How to pronounce 冇用 in Cantonese (69 out of 70):

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議員催住拿錢起幾億冇用廢墩避雨亭
Legislators urged for hundreds of millions of dollars to build useless ruins, rain shelters, and

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

議員 ji5 jyun4
councillor
催 ceoi1
to speed up
住 zyu6
to live
to dwell
to stay
to reside
to stop
(suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
used after a verb to indicate a continuous state or an action which has not been completed yet
used between two verbs to indicate the two actions being performed simultaneously
used after a verb to indicate the action is temporary, similar to adding 'for now' or 'yet' after a verb
拿 naa4
to hold
to seize
to catch
to apprehend
to take
(used in the same way as 把bǎ [把]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
to pick up
with
to arrest
to use
to be confirmed
there!
here!
look!
to give something the finger
幾 gei2
how much
how many
several
a few
quite
shortly thereafter
億 jik1
100 million
many
冇用 mou5 jung6
useless
廢 fai3
to abolish
to abandon
to abrogate
to discard
to depose
to oust
crippled
abandoned
waste
useless
to fall of
invalid
墩 dan1
block
gate pillar
pier
classifier for clusters of plants
classifier for rounds in a card game: trick
a sitting block
避雨 bei6 jyu5
to take shelter from the rain
亭 ting4
pavilion
booth
kiosk
erect
to nurture and develop
well-balanced
mid (day)

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