ting1 maan1聽晚听晚
Jyutpingting1 maan1
Yaletīng māan
Definition
Tomorrow night; the evening of the day after today.
colloquialtime
How it's used
Refers specifically to the night immediately following the current day. It functions as a time adverbial and is placed at the beginning of a sentence or immediately after the subject. Unlike formal written Chinese, it is the standard way to express this time frame in all spoken contexts.
Examples
Are you free to have dinner tomorrow night?
Related words
Common mistake
Avoid using it to refer to the night after tomorrow, which is 後晚. Beginners sometimes confuse the two when planning future events.
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Grammar guides
- QuestionsFrom yes or no questions to asking who, what, where, and when. The patterns you need to ask questions naturally in Cantonese.
- ClassifiersCantonese puts a classifier between a number and a noun, and a bare classifier on its own can mean the. Learn the common ones and how to use them.
- ComparisonsHow to say bigger than, the most, the same as, and not as good as. Cantonese uses 過 where Mandarin uses 比, and that catches a lot of learners out.
