How to pronounce 賣豬仔 in Cantonese (1 out of 5):

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他說當年是「賣豬仔」去蘇利南
He said it was a year of "selling pigs to Sulian".

Cantonese Sentence Breakdown

他 to1
he or him
(used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant)
(used before sb's name for emphasis)
(used as a meaningless mock object)
other
another
說 syut3
to speak
to say
to explain
to scold
to tell off
a theory (usually in compounds such as 日心说 heliocentric theory)
to criticize
to try to influence someone to do something
to mean
當年 dong1 nin4
at that time
是 si6
is
賣豬仔 maai6 zyu1 zai2
(phrasal verb) to traffick labourers overseas to work as coolies; to betray
to trick (usually only used in the passive voice, 'to be betrayed'
'to be tricked'; refers to people who have to sell themselves into slavery when driven by poverty
去 heoi3
to go
to go to (a place)
to cause to go or send (sb)
(when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
to be apart from in space or time
(after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
(used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
(of a time or an event etc) just passed or elapsed
蘇利南 su1 lei6 naam4
Suriname

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