How to pronounce 柴米油鹽 in Cantonese (5 out of 6):

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先至夠你去支付你嘅柴米油鹽 先至夠兩餐食
just enough to pay for your daily necessities, just enough to put two meals a day on the table.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

先至 sin1 zi3
(adv.) only then; not until; only after; then
夠 gau3
to reach
to be enough
adequate
tired of
fed up with
too
你 nei5
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
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
支付 zap1 fai3
Payment
嘅 koi3
indignant
generous
to sigh (with emotion)
柴米油鹽 caa4 mai5 jau4 jim4
necessities of life
兩 loeng5
two
both
some
a few
tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1
16 of a catty 斤jīn [斤] (old)
a group of about ten people
餐 caan1
meal
to eat
classifier for meals, scolding, beating
a fix
dose of drug
a sex session
食 zi6
to feed

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