Elementary Lessons In The Swatow Dialect/Lesson 2

by J. C. G.

LESSON II.—General.

1. Come here!
2. Who has come?
3. No one has come?
4. Who is that?
5. I don’t know.
6. He’s not a good man.
7. Tell him to go away.
8. Open the door,
9. Shut the door.
10. Call the teacher.
11. Come quickly.
12. Where’s A-Kah?
13. Has he come?
14. Call him back.
15. Come tomorrow.
16. He needn’t come back.
17. He can’t come.
18. Get another man.
19. He doesn’t wish to come.
20. Come with me.
21. How many men are there?
22. More than ten.
23. Altogether there are sixty men.
24. Are there any children?
25. This is a boy.
26. Is this a boy or a girl?
27. He is in my employ.
28. Who is your master?
29. He is a Chinaman.
30. He is not one of your countrymen.
31. Where does he live?
32. A long way from here.

1. Lâi!
2. Ũ sĩ-mih nâng lâi?
3. Bô nâng lâi.
4. I sĩ sĩ-mih-nâng, (or) I sĩ tî-tiâng?
5. M̄-tsai.
6. M̄-sĩ hó-nâng.
7. Hàm i khṳ̀.
8. Khui-mn̂g.
9. Kueⁿ-mn̂g.
10. Hàm sin-seⁿ lâi.
11. Mé-mé lâi.
12. A-Kah tõ-tî-kò?
13. Ũ-lâi a-bô?
14. Hàm-i tńg--lâi.
15. Mùa-khí lâi.
16. I mín-ēng tńg--lâi.
17. I bõi-tit-lâi.
18. Hàm pa̍t-nâng lâi.
19. I m̄-àiⁿ-lâi.
20. Kāng uá tsò-pû lâi.
21. Ũ jie̍h-tsōi nâng?
22. Ũ tsa̍p-gūa nâng.
23. Lóng-tsóng ũ la̍k-tsa̍p-nâng.
24. Ũ nôuⁿ-kiáⁿ a-bô?
25. Chí-kâi sĩ ta-pou.
26. Chí-kâi sĩ ta-pou a-sĩ tsṳ-niêⁿ?
27. I sĩ kāng uá tsò-kang.
28. Lṳ́ kâi thâu-ke sĩ sĩ-mih-nâng?
29. I sĩ Tn̂g-nâng.
30. M̄-sĩ lṳ́ tsóu-ke kâi-nâng.
31. I tõ-tî-kò khiã-khí?
32. Lî chí-kò hñg.