How to pronounce 十六 in Cantonese (59 out of 62):

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十六歲了 還叫我去讀中文嗎」
sixteen years old, and you still want me to learn Chinese?"

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

十六 sap6 luk6
sixteen
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
還 waan4
still
still in progress
still more
yet
even more
in addition
fairly
passably (good)
as early as
even
also
else
besides
to return (to a place)
to give back
to repay
to return something
again
to revert to the original state
叫 giu3
to shout
to call
to order
to ask
to be called
by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
to cry
to hail
to greet
to cause
我 ngo5
I
me
my
us
we
our
self
去 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
讀 duk6
to read
to study
reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音pīnyīn [拼音]
to attend school
中文 zung1 man4
Chinese language
嗎 maa5
morphine

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