How to pronounce 眼 in Cantonese (70 out of 466):

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好返隻眼又冇咗
And then I lost my eye.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

好 hou3
to like
to love
to be fond of
to be liable to
to be likely to
返 faan1
to return (to)
to revert to
to restore
to go back
to come back
隻 zek3
classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
single
alone
one only
one of pair
month (in prison sentence)
眼 ngaan5
eye
small hole
crux (of a matter) M: 只zhī [只]
双shuāng [双]
classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc) or needle, nail, lamp etc
eyelet
opening
aperture
salient point
insight
trap (in chess)
unaccented beat (in opera)
eyesight
又 jau6
(once) again
also
both... and...
and yet
(used for emphasis) anyway
and (used in the context when talking about fractions)
in adddition
冇 mo5
to not have (Cantonese)
Mandarin equivalent: 没有méiyǒu [没有]
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

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