How to pronounce 三年 in Cantonese (5 out of 64):

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但誰知三年前有一次我去了海南的三亞
But who knows, I went to Shanghai, Hainan, three years ago.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

daan6
but
誰知 seoi4 zi1
who would have thought
三年 saam1 nin4
three years
cin4
front
forward
ahead
first
top (followed by a number)
future
ago
before
BC (e.g. 前293年)
former
formerly
advance
有一次 yau5 jat1 ci3
once
ngo5
I
me
my
us
we
our
self
heoi3
to go
to go to (a place)
to cause to go or send (sb)
(when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
to be apart from in space or time
(after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
(used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
(of a time or an event etc) just passed or elapsed
liu4
(modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
(completed action marker)
to finish
to end
to settle
a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
a verb particle indicating possibility
to put in
to take away
to escape
flee in secret
海南 hooi2 naam4
Hainan
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
三亞 saam1 aa3
Sanya
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