How to pronounce 親眼 in Cantonese (5 out of 24):

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餓底親眼見到店員請咗一位
I was hungry and saw the shopkeeper hire one.

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

餓 ngo6
to be hungry
hungry
to be greedy for
底 dik1
an alternative form for the word的, a possessive, adjectival suffix
親眼 can1 ngaan5
personally
見到 gin3 dou2
see
店員 dim3 jyun4
shop assistant
請 zing6
(history) for the princes (or their representatives) to have an audience with the Emperor
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
一 jat1
one
single
a (article)
as soon as
entire
whole
all
throughout
"one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
first (positional)
one part of a fraction, such as 'a' quarter, an eighth
a short duration (when used with a verb)
each
same
dedicated
from the start
位 wai6
position
location
place
seat
classifier for people (honorific)
classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
throne
post
rank
status

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