How to pronounce 短 in Cantonese (85 out of 404):

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啲短詞擺喺邊、點樣讀起嚟比較似母語者寫作

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

啲 dit1
only a little bit
短 dyun2
short
brief
to lack
weak point
fault
deficient
lacking
shortcomings
mistakes
to owe
unwise
inadequate
insufficient
詞 ci4
word
statement
speech
lyrics M: 组zǔ [组]
个gè [个]
classical Chinese poem M: 首shǒu [首]
phrase
expression
擺 baai2
to arrange
to exhibit
to move to and fro
a pendulum
to put
to place
to display
to swing
to sway
to put on (an expression)
喺 hai2
in
邊 bin1
side
edge
margin
border
boundary M: 个gè [个]
simultaneously
verge
hem
limits
bounds
nearby
near to
a surname
which
where
what
點樣 dim2 joeng2
(question)(phrase) what's with it?; what's up? ; how's it like?; how?; what is it like?
讀 duk6
to read
to study
reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音pīnyīn [拼音]
to attend school
起嚟 hei2 lai4
when (spoken)
比較 bei2 gaau3
compare
似 ci5
seems as if
rather like
Taiwan pr. [sìde]
to resemble
母語 mo5 jyu5
mother tongue
者 ze2
(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...
(after a noun) person involved in ...
-er
-ist
(used after a number or 后hòu [后] or 前qián [前] to refer to sth mentioned previously)
(used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)
(old) (used at the end of a command)
(old) this
a surname
denoting a portion
this
these
yes, yes! (exclamation)
寫作 se2 zok3
writing

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