粵

鬆sung1啲di1

simp松啲
sung1 di1sōng dī

English

  1. just a little bit more (than a certain quantity stated)
  2. a bit more (than a number); a little over (a quantity); placed after a (base) numeral or even a numeral-classifier(-noun) phrase to mean an amount smaller than 幾 and 零 leng4; cannot be used in an ordinal numeral expression

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 喺一個位數詞、數值、量詞以至名詞後面,表示實際嘅數值比講出嚟嘅數大少少,細過幾同零(leng4);唔可以用嚟表示序數

Examples

  • 十鬆啲個

    10-something entities

  • 三十鬆啲

    a bit more than thirty

  • 百三鬆啲

    130 something

  • 十鬆啲萬

    100-something thousand

  • 2.5鬆啲

    2.5 and something

  • 晏晝一點鬆啲

    a bit later than one o'clock in the afternoon

  • 只係百鬆啲蚊嘅飯

    a meal that just costs a bit more than 100 dollars

  • 佢使咗千鬆啲銀。

    He spent slightly more than $1000.

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

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