How to Use Cantonese in a Sentence

Cantonese

noun

• By 10, he was known as Ken and no longer understood Cantonese well.
  — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 2024-05-14
• The girls tagged along and had the opportunity to watch their mother speak Cantonese and do business.
  — Flora Tsapovsky, San Francisco Chronicle, 2023-05-12
• Wong said Cantonese includes a lot of slang and phrases that aren’t normally said in Mandarin or English.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 2023-09-12
• But finding staff who speak Cantonese or other Asian languages like Bengali is even more difficult.
  — Rong Xiaoqing, Curbed, 2023-08-21
• Speakers of Cantonese or other non-Mandarin languages can use platforms besides Douyin, at least for now.
  — Gina Anne Tam, Foreign Affairs, 2023-09-19
• No cuisine is a monolith, and that seems especially true in the case of Cantonese cooking across Los Angeles right now.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 2023-07-20
• In the table tennis room, fans whir while pairs of players in their 70s and 80s dart at the ball, exclaiming in Cantonese while working up a sweat.
  — Ashley Milne-Tyte, The Christian Science Monitor, 2024-10-08
• In many languages, including Lao, Farsi, Yucatec, and Cantonese, taste turned out to be the most expressible sense.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 2024-12-23
• The English, Cantonese and Hindi-language project is budgeted at $1.2 million.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2024-03-12
• Kevin Lee, 37, said the performance can be an avenue for young people to engage with their heritage in ways that feel less like work than learning Cantonese or Mandarin.
  — Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 2024-02-09
• Per the recruiting firm’s engagement plan, an online community survey — available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Cantonese — is expected to be launched at the end of the month.
  — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 2025-03-26
• Over the centuries that followed, this linguistic diversity increased, with growing immigration from China bringing other languages such as Hakka, Cantonese and Hokkien.
  — Will Buckingham, The Dial, 2024-11-27
• This family dynamic allowed Jessica to be exposed to lots of different languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese—her grandmother's native village dialect.
  — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 2025-03-12
• Dragon Restaurant Dragon Restaurant has been serving Cantonese and Szechuan cuisine for over thirty years, with the first location opening in Northern Cyprus in the 1980s before expanding into Istanbul.
  — Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Checkers of my era—their number grew from twenty to twenty-five during my three-year tenure—collectively spoke fifteen languages, including Urdu, Cantonese, Japanese, Arabic, Greek, Russian, and Twi, with a working knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025