tou2 fu3 maan6土庫曼土库曼
Jyutpingtou2 fu3 maan6
Yaletóu fu maahn
Definition
Turkmenistan; a country in Central Asia with its capital at Ashgabat.
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How it's used
Geographic names ending in characters like 曼 often follow the phonetic transliteration patterns used in Hong Kong media. It functions exactly like any other proper noun for a country and does not require special grammatical handling.
Examples
Turkmenistan is a Central Asian country.
Have you ever traveled to Turkmenistan?
Related words
Common phrases
Turkmen people
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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.
