I put this in the main forum, but didn’t get much response.
Can anyone tell me the Cantonese for the following basic terms?
Counting, 1 to 10?
Yes/No?
Please/Thank you
Hello/Goodbye
Thanks in advance if anyone can do this for me. (Also, just spell it phonetically. I know that Cantonese doesn’t really have a standard roman form).
Thanks.
Help!
I can give you some numbers…
here ya go…
1- Yut
2- yee
3- Saam
4- say
5- Ng (pronounce kinda like mmm)
6- lok
7- chut
8- baat
9- Gao
10- Sup
after 10 im im not sure we dont count that high in my school, we will just start over if we keep going past 10.
thats the extent of my cantonese really…(im a lil better with manderin if you need that)
peace,
Wally
Thanks Zhou.
What is it all in Mandarin, out of interest?
one - yaht
two - yee
three - sahm
four - say
five - “ng” this is a nasal sound with no vowel like the end of “sing”
six - luk
seven - chaht
eight - baht
nine - gau
ten - sahp
yes - hai
no - mm’hai, although expressing a negative in Cantonese is usually more involved than this (if I remember right; it’s been quite a long time)
I’m sorry I can’t help you on the others. I simply don’t remember, except that the colloquiolisms used in Hong Kong (where I was) aren’t necessarily what you find in a textbook. I can’t speak for Cantonese in general.
Thanks for your help everyone. This thread is actually going well in the main forum now as well.
Thanks again.
manderin number
No problem, you responed quick eh, haha
1- Yi
2- er
3- san
4 - si
5- wu (like the wu in wushu)
6- lu (same u sound as in Wu)
7- chi
8- Ba
9- jiu
10- Shi(pronounced Shr)
11- Shi Yi
12- Shi er
etc..
20 Er shi
21 Er shi yi
etc, it just goes on like that(if i remeber right 
(I will be coutning in class using canton and start thinking manderin numbers )
peace,
Wally
Hello,
In Mandarin, I will spell it like it sounds
1- ee
2- er
3- san
4- shee
5- wu
6- liu
7- chee
8- ba
9- jou
10- sher
In mandarin there are alot of sounds like the number 10, sher, sh, shi, etc…
Back to Cantonese:
Please is either:
cheng, example asking someone to sit, or use mm coy which can be thank you for something you asked for. A more formal thank you would be Do Jay.
Hello - Lay ho or Lay Ho Ma - How are you?
Joi Geen - See you again, Chi dee geen - see you later, Ting yut geen - see you tomorrow
Counting past 10 is pretty easy
11- sup yut
12- sup yee
13- sup sam
14- sup say
15- sup ng
16- sup lok
17- sup chaat
18- sup baat
19- sup gow
20- yee sup
21- yee sup yut, or shorter- yah yut
22- yee sup yee, or - yah yee
30- sam sup
31- sam sup yut, or sam yut
40- say sup
100- yut baat
I hope that helps, good luck with your practice.
Joe
ahhh
ahh so thats how cantonese is past 10, i figured it would be(since manderin uses the same system)
thanks
A word of caution.
Er, in Cantonese, be careful how you say yes “hai” Start loud and taper down. DO not say it Japanese style, ending in an upward inflection.
And don’t add Do Mo!
…take my word for it…
If I remember right, after 10, it continues the same as Mandarin:
11 Sup Yaat
12 Sup Yee
13 Sup Saam
etc.
20 Yee Sup
30 Saam Sup
(slang can make them quicker, eg Sa’up for Saam Sup)
Hai and M’Hai are sort of yes and know (is and is not). You can also try Daak (okay), Chor (wrong), etc.
Rgds,
RR
YOU HAPPY NOW SERPENT
Bring some sort of solidity, and you’ll be treated like this on the Main forum; WORDUP:rolleyes: 
please (sit down) = cheng (cho)
thank you = dor jie
Happy!
Thanks all!
hello in cantonese haha, is like " allo!" hahAHaha
here’s some more-either to clarify or further confuse y’all!~
m’goi-can be also used for excuse me
M’goi is also thank you for service as opposed for a gift. If a waiter brings you water, you say, “M’goi”
but if you are given a gift, you say, “Dohr che”
you also say dohr che when your Sifu teaches you something, or after class, because he is giving you the gift of his knowledge, his time, effort, and experience, and that is certainly a gift to be treasured.
Here’s one; 'Bei fan Sifu" this is losely translated as give back to your Sifu-this is not good. You are returning his gift. You didn’t practice what he taught you and forgot his teaching.
It’s N…
Sow Choy
“Hello - Lay ho or Lay Ho Ma - How are you?”
Hi, in correct Cantonese, “hello/how are you?” should be “Nay ho/nay ho ma?” It should be pronounced with an N. A lot of people use the L, even Cantonese people, but strictly speaking that’s not correct.
hahaha…
Sui-fuw
Nay ho ma
proper mandarin
there was a mistake or two in the mandarin given,
it should be (pinyin with pronunciation in brackets):
Counting, 1 to 10
yi (ee)
er (are)
san (san)
si (suh)
wu (woo)
liu (lee-oh)
qi (chee)
ba (bah)
jiu (jee-oh)
shi (shuh)
Yes/No?
shi de (shuh duh) or “dui” meaning correct (dwai) long a sound
bu shi (boo shuh) or bu dui
Please/Thank you
qing (ching)
xie xie (hard to write a phonetic–maybe she-yeh she-yeh)
Hello/Goodbye
ni hao (knee how)
zai jian (ai has an “I” sound, the rest is like it looks)
the pronunciations are a little off. but the pinyin is right.
-Wang Si Zhong
Cantonese speakers: please help with terminology
Hi
I am preparing an informative material about the forms of the style that i practice, a traditional southern style. I study mandarin but am not sure if i am using the correct terminology for:
1- for a list of FORMS/ROUTINES, i want to put the name “ROUTINES OF THE FEI HOK PHAI STYLE”. It is correct like this: "Fei Hok Phai de JiuSik / "?
2- the term JiuSik (zhao1shi4 in mandarin) mean “forms”/“routines” (a sequence of movement) or just “movement”?
3- for sequence of movements with weapons (forms with weapons) i could use “BingHei JiuSik” or “mouhei Jiusik” , or it does not have that meaning?
i know that in mandarin we use tao4lu4 for forms, but i was trying to find a term that is used in cantonese, in guangdong’s and hk’s martial arts, the source of the style’s techniques; and i am not sure if the “tchaoshi” that chinese practitioners of the style says is this ..
tks