How to pronounce 可是 in Cantonese (145 out of 326):

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我買了，可是我發現手機是放不進去的！
I bought it, but I found that my phone couldn’t fit in it!

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

我 ngo5
I
me
my
us
we
our
self
買 maai5
to buy
to purchase
to bribe
to persuade
to bet
to place a bet on
to kill
to have killed
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
可是 ho2 si6
however
發現 faat3 jyun6
discover
手機 sau2 gei1
mobile phone
是 si6
is
放 fong3
to release
to free
to let go
to put
to place
to let out
to set off (fireworks)
to dismiss
to let off
to lend for interest
to send into exile
to blossom
to enlarge
to lengthen
to let out
to put (animals) out to graze
uninhibited
to be open (unconstrained sexually)
不 fau2
same as否 (dated used in old text only), not
no
negative prefix
a final particle
進去 zeon3 heoi3
go in
的 dik1
of
~'s (possessive particle)
(used after an attribute)
(used to form a nominal expression)
(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
truly
really
indeed
target
to lift up
few
small
to fetch
to move
to get
to pick up
to force

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