jyu4逾
Jyutpingjyu4
Yaleyùh
Definition
To exceed or go beyond.
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How it's used
Primarily found in formal writing, legal notices, or official announcements rather than casual speech. When used in spoken Cantonese, it often sounds stiff or overly literary, as people typically prefer using 超過 or 過咗 instead. It is most commonly encountered in set phrases like 逾期 or 逾時.
Examples
This plan has already exceeded the deadline.
Their expenses this time exceeded the budget.
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Common mistake
Learners often mistakenly use it as a direct substitute for 過 in everyday speech, but it lacks the flexibility of common verbs and sounds unnatural in informal contexts.
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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.
