How to pronounce 九十 in Cantonese (27 out of 36):

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撒萊那時已經有九十歲了。

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

撒 saat3
to let go
to cast
to let loose
to discharge
to give expression to
to disperse
to relax
to scatter
to leak
to excrete
a surname
萊 loi4
name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc)
Chenopodium album
fallow field
那時 naa5 si4
then
已經 ji5 ging1
already
有 jau6
also
again
九十 gau2 sap6
Ninety
歲 seoi3
classifier for years (of age)
year
year (of crop harvests)
age
了 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

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