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身高只有籃球有啲
Your height of five feet six inches is not tall enough to enter the basketball team.

This sentence can only be used in Spoken Cantonese or informal Cantonese writing.

  Level: 3
你身高只有五尺六想入籃球隊有啲噃

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 nei5  ni3  - you
身高  san1 gou1  shen1 gao1  -  a person's height
只有  zi2 jau5  zhi3 you3  -  only have
 ng5  wu3  - five
 cek3 ce2  chi3 che3  - ruler
 luk6  liu4 {lu4}  - six
 soeng2  xiang3  - want; wish
 jap6  ru4  - enter; come in
籃球  laam4 kau4  lan2 qiu2  -  basketball
 deoi6 zeoi6  zhui4 sui4 dui4  - team; group; batch; troops
有啲  jau5 di1    -  a little
 bo3    - final particle for purpose of reminding
This sentence was added by bernard and last edited on 25th Mar 2008
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