Cantonese Prepositions

If you're trying to learn Cantonese Prepositions you will find some useful resources including a course about time and place prepositions and and demonstrative pronouns... to help you with your Cantonese grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Cantonese. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!

Cantonese Prepositions

Learning the Cantonese Prepositions is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Cantonese language. But first we need to know what the role of Prepositions is in the structure of the grammar in Cantonese.

Cantonese prepositions link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition. Here are some examples:

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Prepositions in Cantonese has a logical pattern. Locate the Prepositions above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Yue.

List of Prepositions in Cantonese

Below is a list of the Time place and demonstrative pronouns in Cantonese placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Cantonese vocabulary.

Time place and demonstrative pronouns have a very important role in Cantonese, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with the Yue Prepositions, you might want to check the rest of our Cantonese lessons here: Learn Cantonese. Don't forget to bookmark this page.