Directional Complements

趨向補語

About this concept

Directional verbs added after main verbs to indicate direction of movement: 嚟 lai4 (coming towards speaker), 去 heoi3 (going away), 上 soeng5 (up), 落 lok6 (down), 入 jap6 (in), 出 ceot1 (out).

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~30 cards at level A2.

Examples

行過嚟。Walk over here.

拎上去。Take it up.

佢跑出去咗。He/She ran out.

入嚟坐。Come in and sit.

Prerequisite

Basic Verbs and Word OrderA1

More A2 concepts

Completed Action 咗完成體「咗」Ongoing Action 緊進行體「緊」Experiential 過經歷體「過」Basic Sentence-Final Particles基本語氣助詞 Comparison with 過 and 比比較句

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