Miscellaneous translations

[matt]

Hi Everyone.

I have a few translations. Any help will be greatly!! appreciated.

1) I had a few questions on car (auto) terms. Are the words "tui hou" and "tui chin" to reverse and to back up respectively. If not, what is "tui hou" and "tui chin"? And how would you say "reverse" and "back up"? How do you say "step on the gas" - is it "chai you"? And how would one say "step on the brake"?

2) The next words are English -> Cantonese translations. I wanted to ask how do you say "plenty" (like "there was plenty"), "catch" as in "catching a ball" or "catching bananas."

3) The next set is from Cantonese -> English... The translations are as follows: "ngan bao" (purse?), "jaak ngaan," "faat goon," "jeot ji (jeot sounds like "jeot" as in to rub/massage)", "jung/joong ji" (i think jeot/jung ji have something to deal with things that should've/could've been). The last word is a phrase "hai jun" (it is true) - is this a phrase that means something like "it would be good" so if you said something "hai jun"... would mean it would be a good idea to do that something?

-Matt

[Terence]

1. tan3 hau6 褪後 and tan3 cin4 褪前, both mean reverse, the latter mean more: move backwards to the front.

1.1 jaai2 jau2 㯭油 or caai2 jau2 踹油, both mean step the pedal to accelerate speed.

1.2 jaai2 bik6 lik1 㯭迫力 or caai2 bik6 lik1 踹迫力 both mean step brake. these are Hong Kong expression, in which bik6 lik1 is a sound translation from brake. In formal chinese it should be saat3 ce1 剎車.

2. hou2 do1 好多 many / plenty
2.1 catch the ball 接著個波 zip3 zyu6 go3 bo1

[matt]

any ideas on tui hou/tui chin?

and the rest?

[matt]

*correction i think on

3. jyut ji - "on purpose" (I think as in jyut ji jo- done on purpose) .. but i'm not sure on jung/joeng ji?

marinate on this!

[Terence]

1. tui3 hau6 退後, the same as tan3 hau6, the former is written form, the latter is spoken form. while we don't have tui3 cin4 but have tan3 cin4 in spoken form. unless you want to say tui3 cin2 退錢, money back

3. ngan4 baau1 銀包, purse
3.1 jaak1 aan3 喫晏, have lunch,
3.1.1 zaak6 ngan2 擲銀, throw coin
3.2 faat3 gun1 法官, judge
3.3 zeot1 zi1 卒之, at last , eventually
3.4 zung1 zi1 終之, same as 3.3
3.4.1 zou2 zi1 早知, if i had been AWARE of that, i would not have ....
3.5 hai6 zan1 是真, it is true, genuine,