saang1 gwo2生果
Jyutpingsaang1 gwo2
Yalesāang gwó
Definition
Fruit; fresh fruit.
Example
ngo5我mui5每jat6日sik6食saang1生gwo2果。
I eat fruit every day.
colloquialfood
How it's used
Refers specifically to edible fruits sold in markets or eaten as snacks, rather than the botanical concept of fruit. While the formal term 水果 is understood, native speakers almost exclusively use 生果 in daily life. It is common to see it paired with specific verbs like 削 to describe peeling or cutting.
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go3個goExamples
What kind of fruit did you buy and bring home?
It is healthy to eat a piece of fruit after a meal.
Related words
Common mistake
Do not use it to refer to the botanical fruit of a plant in a scientific context, as it is strictly a culinary term for food.
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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.
