jau4 seoi2游水
Jyutpingjau4 seoi2
Yaleyàuh séui
Definition
To swim; to move through water using bodily movements.
Example
Swimming in the summer.
colloquialdaily actionssports
How it's used
Unlike the formal term 游泳 which is often used in writing or news reports, 游水 is the standard, everyday way to talk about swimming in conversation. It functions as a separable verb, meaning you can insert particles like 咗 or 緊 between 游 and 水, such as 游咗水 or 游緊水.
Examples
Are you free to go swimming tomorrow?
He learned how to swim when he was very 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.
