tung4 baan1同班
Jyutpingtung4 baan1
Yaletùhng bāan
Definition
To be in or from the same class at school.
colloquialschoolpeople
How it's used
Focuses specifically on the shared experience of being in the same classroom environment rather than just attending the same school. It carries a sense of intimacy because students in the same class spend most of their day together, often leading to closer friendships than with other students in the same grade.
Examples
He is my former classmate from secondary school.
Were you two in the same class before?
Related words
Common phrases
classmate
Common mistake
Do not use this to mean just being in the same school, as that is better expressed by 同校. It specifically implies sharing the same physical classroom or academic group.
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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.
