How to pronounce 第 in Cantonese (29 out of 530):

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影咗第3個take喇，唔係終於呀
I'm taking the third take, not the last.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

影 jing2
picture
image
film
movie
photograph
reflection
shadow
trace
to project a shadow
shadowy
to photograph
to film
to copy and imitate
to reflect
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
第 dai6
(prefix indicating ordinal number, e.g. first, number two etc)
order
(old) rank in the imperial examinations
mansion
(lit.) but
just
sequence
number
grade
degree
個 go3
individual
this
that
size
classifier for people or objects in general or an action
indicates approximation when placed before numbers and after a verb
adds emphasis when added before a complement used with a verb
size
height
one
possessive particle
ten thousand dollars
bucks
喇 laa3
trumpet
loudspeaker'
唔係 m4 hai6
(phrase
adverb
noun) no, not.
終於 zung1 jyu6
finally
呀 haa1
(particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)

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