Dec 14 2007
Taiwanese Lesson 17
Note: these lessons use Campbell Universal Pinyin which I use for transcribing all Sinitic languages–there are only a few changes from Mandarin Pinyin.
| buy groceries | bbe  -cai |
買菜 |
| attend a wedding | lim hi-jiu |
lim = drink, hí-jiú = 喜酒 |
| study English | oh  ing  -bbun |
學英文 |
| learn how to paint | oh ue  -do |
學畫圖 |
| learn calligraphy | oh xiá mo-bit  -li |
學寫毛筆字, xiá = write, mơ̂-bit = brush, lī (jji) = word/character |
| learn computers | oh dian-nau |
學電腦 |
| Are you free this Saturday? | jit-e le-bai -lak li gam-u ing? |
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| There are two days off this weekend (Saturday) | jit le-bai-lak xi jiu-hiu nng-lit |
jiu-hiu = 週休 weekly rest day (=day off), nn̄g-lἰt = 兩日 two days. In many of the Chinese languages, there is another word for two, similar to ‘a couple’, that replaces two when counting things. |
| Let’s go to a department store, ok? | zë-hue ki bah-hue-gong-xi, hë bbëº |
bah-huè-gong-xi = 百貨公司 department store |
| Ok, I haven’t been there in such a long time. | hë aº, ggua jin-gu bbë ki aº |
jin-gú = a long time, bbô kì = haven’t gone |
| Today’s Sunday. | gin-a-lit xi le-bai |
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| We get tomorrow off. | bbin-a-zai u hong-ga |
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| The day after tomorrow is for hiking. | au-lit ki be-suaN, hë bbëº |
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| I ran into Ms. Li yesterday. | za-hng ggua du-dioh li xië-jia |
dú-dio̍h = 遇著 meet/run into |
| I’m going to go buy groceries in the morning. | ggua zai-ki bbeh ki bbe-cai laº |
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| It’s probably going to rain in the afternoon. | e-bo kë-ling e loh-ho |
lo̍h-hơ̅ = 落雨 fall-rain/raining |
| It’s very hot during the day. | lit -xi-e tiN-ki jin luah |
日時的天氣真熱 |
| I’m going to a wedding this evening. | am-xi bbeh-ki lim hi-jiu |
àm-xî = 暗時 evening/night |
| It’s very cold at midnight. | buaN-mi-xi tiN-ki bien lieng |
bièn líng = 變冷 become/get cold, puaN-mî-xî = 半暝時, add xî (時) after a time to indicate something happening at that time. |
| I was very busy last month. | ggua ding-gë ggueh jin bbë ing |