差caa1啲di1

English

1. adj.; almost; a bit bad or poor (quality)
2. nearly; almost

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 好接近；爭少少；就快

Examples

• 我差啲瞓着。

  I almost fell asleep.

• 頭先爭啲仆親。

  Just now I nearly tripped and fell over.

• 你爭啲就攞到冠軍喇！

  You almost won the champion!

• 渠嗰次差啲無咗條命。

  The accident almost cost him his life.

  Tatoeba · thesilhouette CC BY

• 我上個星期五瞓過龍，差啲遲到。

  I overslept last Friday, so I was almost late.

  Tatoeba · LeeSooHa CC BY

• 殺死一個人差啲，定係由得五個人死差啲？

  Which is worse, killing one person or letting five people die?

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 佢見唔到個停車牌，差啲撞到個試圖過馬路嘅細路。

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• 上年我一個人過咗咁多時間，差啲唔記得點樣同人溝通。

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