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Lesson 9: What do you do? ( I’m a doctor. You are …) How to say that in Cantonese?

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We’ll come back to basics this time.
Simple sentence pattern:
pronoun + 系(hai6 = to be) + noun
The pronoun can be I, we, you, they, she, he, but the verb to be(hai6) does not change form.
e.g.
我系医生。(I’m a doctor.)
我哋系医生。(we are doctors.)
佢哋系政客。(They are politicians.)
佢系政客。(He/She is a politician.)

你系一位教授。（You are a professor.)
你哋系教授。 (You are professors.)
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