大家
daai6 gaa1dà jiā
English
- everyone
- everybody, often excluding the speaker when used without other personal pronouns
- master; person with deep knowledge of an academic discipline or the arts
- influential family
- rich and influential family
- great expert
粵語 — Cantonese
- 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
- 學術、文藝領域知識豐厚而深入嘅人
- 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