Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- zuo
- zuǒ
English
- (Cant.) verbal particle of perfective aspect
- Cantonese particle equivalent to 了[le5] or 過|过[guo4]
- used after a verb as a perfective aspect marker for completed actions or past events
- used after an adjective to describe the state of an object which has undergone changes
粵語
- 放喺動詞之後表示動作完成
- 放喺形容詞之後表示事物變化後嘅狀態
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Words containing 咗
- 有咗jau5 zo2
(adjective) pregnant; (phrase) already have
- 得咗dak1 zo2
got it (spoken)
- 香咗hoeng1 zo2
a tactful way of saying someone has died; defeated; thwarted
- 為咗wai6 zo2
(preposition) for; because of; in order to; for the purpose of; so as to; so that
- 除咗ceoi4 zo2
aside from; except for; unless
- 衰咗seoi1 zo2
failed (spoken)
- 死咗sei2 zo2
dead [colloquial]
- 食咗sik6 zo2
have eaten
- 橫咗waang1 zo2
messed up; to make a mess of something
- 預咗jyu6 zo2
expected; to expect
- 釘咗deng1 zo2
passed away
- 跌咗dit3 zo2
dropped; lost (spoken)
- 耐咗noi6 zo2
after a while
- 摺咗zip3 zo2
verb; close, shut down
- 飲大咗jam2 daai6 zo2
drunk (spoken)
- 喎咗wo5 zo2
messed up
- 食咗火藥sik6 zo2 fo2 joek6
angry; hot tempered (spoken)
- 車咗ce1 zo2
- 神咗san4 zo2
- 入咗jap6 zo2
gone in; have put in [colloquial]
- 關咗gwaan1 zo2
- 熱咗jit6 zo2
- 卡咗kaa1 zo2
- 做咗zou6 zo2
became; to have done [colloquial]