How to pronounce 祖先 in Cantonese (30 out of 31):

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將夢月公祖先墳墓起了出來
Raised the tomb of Mengyue Gong’s ancestors

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

將 zoeng3
a military commander
a general officer
to command
夢 mung6
dream M: 场cháng [场]
个gè [个]
to dream
wishful thinking
月 jyut6
moon
month
monthly M: 个gè [个]
轮lún [轮]
KangXi radical 74
a surname
moon-shaped
luna
a woman's confinement month after child birth
公 gung1
public
collectively owned
common
international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar)
make public
fair
just
Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位wǔděngjuéwèi [五等爵位]
honorable (gentlemen)
father-in-law (husband' side)
male (animal)
maternal grandfather
an old man
official duties
祖先 zou2 sin1
ancestor
墳墓 fan4 mou6
grave
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
了 liu4
(modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
(completed action marker)
to finish
to end
to settle
a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
a verb particle indicating possibility
to put in
to take away
to escape
flee in secret
出來 ceot1 loi4
come out

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