overly clinical or aggressive.
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
