How to pronounce 爺爺 in Cantonese (5 out of 42):

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一年嘅時候爺爺你開咗我
You let me go when I was a year old.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

一年 jat1 nin4
One year
嘅 koi3
indignant
generous
to sigh (with emotion)
時候 si4 hau6
time
爺爺 je4 je2
(noun) grandfather
你 nei5
you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您nín [您])
can be used to refer to an unspecified person
開 hoi1
to open
to start
to turn on
to boil
to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)
to operate (a vehicle)
carat (gold)
abbr. for Kelvin, 开尔文Kāi'ěrwén [开尔文]
abbr. for 开本kāiběn [开本], book format
to set up
to run
to leave
to hold (meeting
exhibition)
away
apart
aside
verb particle marking habitual aspect
咗 zo2
Cantonese particle equivalent to 了le [了] or 过guò [过], a particle used to indicate perfective aspect for continuous state
completed actions
past events
change of situation
我 ngo5
I
me
my
us
we
our
self

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