English
- (Cant.) to come, arrive
- used in transliteration
- coming; to come (Cantonese)
- to arrive; to come
- used after a verb phrase to indicate that an action or event has just occurred
- used at the end of a copular sentence to emphasise that the two things in question (i.e. the subject and object) are identical, or that the latter is a description of the former; usage is similar to 係 hai6
- to bring something
- to have a somewhat strange event occur; special reading of 嚟 lai4
粵語
- 由另一個地方去你而家身處嘅地方
- 放喺動詞短語之後，表示動作／事件啱啱過咗去
- 加喺名詞句句尾，用途近似「係」，用嚟強調句中嗰兩樣嘢（主語同賓語）係同一概念或者後者係前者嘅描述
- 迎接某啲嘢，帶某啲嘢
- 嚟料；嚟 lai4 嘅特別讀法，指有啲古怪嘅事發生
Decomposition
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Words containing 嚟
- 人嚟jan4 lai4
summoning one to come and serve
- 嚟自lai4 zi6
come from
- 出嚟ceot1 lai4
come out
- 開嚟hoi1 lai4
open it (spoken)
- 起嚟hei2 lei4
when (spoken)
- 用嚟jung6 lai4
to use as
- 後嚟hau6 lei4
later on (spoken)
- 入嚟jap6 lai4
"come in", an expression often used to tell someone to come in or to enter another's place or premise
- 嚟真lai2 zan1
be real, for real
- 就嚟zau6 lai4
(adverb) coming soon; coming shortly; almost; nearly
- 亂嚟lyun2 lai4
to do something recklessly or foolishly or irresponsibly
- 埋嚟maai4 lai4
come closer
- 返嚟faan1 lai4
come back here (spoken)
- 嚟緊lai4 gan2
coming
- 翻嚟faan1 lai4
come back
- 睇嚟tai2 lai4
seems like (spoken)
- 癮嚟jan5 lai4
to feel the urge to take drugs inorder to satisfy an addiction [colloquial]
- 打嚟daa2 lai4
to phone someone
- 得嚟dak1 lai4
- 上嚟soeng5 lai4
to come over, to come up
- 老嚟lou5 lai2
lucky; auspicious
- 新嚟san1 lai4
(of a person) to have recently joined an organisation
- 本嚟bun2 lei4
originally; basically
- 嚟經lei4 ging1
to menstruate; to have period