25 July 2011

Housework / home chores - ga1 mo4

home chores you do at home
Hai2 ok1 kei2 jo4 gei3 ga1 mo4
Who’s responsible for the housework?  
Bin1 gor3 fu4 jak3 jo4 ga1 mo4?
What chores do you like doing?
Nei5 jong1 yi3 jo4 mut1 yeh5 ga1 mo4?
Who’s responsible for the washing dishes?
Bin1 gor3 fu4 jak3 sai2 woon2?
Who does the laundry?
Bin1 gor3 fu4 jak3 sai2 saam1?
Who empties the bins?
Bin1 gor3 fu4 jak3 duum2 lap4 sap3?
Who does the cooking?
Bin1 gor3 fu6 jak3 jue2 fan4?
What time of day do you like to do your housework?
Mut1 yeh5 si6 gaan3 jo4 ga1 mo4 joi3 ho2?

Cinderella

Fui1 gu1 leung4
Clean the bath
Sang2 yuk4 gong1
Dishwasher (machine)
Sai2 woon2 dip3 gei1
Drying clothes
Long3 saam1
Dust the floor
So3 dei4
Hovering
Kup1 chan6
Laundry
Sai2 saam1
Make the bed
Po1 chong6
Tidy up/reorganise
Jup1 yeah5
two-in-one washer and dryer
yi6 hap6 jat1 sai2 yi1 gon1yi1 gei1
Wash dishes
Sai2 woon2
Wash toilet
Sai2 chi3 sor2
Wipe the floor
Mat3 dei6

Bathroom

Chung1 leung4 fong2
A Bedroom
Yat1 (gaan1) soi6 fong2
Dining room
Faan3 teng1
Hall/corridor
zau2 long2
Kitchen
chu4 fong2
A Sitting room
Yat1 (goh3) haak3 teng1
A study
Yat1 (goh3/gaan1) sue1 fong2
toilet
Chi3 sor2

always
dirty dishes
downstairs

sang6 yat3
woo1 jo1 dip3
lau4 haa6

dusty
Dor1 chaan4

everything
Mat1 doh1

heavy
cung5

help me!
Boong1 ngoh5

smelly
cau3

sometimes
Yau5 si4

Can you smell it?
Nei5 man4 m5 man4 do2a3?

they can’t smell it
Koi5 dei3 man4 m5 do2

upstairs
Lau4 Seung3

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Tones - the little numbers on this blog

Cantonese has six tones, we use numbers after each word to identify them
1 = High Falling - as in King
2 = Mid-rising - you??
3 = Mid-level - boon3 (half)
4 = Low Falling - kingdom
5 = Low-rising - ngoh5 (I, me)
6 = Low-level - ngoh5 dei6 (we) sounds like day

alas they're very important, see: