Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/kwt
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kwt
- i íⁿ-keng kwt-ì àiⁿ cò̤;
- he has already decided that he will do it.
- hṳ́ kĭaⁿ sṳ̄ ŭ cêk kwt a būe ŭ?
- Is that matter decided yet or not?
- i kâi nâng cò̤ sṳ̄ m̄ kúaⁿ-kwt;
- he acts in an undecided way.
- i a-bó̤ cò̤ sū kèng kwt-tẁn;
- his mother acts with greater decision.
- i hŵn-lío chî gî, būe kwt;
- he still delays and doubts, and is not yet decided about it.
- kwt-kwt m̄ hù ieh cū sĭ;
- certainly will not fail to carry out the contract.
- kwt put cîah ngân;
- will positively not retract.
- kwt-tīaⁿ ŏi tit sêng;
- certainly may succeed.
- 訣kwt4471494
- Parting or dying words; an art, a rule; a mystery, occult doctrines, a trick in legerdemain; hidden; abstruse.
- tit tîeh i kâi pì-kwt;
- got the secret of it, (as of a trade).
- kháu kwt;
- gibberish.
- i kâi kwt-sût cōi;
- they have many superstitious observances.
- mih īeⁿ sṳ̄ ā-sĭ tit kwt cū kōi cò̤;
- anything is easily done if you can get at the art of doing it.
- kai-kwt;
- to contain; to embrace.
- pau-kwt;
- to include.
- cí kù ūe pau-kwt thong cieⁿ kâi ì-sṳ̀;
- this sentence contains the gist of the whole chapter.
- pât nâng tàⁿ cōi-cōi hŵn-lío m̄ cheng-chó̤, khṳt i tàⁿ cò̤ nŏ̤ kù cū kai-kwt khṳ̀;
- other people talk a great deal and still do not express what he will say in two sentences.