鄉下
simp乡下hoeng1 haa6hoeng1 haa2xiāng xia
English
- countryside
- (noun) hometown
- rural area
- countryside; rural area
- native place; hometown (usu. of extended family rather than one's own); ancestral home
量詞 — Classifiers
粵語 — Cantonese
- 相對城市,人比較少,以耕地居多嘅地方;通常都係比較落後
- 祖籍、出生地
Examples
我鄉下好靚。
My hometown is very pretty.
Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY
阿 Tom 返咗鄉下。
Tom went back to his hometown.
Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY
喺呢二百年裏面,有好多人喺鄉下搬咗去市區度住。
This movement from rural to urban areas has been going on for over two hundred years.
Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY
我想搬去鄉下住。
Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY
相反,佢話鄉下同村莊嘅人成日抱怨缺乏設施畀佢哋嘅小朋友學習英文,從而有機會搵到好啲嘅工作同更好嘅生活。
Tatoeba · Matthewyau1367 CC BY
她住在鄉下。
She lives in the country.
Tatoeba · DaoSeng CC BY
鄉下話
language or dialect of one's ancestral hometown
返鄉下
to visit one's native place or ancestral home
Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk