m4 zung1 jung6唔中用
Jyutpingm4 zung1 jung6
Yalem̀h jūng yuhng
Definition
Useless, incompetent, or good-for-nothing.
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How it's used
Focuses specifically on the lack of practical utility or functional effectiveness of a person or an object. It carries a stronger sense of disappointment or frustration compared to the more neutral 冇用. When applied to people, it often implies that someone fails to deliver expected results or lacks competence in a specific task.
Examples
This tool is useless, it broke as soon as I used it.
Why are you always so useless when you work?
Related words
Common mistake
Avoid using this to describe abstract concepts or situations where something is simply unnecessary; it is reserved for things or people that fail to perform their intended function.
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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.
