粵

樓lau4下haa6

simp楼下
lau4 haa6lóu xià

English

  1. downstairs
  2. (noun) lobby (of building)
  3. used after numerals (and quantifiers) to mean "below / less than / lower than a certain numerical value"
  4. downstairs
  5. the ground floor of a building and the nearby area

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 喺表示數量嘅短語後面,表示少於、細過、低過某個數值
  2. 下面嘅樓層
  3. 建築物底層同附近平地

Examples

  • 三萬蚊樓下

    less than thirty thousand dollars

  • 一千點樓下

    lower than 1000 points

  • 百分之五樓下

    below 5%

  • 樓下成日都好嘈。

    It is often noisy downstairs. ----

  • 樓下條路夜晚成日有人飛車。

    There are often cars zooming past at night on the road just down there.

  • 好肚餓呀,落樓下食啲嘢先。

    I'm hungry. I'm going downstairs for something to eat.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 你做完功課就可以去樓下大堂玩嘞。

    You can go down to the lobby and play after finishing your homework.

  • 今日落大雨,落咗好耐,樓下停車場都水浸。

    It's raining heavily today and it lasts for a long while so that the parking lot downstairs are flooding.

    Tatoeba · LeeSooHa CC BY

Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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