Chunshek<p>There is no grammatical <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/tense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tense</span></a> in either <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/Cantonese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cantonese</span></a> or <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/Mandarin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mandarin</span></a>, but there are a whopping 39 verb suffixes in Cantonese, including 15 <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/aspect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aspect</span></a> markers! In contrast, Mandarin has 3 aspect-marking verb suffixes. (For reference: there are 4 aspects in English, of which 3 are marked.)</p><p><a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/%E8%8F%AF%E8%AA%9E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>華語</span></a> 同 <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/%E5%BB%A3%E6%9D%B1%E8%A9%B1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>廣東話</span></a> 一樣，冇 <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/%E6%99%82%E6%85%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>時態</span></a> (tense)，但係會用 <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/%E5%8B%95%E8%A9%9E%E5%BE%8C%E7%B6%B4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>動詞後綴</span></a> 表示 <a href="https://polyglot.city/tags/%E9%AB%94" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>體</span></a> （aspect，類似英文嘅進行式、完成式）。</p><p>華語只有3種動詞後綴：了、著、過<br>廣東話就有39種動詞後綴，包括 15 種「體」：咗、過、落（實現體）、定、緊、吓、住、實、生晒、衡晒、起上嚟、起、得、落（開始體）、開</p><p>Source 來源：<br>《語法講義》朱德熙<br>《粵語語法講義》鄧思穎</p>