Lesson 146- Housework Part 1 (做家務) #learncantonese

Hi there, I'm Amanda. Welcome back to 5 Minutes Cantonese 大家好,我係Amanda. 歡迎收睇五分鐘廣東話。 Today, let's focus on our daily routine. Well, it might not be your daily routine, but many people have to do it. Housework 家務 Let's get started. First of all, how to say to do housework in Cantonese. Right, we use the same verb. How about housework? Right, we just talk about it. In Cantonese, instead of housework, we say it family work. To do housework. Today, let's focus on the floor. How to say floor in Cantonese. For example, the floor is very dirty. How to say? Remember how to say clean and dirty. Right, we have learned it before. Let's do a quick revision. How about dirty? Right, remember we have learned it in our earlier lesson. Please refer back to that. Ok, so how to say the floor is very dirty. First of all, for the floor, we also have a quantifier. Don't worry, it's a simple one. So, you can say it like this. The floor. If you want to say it in a stronger way, you can add an ending word. For example, Let's take a look at some of the equipments. First, what's that? Right, a broom. For the quantifier of 掃把, you can either use 支, something like a stick, or simply 個 is also acceptable. So, 掃把, how about the verb, which means to sweep the floor. Ok, remember how to say floor. Ok, this time, for the verb, when we say to sweep the floor, we can skip the word 下, which means to sweep the floor. What's that? Similar to a broom, the quantifier, better is 支, but I will say 個 is also acceptable. Literally, remember? Yes, floor. 拖 means to pull. It's like an action. So, 地拖 is the mop. So, how about the verb? It's very funny. So, the verb, to mop, is exactly the other way round. To pull the floor, literally. Yes, 拖地. 拖地. So, how to say to use the mop to mop the floor? Right, to use. 用 and then a mop as noun. 地拖 and then to mop. Very good. How about a very traditional way? Right, to use a cord. For this one, the quantifier is a bit particular. Remember? How to say a piece of bread? Yes, a piece. So, a piece of cord. So, how to say to whip the floor? To whip. Whip the floor. Same, we drop the word 下 or floor. Right. So, they mop. 拖地 and to whip. 抹地. Very good. How about this? Vacuum cleaner. 吸塵機 機, literally. 吸 means to suck. 塵 means to dust. And then 機, machine, ok? A machine to suck the dust. 機, vacuum cleaner. 機, for the action, to vacuum. It's very simple. We use 塵 to suck the dust. Very good. By the way, do you know how to say rubbish in Cantonese? Rubbish or trash. 垃圾 So, do you know how to say rubbish bin in Cantonese? Yes. 垃圾桶 桶, literally, it means a bucket. But when we say a bucket in Cantonese, normally we'll call this water bucket. 水桶 In English, we simply use the verb to put, to say to put the rubbish into the rubbish bin, ok? In Cantonese, we have particular verbs. Normally, we can say 扔 or 掉. We can say 扔垃圾 扔垃圾 掉垃圾 Very good. How about to take out the trash? Well, if you say 扔垃圾, somehow it's acceptable. But we also have a very particular verb for to take out the trash. 倒垃圾 Do you know the meaning of 倒? 倒 means to pour, like to pour the water. 倒水 Why we use the word 倒 for to take out the trash? It's because of the history. Long, long time ago, we don't have this kind of toilet. So, people who use the bucket to handle the urine and the poo at the night time, there will be some worker to handle this kind of trash. So, we use this verb until now. 倒 to take out the trash. 倒垃圾 Very good. Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoy this lesson today. If you want to learn Cantonese with me, please subscribe. If you like this video, please give a thumbs up. If you want more worksheet and supplementary or do exercise, please, please support my Patreon page. See you next time. Bye-bye. 下次見。