早zou2知zi1

English

1. to know in advance
2. feeling regret after receiving an outcome from a piece of workunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 表示做完一件事或者得知某件事嘅結果之後後悔unreviewed?

Examples

• 早知就咪來呢度啦！

  I should have never come here.

  Tatoeba · thesilhouette CC BY

• 早知到，就唔好借钱卑佢。

  You should have known better than to lend him money.

  Tatoeba CC BY

• 早知道我不應該打電話給他。

  I should have known better than to call him.

  Tatoeba · Martha CC BY

• 早知如此，就不应该借钱给他。

  You should have known better than to lend him money.

  Tatoeba · GlossaMatik CC BY

• 如果我早知道，我不会跟她说这种话。

  Had I known that, I wouldn't have said such a thing to her.

  Tatoeba · fucongcong CC BY

• 如果我早知道你在这儿的话，我马上就来了。

  If I had known that you were here, I would have come at once.

  Tatoeba · fucongcong CC BY

• unreviewed?

  早知今日，何必當初

  if one had known it would come to this, he would not have acted so

• unreviewed?

  今日個比賽原來去到要齋坐成朝先開始，早知我就唔去啦！

  If I knew that we need to wait for the whole morning before the competition starts, I would not have gone there!