How to pronounce 沉 in Cantonese (26 out of 50):

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吹起後根本沒辦法...它會這樣沉下去

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

吹 ceoi3
to sing and play music
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
後 hau6
back
behind
rear
afterwards
after
later
descendants
then
a surname
future
after next
succeeding
根本 gan1 bun2
essentially
沒辦法 mut6 baan6 faa3
no way
它 to1
it
other
used as a meaningless mock object
會 wui6
a moment (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [huǐ])
metropolitan
gatherings union
to meet
to catch up
這樣 ze2 joeng6
like this
沉 zam6
to submerge
to immerse
to sink
to keep down
to lower
to drop
deep
profound
heavy
to be addicted to
下去 haa6 heoi3
(verb) Go down stairs (e.g. from certain floor to ground floor)

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