How to pronounce 做嘢 in Cantonese (92 out of 116):

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坐喺個寫字樓做嘢先係工作呢？
sit in an office to work?

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

坐 zo6
to sit
to take a seat
to take (a bus, airplane etc)
to bear fruit
variant of 座zuò [座]
a seat
for a building to have its back towards
to put something on a fire
to be sentenced
喺 hai2
in
個 go3
individual
this
that
size
classifier for people or objects in general or an action
indicates approximation when placed before numbers and after a verb
adds emphasis when added before a complement used with a verb
size
height
one
possessive particle
ten thousand dollars
bucks
寫字樓 se2 zi6 lau4
(noun) workplace
做嘢 zou6 je5
(verb) to do something; to work on; to work
先 sin3
early
prior
former
in advance
first
for now
ancestor
pioneering
only then
係 hai6
(Cantonese) to be
to connect
to relate to
to tie up
to bind
to be (literary)
to involve
relation
relationship
consequence
yes
indeed
right
工作 gung1 zok3
work
呢 ni1
this

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