緊gan2要jiu3

English

1. critical
2. crucial; important; vital
3. crucial
4. terrific; often used with the affix 得 dak1 to describe preceding verbs or adjectives
5. vital

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 意義或者價值重大，非常之值得或者需要注意，甚至唔能夠缺乏；可以造成深遠影響嘅；重要
2. 程度好高；犀利；厲害；交關；通常同詞綴「得」一齊描述前面嘅動詞或者形容詞

Examples

• 我有緊要事要走先。

  I have to go; I need to deal with something urgent.

• 泳池啲水凍得好緊要。

  The swimming pool is so cold.

• 醫療記錄，都係緊要嘅資料。

  Medical data is highly sensitive.

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• 你冇帶錢唔緊要，等我埋單啦。

  It's no big deal if you don't have your purse with you; let me pay the bill. ----

• 佢操得緊要得滯，成個人謝晒。

  He's practiced too intensely; he looked exhausted.

• 我未見過人民幣匯率跌得咁緊要。

  I've never seen such a great drop in the exchange rate for RMB.

• 呢個會好緊要㗎，你唔好唔嚟呀。

  This is a very important meeting. You ought not to miss it.

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• 對佢嚟講，我諗佢嘅事業重緊要過我。

  To him, I think his career is more important than me.