粵

大daai6家gaa1

daai6 gaa1dà jiā

English

  1. everyone
  2. everybody, often excluding the speaker when used without other personal pronouns
  3. master; person with deep knowledge of an academic discipline or the arts
  4. influential family
  5. rich and influential family
  6. great expert

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 泛指群眾、大部分至全部嘅人;冇同其他人稱代詞連用嗰時,通常唔包括自己
  2. 學術、文藝領域知識豐厚而深入嘅人
  3. 大户人家

Examples

  • 大家好!

    Hi, everybody!

  • 書法大家

    a great master of calligraphy

  • 大家閨秀

    young lady from a large, noble family

  • 大家都攰嘞。

    We were both tired.

    Tatoeba · thesilhouette CC BY

  • 唐宋古文八大家

    the Eight Giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. those involved in the Classics movement ----

  • 大家都喺到笑。

    Everybody was laughing.

    Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

  • 大家無嘢吖嘛。

    Is everyone all right?

    Tatoeba · thesilhouette CC BY

  • 大家都好鍾意佢。

    Everyone likes him.

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

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