Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/le

by Adele Marion Fielde

le

• 也le107952
• A particle used to arrest the attention, and not usually needing to be translated.

i le to m̄ cai hó̤ khiah;

as for him, he knows not good from evil.

cò̤ úa le cū àiⁿ;

if it were I, I should want it.

côiⁿ le mih-mûeh to ŭ;

formerly, everything was to be had.

jîak sĭ úa le, cĭu m̄ cìeⁿ-seⁿ cò̤;

if it were I, indeed I would not do so.

kip kàu i tōa le cĭu hío kui-kṳ́;

when he is larger he will without doubt know how to behave himself.

taⁿ le cĭn m̄ sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

now-a-days, it is not so.

i tàⁿ hó̤ le;

he says it is finished.

màiⁿ le;

I do not want it.

• 弄lĕ-ké569554
• A sham; pretence; false.

cò̤ khṳ̀ lĕ-ké;

made showily and not substantially.

cí ciah chn̂g cò̤ lâi lĕ-ké, m̄ tōiⁿ, m̄ cin tieⁿ;

this table is shabbily put together, it is neither strong nor well joined.

úa thiaⁿ tîeh lĕ-lĕ ké-ké, cò̤-nî cū cin-sît cìeⁿ-seⁿ;

it sounds to me like a trumped up story, how is it that it can be true.