WITH AUNTIE · PEOPLE
Have you eaten?
A short Cantonese phrase for a real conversation.
The Cantonese phrase
食咗飯未呀sik6 zo2 faan6 mei6 aa3
Have you eaten yet?
When to say it
Ask someone whether they have already eaten, such as when checking in before making meal plans.
Read the Cantonese line
- Cantonese
- 食咗飯未呀
- Jyutping
- sik6 zo2 faan6 mei6 aa3
- English
- Have you eaten yet?
A little more meaning.
食咗飯 refers to having eaten a meal. 未 makes this a question about whether that has happened yet; the listener is understood without saying ‘you’.
Piece it together.
- 食咗飯sik6 zo2 faan6
- have eaten a meal
- 未mei6
- yet?
- 呀aa3
- sentence ending used in this question
The numbers in Jyutping mark the tones. Listen to the whole phrase to hear how it flows.