lik6 gaai3歷屆历届
Jyutpinglik6 gaai3
Yalelihk gaai
Definition
Previous; successive; all past sessions, terms, or generations.
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How it's used
Focuses on the cumulative history of an event or organization, implying a series of recurring sessions. It is almost exclusively used in formal or semi-formal contexts like school reunions, sports competitions, or organizational elections. You will rarely hear it in casual, everyday conversation about personal life.
Examples
Graduates from all previous years strongly support their alma mater.
Have you looked at the list of all previous champions yet?
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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.
