講 |
1. (chiefly dialectal Mandarin Cantonese Hakka Min Wu Xiang) to say; to talk; to speak | |
你 講 咩 呀? - What are you saying? | |
你 唔 早 講! - Why didn't you say so earlier!? | |
何解 不 講 噠? (o2 gai3 bu6 gan3 da?, X) - Why aren't you saying anything? | |
2. to tell; to inform | |
我 無 共 伊 講。 - I didn't tell him., MN | |
我 冇 同 佢 講。 - I didn't tell him. | |
我 冇 跟 他 講。 (ngo3 mau5 gen1 ta1 gan3, X) - I didn't tell him. | |
3. to speak (a language) | |
講 英語 - to speak English | |
他 會 講 英語,而且 講 得de 好。 - He can speak English, and what's more he speaks it very well. | |
我 唔識 講 廣東話waa6-2。 - I don't speak Cantonese. | |
儂 好 流利 個 講 英文 ?? - Can you speak English fluently?, SH | |
你 長沙話 曉得 講 啵? (nyi3 zhan2 sa1 fa5 xiau3 de gan3 bo?, X) - Can you speak Changsha Xiang? | |
4. to explain; to lecture | |
5. to discuss; to negotiate | |
6. to emphasise; to pay attention to; to take into account | |
講 衛生 - to pay attention to hygiene | |
不 講 武德 - to not obey ethics of martial arts | |
7. speech; lecture | |
8. (Hokkien) (Used after a verb to introduce a clause that is the object of the verb:) that | |