WITH AUNTIE · FOOD & DRINK
Tea refill, please
A short Cantonese phrase for a real conversation.
The Cantonese phrase
唔該加水m4 goi1 gaa1 seoi2
Please refill the water
When to say it
Use this at a meal when you want more water added to your tea. Make the teapot or cup you mean clear to the person helping you.
Read the Cantonese line
- Cantonese
- 唔該加水
- Jyutping
- m4 goi1 gaa1 seoi2
- English
- Please refill the water
A little more meaning.
The spoken request is ‘please add water’. The video's tea-refill situation supplies the context: the sentence itself does not contain the word for tea.
Piece it together.
- 唔該m4 goi1
- please, in this request
- 加水gaa1 seoi2
- add water
The numbers in Jyutping mark the tones. Listen to the whole phrase to hear how it flows.