How to pronounce 七十 in Cantonese (38 out of 53):

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我曾聽過一個六、七十後的男士說
once heard a man in his sixties or seventies say that his current situation, that he's still working, is because he married an unintelligent wife who doesn't work, and he doesn't dare quit his job or venture out. As a result, at 40, he's

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

我 ngo5
I
me
my
us
we
our
self
曾 zang1
great-grand
great-great grand
a surname
聽過 teng1 gwo3
have heard
一個 jat1 go3
a; one
六 luk6
six
七十 cat1 sap6
seventy
後 hau6
back
behind
rear
afterwards
after
later
descendants
then
a surname
future
after next
succeeding
的 dik1
of
~'s (possessive particle)
(used after an attribute)
(used to form a nominal expression)
(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
truly
really
indeed
target
to lift up
few
small
to fetch
to move
to get
to pick up
to force
男士 naam4 si6
gentleman
說 syut3
to speak
to say
to explain
to scold
to tell off
a theory (usually in compounds such as 日心说 heliocentric theory)
to criticize
to try to influence someone to do something
to mean

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