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LESSON XXV (CONTINUED).
| uá àiⁿ | phah | chiũ-phah. |
| If I want to | strike | then I will strike. |
| ẽ-hûe uá chiũ | phah | i. |
| Another time I (will) | strike | him |
| thāi uá ôiⁿ, uá lâi | phah | i. |
| When I have leisure I will | strike | him. |
| Perfect and Pluperfect. | ||
| i soiⁿ | phah | uá, jiên-ãu uá phah-i. |
| He first | struck | me, and then I struck him. |
| lṳ́ būe-chêng-lâi uá | phah | i liáu. |
| Before you reached here I had previously | beaten | him. |
| uá būe-chêng-tàⁿ, i chiũ soiⁿ | phah | uá. |
| Before I had said anything he had first | beaten | me. |
| i būe-mn̄g mêng-pe̍h | phah | uá-liáu, chiàⁿ-mn̄g uá. |
| Before he had inquired clearly he | beat | me, and then asked me. |
| i m̄-jīn, tán-kàu lãu-tia | phah | cha̍p-ē, i chiàⁿ-jîn. |
| He would not confess till the mandarin had | struck | him ten blows, —then he confessed. |
| Future Perfect. | ||
| i būe | phah | uá, uá chiũ soiⁿ-phah--i. |
| Before he | strikes | me, I will have struck him. |
| ṳ̃ i a-pẽ būe-kàu uá soiⁿ | phah | hó liáu. |
| I will arrange that before his father gets here I shall first have | beaten | him. |
| Potential Mood. | ||
| uá õi tit | phah | i. |
| I can | strike | him. |
| uá | phah | i tit-kùe. |
| I can | strike | him, i.e. I am able to do it. |
| uá | phah | i m̄-tie̍h. |
| In | striking | him I cannot succeed, i.e. cannot get at him. |
| lũn | phah | õi-phah. |
| As regards | striking | I can strike. |
