wun6 sing2喚醒唤醒
Jyutpingwun6 sing2
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Definition
To wake someone up; to awaken or arouse.
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How it's used
While 喚醒 is grammatically correct, it sounds quite formal or literary in Cantonese. In everyday spoken interactions, people almost exclusively use 叫醒 to express the act of waking someone up. Using 喚醒 in casual conversation can make you sound like you are reading from a book or a news report.
Examples
Wake me up at seven tomorrow morning.
He woke up everyone in the house with a loud noise.
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Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 醒, which is an intransitive verb meaning to wake up yourself. If you want to say you woke up, use 我醒咗, not 我喚醒咗.
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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.
