Cantonese Thank you

[tisoi]

Which Cantonese word for "thank you" should a customer use toward a cashier, 唔該 or 多謝?

Comments

[dustthouart]

唔該 definitely.

Here's a great blog post about it.

[trinker]

Thank you very much! I had no idea that mgoi was not the direct translation of xiexie. (I'm not a Cantonese speaker at all, and only barely familiar with Mandarin from studying it in college.)

[greentea173]

Cantonese is different from Mandarin in many aspects.
Cantonese is a hybrid between Chinese and Tai-Kadai language/Viet but of course Cantonese has more Chinese elements inside.
Mgoi maybe derive from Tai-Kadai.
Thai calls "no" as "mai", and Cantonese calls "no" as "m" and "mai"
Mgoi maybe from Tai-Kadai

[tisoi]

Ah! Cool. Thanks!