How to pronounce 留 in Cantonese (58 out of 291):

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香港留得四年
Hong Kong is here for four years.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

香港 hoeng1 gong2
Hong Kong
留 lau4
to leave (a message etc)
to retain
to stay
to remain
to keep
to preserve
to halt
to stop
to detain
to study abroad
to grow
to bequeath
to set aside
to take in
to ask someone to stay
to pay attention to
to concentrate on
得 dak1
structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
to obtain
to acquire
to get
to gain
suit
proper
ready
finished
to be satisfied
to permit
to need to
to have gone as far as to
to have even done
can
四年 sei3 nin4
four years
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