How to pronounce 妈 in Cantonese (5 out of 55):

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「妈妈想你们三个各自起一所房子，」
"I want you three to build a house".

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

妈 maa1
mom
想 soeng2
to think
to believe
to suppose
to wish
to want
to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)
to plan
你 nei5
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
们 men2
plural suffix for pronouns
三 saam3
multiple times; repeatedly
个 go3
measure word
各自 gok3 zi6
each respective
起 hei2
to rise
to raise
to get up
to set out
to start
to appear
to launch
to initiate (action)
to draft
to establish
to get (from a depot or counter)
verb suffix, to start
(before place or time) starting from
classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
classifier for groups: batch, group
to stand up
to go up
to happen
to take place
to uncover
一 jat1
one
single
a (article)
as soon as
entire
whole
all
throughout
"one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
first (positional)
one part of a fraction, such as 'a' quarter, an eighth
a short duration (when used with a verb)
each
same
dedicated
from the start
所 so2
actually
place
classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc
that which
particle introducing a relative clause or passive M: 个gè [个]
a building
a bureau
a station
an office
that which
all that
whatever
a unit
房子 fong2 zi2
house

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