街gaai1市si5

English

1. downtown area
2. (noun) "wet market," a market where you can buy groceries, fresh produce and meat
3. wet market; markets selling mostly fresh produce and meat, and other daily necessities, but not a supermarket
4. commercial district
5. (chiefly Cantonese) wet market, i.e. a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish and vegetables etc

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 由唔同舖頭所組成，主要賣食品嘅地方，例如新鮮嘅肉類、蔬菜，同埋燒味之類嘅熟食，亦會有林林種種嘅雜貨，例如五金、元寶蠟燭都會有（量詞：個／間）

Examples

• 阿媽去街市買餸。

  My mum goes to the wet market to buy some food.

• 佢喺街市賣魚賣咗好多年囉，咁多年嚟每逢星期二都會喺街市度見到佢。

  For years he has been at the market every Tuesday morning with his fish stall.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 他在街市賣魚賣了許多年了，這些年來每逢星期二都會在街市見到他。

  For years he has been at the market every Tuesday morning with his fish stall.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY