Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/pat
pat
[edit]- m̄ pat;
- do not know.
- m̄ pat lō;
- do not know the way.
- úa m̄ pat i;
- I am not acquainted with him.
- i m̄ pat tŏ̤-lí;
- he does not understand the doctrine.
- i m̄ pat nâng;
- he does not understand human nature.
- m̄ pat hó̤ khiap;
- does not know how to discriminate between good and evil.
- sie pat kâi nâng;
- an acquaintance.
- úa kāng i sie pat;
- I am acquainted with him.
- lṳ́ sĭ kio i sie pat a m̄ sĭ?
- He is an acquaintance of yours, is he not?
- pat lói-sìo kâi nâng;
- one who knows how to behave himself in company.
- pat jī pat bâk;
- familiar with literature.
- lṳ́ jīn thóiⁿ pat mē?
- Do you recognize it?
- úa pat tò̤ jīn;
- I recognize it.
- úa thiaⁿ m̄ pat tò̤ khṳ̀;
- I do not understand what is said.
- ùa thóiⁿ m̄ pat tò̤ khṳ̀;
- I do not know how to look at it insuch a way as to see it.
- úa tàⁿ m̄ pat tò̤ khṳ̀;
- I do not know what I ought to say.
- cò̤-nî tàⁿ i to m̄ pat;
- whatever you say to him he does not understand it.
- tàⁿ kàu mêng-mêng pêh-pêh i cong-kú m̄ pat;
- though you speak in the plainest way, he never understands.
- úa pat thóiⁿ-kìⁿ i;
- I have seen it before.
- būe pat thiaⁿ-kìⁿ cí kĭaⁿ sṳ̆;
- I had not heard of this.
- cí kâi tī-hng úa m̄ pat kàu;
- I have not before been here.
- úa pat kàu nín cí kò̤ ŭ saⁿ sì hûe;
- I have been here at your house two or three times.
- úa cṳ̆-lâi m̄ pat pēⁿ-thìaⁿ;
- I have never before been ill.
- úa pat thiaⁿ-kìⁿ nâng tàⁿ;
- I have heard it said.
- i pat cò̤ kùe;
- he has made them before.
- pât nâng;
- other people.
- pât tîo lō;
- another road.
- pât mûeh;
- other things.
- ŭ pât mûeh a bô̤?
- Have you anything else?
- bô pât mih kâi;
- have nothing beside.
- ŭ pât īeⁿ;
- have other kinds.
- m̄ sĭ pât nâng;
- it is none but yourself; seeing that it is you.
- àiⁿ khù pât kô̤;
- am going elsewhere.
- pât kâi tī-hng bô̤;
- it is not to be found in other places.
- pât kok īa ŭ;
- other countries have it.
- tîeh kùe pât séⁿ;
- must go to another province.
- bô̤ pât ŵn-kù;
- there is no other cause for it.