How to pronounce 做嘢 in Cantonese (24 out of 116):

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点解会浪费啲人做嘢噶
It's a waste of people's time.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

点 dim2
o'clock
解 haai5
to understand
acrobatic skills on horseback
part of a place name
a surname
会 will
can
浪 long4
wave
breaker
unrestrained
dissipated
wasteful
费 fai3
fee
啲 dit1
only a little bit
人 jan4
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else
做嘢 zou6 je5
(verb) to do something; to work on; to work
噶 got3
phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds)
Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha
(dialect) final particle similar to 了le [了] (esp. in Yunnan)

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