There are quite a few resources available for learning spoken Cantonese but i’ve found it difficult to find resources to learn Cantonese grammar.
For example, the sentence “he asked me to send you some photos” is, in my opinion, not a difficult sentence to translate in many languages but it seems particularly difficult in cantonese:
佢叫我 send的畫比你 keui yiu ngoh send dik waak bei nei he + ask + I + send + of + photo + ? + you
I have found this is called the “passive voice” but i don’t understand the sentence order or why/where this “bei” is used.
Does anyone have any good resources for learning cantonese grammar, especially making sentences?
Thanks for your info, but given this is near the end of the explanation of “比”, this is probably rarely used. In fact, this usage gives me a feeling of being overly lazy or illiterate. My recommendation is to forget about this and use the other two when they’re more appropriate.
I can use the original one but I don’t think this variation is rarely used, it was used by a native speaker to translate the sentence
https://cantonesemuseum.blogspot.com/2018/02/blog-post_13.html?m=1
https://articles.omghomework.com/畀俾比/
Here’s a more advanced but subjective one.
https://notesbooks.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/畀俾比.使駛洗/
You can see that they all mention the mix of “畀/俾” but not “比”.
understood, thank you for the feedback!