ne1 naa4呢嗱
Jyutpingne1 naa4
Yalenē nàh
Definition
Vanilla.
colloquialfood
How it's used
This term is a direct phonetic loan from English, commonly used in food and beverage contexts. It is almost exclusively used to describe flavors, particularly in ice cream, cakes, and milkshakes. While it is widely understood, younger speakers might also simply use the English word vanilla in casual conversation.
Examples
Do you like eating vanilla cake?
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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.
