mok6 si1 fo1莫斯科
Jyutpingmok6 si1 fo1
Yalemohk sī fō
Definition
Moscow, the capital and largest city of Russia.
neutralplacestravel
How it's used
Geographic names are often used with the classifier 個 when referring to the city as a specific entity in a sentence. It functions exactly like any other noun for a place, but speakers frequently pair it with weather descriptions or travel plans.
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go3個goExamples
Are you going to travel to Moscow this year?
Moscow is really freezing in the winter.
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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.
