Question 1
In the Cantonese sentence 「我食咗飯喇」 (ngo5 sik6 zo2 faan6 laa3), what does the particle 「咗」 (zo2) indicate?
Correct Answer:
Completed/perfective aspect (the action of eating is done)
Question 2
Cantonese is traditionally described as having how many lexical (contrastive) tones in the Jyutping system commonly taught today?
Correct Answer:
Six tones
Question 3
A NYSTCE Interpretive Listening item plays a recording in which a speaker says 「呢間餐廳啲嘢食又貴又唔好食」. What is the speaker's attitude toward the restaurant?
Correct Answer:
Negative — the food is both expensive and bad
Question 4
Which Cantonese sentence-final particle in 「你食飯未呀?」 signals that the utterance is a yes/no question?
Correct Answer:
呀 (aa4)
Question 5
The Cantonese idiom 「食碗面反碗底」 literally refers to eating from a bowl then flipping it. What does it figuratively mean?
Correct Answer:
To betray someone who has helped you (biting the hand that feeds)
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