wan4 tin4耘田
Jyutpingwan4 tin4
Yalewàhn tìhn
Definition
To weed farmland; to remove weeds from a field.
neutraldaily actionsnature
How it's used
Refers specifically to the manual labor of removing weeds from agricultural land. While it is a standard term in farming contexts, it is rarely used in urban daily life unless discussing rural activities or traditional farming methods.
Examples
The farmer has to go down to weed the fields every day.
Are you going to weed the fields today?
Related words
Common phrases
working hard at weeding the fields
Common mistake
Learners often confuse this with general cleaning or gardening terms, but it is strictly tied to agricultural field work. Using it to describe pulling weeds in a small home garden or a flower pot sounds unnatural and overly formal.
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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.
