Category:Cantonese lemmas

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Cantonese lemmas, categorized by their part of speech.

• Category:Cantonese adjectives: Cantonese terms that give attributes to nouns, extending their definitions.
• Category:Cantonese adverbs: Cantonese terms that modify clauses, sentences and phrases directly.
• Category:Cantonese circumpositions: Cantonese adpositions that appear on both sides of their objects.
• Category:Cantonese classifiers: Cantonese terms that classify nouns according to their meanings.
• Category:Cantonese conjunctions: Cantonese terms that connect words, phrases or clauses together.
• Category:Cantonese determiners: Cantonese terms that narrow down, within the conversational context, the referent of the following noun.
• Category:Cantonese interjections: Cantonese terms that express emotions, sounds, etc. as exclamations.
• Category:Cantonese morphemes: Cantonese word-elements used to form full words.
• Category:Cantonese nouns: Cantonese terms that indicate people, beings, things, places, phenomena, qualities or ideas.
• Category:Cantonese numerals: Cantonese terms that quantify nouns.
• Category:Cantonese particles: Cantonese terms that do not belong to any of the inflected grammatical word classes, often lacking their own grammatical functions and forming other parts of speech or expressing the relationship between clauses.
• Category:Cantonese phrases: Cantonese groups of words elaborated to express ideas, not necessarily phrases in the grammatical sense.
• Category:Cantonese postpositions: Cantonese adpositions that are placed after their objects.
• Category:Cantonese prepositions: Cantonese adpositions that are placed before their objects.
• Category:Cantonese pronouns: Cantonese terms that refer to and substitute nouns.
• Category:Cantonese verbs: Cantonese terms that indicate actions, occurrences or states.