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Definition
Inexpensive; cheap; low-priced.
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How it's used
廉 is primarily a literary or formal morpheme that rarely stands alone in spoken Cantonese. It is almost exclusively found in compound words like 廉價 or 廉潔. When describing something as cheap in daily speech, native speakers will always choose 平 instead.
Examples
The things in this shop are very cheap.
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Common mistake
Do not use 廉 as a standalone adjective to describe a price. If you say 呢樣嘢好廉, it will sound unnatural or like a misunderstanding of formal Chinese vocabulary.
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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.
