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LESSON XV (CONTINUED).
Conjunctions.
- Whether, or—a, ho̍k, ho̍k-chiá.
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- lṳ́ nāⁿ-chí thóiⁿ-ũ a-bô,
- you stay here and see (whether) they have or not.
- i bô-lâi,
- m̄-chai i sĩ-pēⁿ a-sĩ m̄-ôiⁿ, he does not come, I don't know whether he is ill, or whether he hasn’t leisure.
- ho̍k-ũ,
- ho̍k-bô, bô-chhiet-iàu, whether he has or not is of no consequence.
- bô-lũn sĩ-ta-pou chṳ-niêⁿ,
- no matter whether man or woman.
- m̄-kuán-i sĩ-tōa a-sĩ-sòi,
- no matter whether it is large or small.
- But, although—sui-sĩ, sui-jiên, tãn-sĩ, chóng-sĩ.
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- sui-jiên-sĩ uá m̄-káⁿ siang-sìn--i,
- but although it is so I dare not believe him.
- tãn-sĩ ũi-hõu mài-khṳ̀,
- but if it rains don’t go.
- chóng-sĩ chí-kâi-sṳ̄ uá chò-m̄-pat tò-khṳ̀,
- but this business is something I don’t know how to do, (or, never did).
- Yet—huân.
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- huân-iáu-ũ,
- huân-liáu-ũ, yet there are (more).
- būe-chêng-ũ,
- not yet have.
- huân-iáu-būe,
- still yet they have not.
- huân-liáu būe-ũ-nâng-lâi,
- and still yet no one has come.
- Therefore—kù-chhṳ́, só-íⁿ, só-íⁿ-chiá.
- Than—nî-hùe chōi-kùe-i,
- years more than his.
- iàⁿ-kùe-i; kiêⁿ-kùe-i,
- better than he.
- Lest—khióng-phàⁿ, khióng-ùi, kiaⁿ-ùi.
- On the contrary—i bô-sie-hũ, tin-tò chó-chí,
- he did not assist, on the contrary he hindered.
- Except—tṳ̂-tiāu chí-che̍k-kiãⁿ, uá chiũ káⁿ-tam-sêng--i,
- excepting this one thing, I can venture to be security for him.
- Then, thereupon—chiũ; jiên-ãu.
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- íⁿ-ãu,
- after that.
- buah-hún chiũ-õi-ngiá,
- rub on powder and then it will be beautiful.
- chhiù-sua chiũ-õi-pe̍h,
- scour it with sand and then it can be white.
- kàu-hṳ́-chôiⁿ kâi-hieⁿ-lí chiũ-sĩ,
- when you reach that village before you, then it is (the matter spoken of).
- bô-o̍h chiũ-bõi,
- (if you) don’t learn, then you can’t.
- liēn-kùe chiũ-õi,
- when you have practised it then you can.
