Fixed, secure, tranquil, steady; used after an expression to enforce it; really, certainly, absolutely; brought to a proper state; at rest, set; to fix, to settle on, to decide.
cêk tīaⁿ put êk kâi;
fixed beyond all possibility of change.
pit-tīaⁿ;
surely, positively.
kio i tīaⁿ kâi chin tŏ̤-kò̤;
has secured a wife for him.
tīaⁿ i saⁿ peh tàⁿ hue;
made a contract with him for three hundred piculs of lime.
khîeh nŏ̤ kâi ngṳ̂n khṳt i siu tīaⁿ;
gave him two dollars to bind the bargain.
i ieh tīaⁿ móng jît àiⁿ lâi;
he promised positively to come ou a certain day.
tàⁿ khṳ̀ bô̤ tīaⁿ-cún;
did not say definitely.
bô̤ tīaⁿ-tîeh;
not exactly.
hŵn-lío būe tīaⁿ;
it is not yet decided.
cía m̄ tīaⁿ;
this is uncertain.
i àiⁿ khîeh-tńg tīaⁿ-ngṳ̂n;
he wishes to give back the money that was given him to bind the bargain.
chùn si ûi tīaⁿ;
every detail is fixed by contract.
cîah i kâi tīaⁿ-thâu-ngṳ̂n;
made off with the money given to bind the contract.
kâi ngṳ̂n cò̤ tīaⁿ;
a dollar paid as security.
hàm i thóiⁿ tīaⁿ;
tell him to look at it in such a way as to he sure about it.
thiaⁿ tīaⁿ-tīaⁿ;
listen so carefully as to be certain what was said.
