How to pronounce 地下室 in Cantonese (8 out of 8):

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父親租了個地下室 讓我們三人住
Dad rented a basement apartment for us

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

父親 fu6 cing1
father
租 zou1
to hire
to rent
to charter
to rent out
to lease out
rent
land tax
rental
taxes
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
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
地下室 dei6 haa6 sat1
basement
讓 joeng6
to yield
to permit
to let sb do sth
to have sb do sth
to make sb (feel sad etc)
to allow
to concede
to convey
to transfer
to make way
to step aside
by
我們 ngo5 mun4
we
三 saam3
multiple times; repeatedly
人 jan4
man
person
people M: 个gè [个]
位wèi [位]
mankind
someone else
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

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