How to pronounce 第 in Cantonese (8 out of 530):

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今天第2天終於來到鎮海了
Today is the second day of the year.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

今天 gam1 tin1
today
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
天 tin1
day
sky
heaven
natural
given by nature
god
season
weather
emperor
imperial
the most important thing in life
husband
celestial
above one's head
the cover of a coffin
終於 zung1 jyu6
finally
來到 loi4 dou3
have come to
鎮海 zan3 hoi2
Zhenhai
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

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