先 in Cantonese: first, for now and not until

聽我講埋先啦 asks the listener to hear the speaker out before moving on. 講埋 contributes the idea of finishing what is being said; 先 places that before the next response or decision. The next step can be understood without being spoken.

等我再諗多幾轉先 similarly asks for thinking time before the next step. Rather than counting literal turns of thought, identify the action being given priority. In your practice notes, draw two boxes: think again, then answer.

入我數先啦 asks for an amount to go on the speaker’s account for now. The line illustrates the temporary reading of 先, but it does not establish that a particular venue offers tabs. Learn the grammar without treating the clip as a promise about how a business operates.

我要瞓陣先 puts a short sleep before what comes next. The context might supply the next activity, or the speaker may simply be asking for a pause. The phrase does not commit them to a specific later appointment unless that has been separately agreed.

我今日先知喎 says the speaker only found out today. Here 今日 comes before 先知. The useful contrast is with knowing earlier, not a proposal to put knowing first on today’s to-do list.

聽日先算啦 puts dealing with the matter off until tomorrow. Compare its timing with the final 先 in 我要瞓陣先. Words.hk records both sequence and not-until readings. The lesson is to inspect the time expression and verb around 先 rather than relying on its written position alone.

Write a plain English next step after each Cantonese line: finish speaking before you respond; think before deciding; sleep for a bit before continuing. If the clip does not specify that next step, label it your imagined context rather than part of the translation.

Then switch one imagined context and ask whether the same sentence still makes sense. This is a useful check on understanding: the Cantonese may establish an order while leaving a lot of the story open. Avoid adding an exact deadline, promise or condition that the speaker never stated.