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LESSON XII (CONTINUED).
Quantity.
- pùaⁿ-kue̍h,
- half a length.
- che̍k-ûe,
- one half.
- saⁿ-siâⁿ; cha̍p-hūn-saⁿ,
- three-tenths.
- ngõu-hūn-saⁿ,
- three-fifths.
- poih-hūn che̍k,
- one-eight.
- che̍k-peh, che̍k-chhoiⁿ,
- one hundred, one thousand.
- chhoiⁿ-chhoiⁿ būan-būan,
- thousands and tens of thousands.
- niê jie̍h-chōi,
- it measures how many? Go measure how many.
- niê i jie̍h-kûiⁿ?
- measure it how high?
- niê i jie̍h-chhim?
- measure it how deep?
- niê i jie̍h-chhién?
- measure it how shallow?
- niê i jie̍h-khuah?
- measure it how wide?
- khṳ̀ niê-i kâi-chhùn-chhieh,
- measure its feet and inches; get its dimensions.
- che̍k-pé,
- a handful.
- meⁿ che̍k-pé-bí,
- scoop up an handful of rice.
- che̍k-phóng,
- a double handful.
- na̍k-che̍k-na̍k,
- snatch up a snatch; a snatch.
- che̍k-tháng siè-siè,
- the bucket is rather scant.
- khie̍h-táu lâi niê-iâm,
- take a peck-measure and measure the salt.
- niê-thóiⁿ jie̍h-chōi-tñg,
- measure and see how much its length.
- téng-i jie̍h-chōi kṳn-tãng,
- have weigh it, how many pounds heavy.
- téng-hó a-būe,
- heave you weighed it or not yet?
- téng-hó--liáu,
- have weighed it.
- téng-hó--liáu m̄-kàu,
- weighed it, it isn’t enough.
- phêng-ngṳ̂n,
- to weigh silver.
- phêng-ũ saⁿ-cha̍p-nié,
- it weights thirty ounces.
- lóng-chóng,
- all.
- chhù-lãi lóng-chóng-nâng,
- all the people in the house.
- chèng-nâng hâng-ho̍k i,
- all the people submitted themselves to him.
- chèng-chèng sĩ pêⁿ-iēⁿ,
- all [emphatic] are of the same kind.
- chōi-chãi, bô-kò hó-pàng,
- very many, no place to put them.
- thàn-m̄-kàu só-hùi,
- earned not enough (to meet) expenses.
- thàn bô-lã-chia̍h,
- earned not enough to eat.
- pâng-lãi, chn̂g-kâi sĩ húe-hun,
- in the room all was smoke, i.e. filled with smoke.
