lei6 wai5 leon4利偉倫利伟伦
Jyutpinglei6 wai5 leon4
Yaleleih wáih lèuhn
Definition
A Hong Kong professional football player.
colloquialpeoplesports
How it's used
Proper nouns for specific individuals are used exactly like names in English. Unlike some other languages, Cantonese does not require a title or classifier before a person's name when speaking about them in a casual context. It is common to refer to him simply by his full name when discussing local sports history.
Examples
Lee Wai-lun was a very good football player in the past.
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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.
