Elementary Lessons In The Swatow Dialect/Lesson 5

by J. C. G.

LESSON V.—General.

1. What does he say?
2. He says he has no money.
3. Give him a little.
4. Can you read?
5. I can’t read.
6. Request the teacher to come.
7. What is your honourable name?
8. (To an inferior.) What is your name?
9. Can you talk Chinese?
10. I can.
11. I am a Chinaman.
12. He is an Englishman.
13. You are not a native of the place.
14. He is a man from Swatow.
15. There are plenty of Chinamen at Singapore.
16. Do you like this place? (lit. is it good?)
17. Do you like being here?
18. I do (like it).
19. Tell him to go back.
20. Seize this man.
21. Has he been doing anything wrong?
22. He is a thief.
23. What has he stolen?
24. He has stolen nothing just now.
25. Has he struck anybody?
26. He has; he’s a dangerous man.
27. He has been doing something wrong.
28. He ought to be punished.
29. Take him to prison for a fortnight.
30. Afterwards give him twenty blows.
31. When he has been beaten, let him go.
32. Warn him not to get into trouble (again).

1. I tàⁿ sĩ-mih-ūe?
2. I tàⁿ i bô-chîⁿ.
3. Pun i lân-ló.
4. Lṳ́ pat-jī a m̄-pat?
5. Uá m̄-pat-jī.
6. Chhiáⁿ sin-seⁿ--lâi.
7. Kùi-sèⁿ?
8. Lṳ́ sèⁿ mih-kâi?
9. Lṳ́ pat-tàⁿ Tn̂g-nâng-ūe--mé?
10. Pat.
11. Uá sĩ Tn̂g-nâng.
12. I sĩ Eng-kok kâi-nâng.
13. Lṳ́ m̄-sì pńg-tī-nâng.
14. I sĩ Sùaⁿ-thâu--lâi kâi-nâng.
15. Si̍t-la̍t ũ tsōi-tsōi Tn̂g-nâng.
16. Chí-kâi tī-hng hó m̄-hó?
17. Lṳ́ tõ chí-kò huaⁿ-hí--mé?
18. Huaⁿ-hí.
19. Hàm-i tńg--khṳ̀.
20. Lia̍h chí-kâi-nâng.
21. I ũ-tsò m̄-hó kâi-sṳ̄ a-bô?
22. I sĩ tsha̍t.
23. Ũ thau-khie̍h sĩ-mih-mue̍h?
24. Chí-tsûn bô thau-khie̍h sĩ-mih-mue̍h.
25. Ũ phah-nâng a-bô?
26. Ũ; i sĩ lì-hāi kâi nâng.
27. I ũ-tsũe.
28. Eng-kai phōiⁿ i kâi-tsũe.
29. Lia̍h i khṳ̀-kìm tsa̍p-sì-ji̍t.
30. Aũ-lâi phah-i jī-tsa̍p-ē.
31. Phah-liáu pàng i khṳ̀.
32. Kéng-kài i; hàm i màiⁿ zũan-tsò.