wai2 noi6 seoi6 laai1委內瑞拉委内瑞拉
Jyutpingwai2 noi6 seoi6 laai1
Yalewái noih seuih lāai
Definition
Venezuela, a country in northern South America with its capital at Caracas.
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How it's used
Geographic names are often used with the classifier 個 when referring to the country as a specific entity in a sentence. It functions just like any other proper noun for a location, but speakers often add the classifier to make the sentence flow more naturally in spoken Cantonese.
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Do you know where Venezuela is?
Their whole family immigrated to Venezuela.
Related words
Common phrases
Venezuelan
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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.
