He is thoroughly at home in the language—intelligible, fluent, and speaks without a particle of Chinese accent, he is quite proficient. Then, besides, he has such a stock of words and phrases. Now, that is what one may call a good scholar, if you please
Senior. How does he compare with you?
Junior. Me! I should never venture to compare myself with him; I am as far from being his match
getuken
intelligible
bime
Ger. (3) of bimbi to be
dacun
quick, fluent
majige
little
nikan
Chinese
mudan
pronunciation
akū
not
umesi
very
urehebi
Indef. Past (10) of urembi to be ripe, proficient
tuttu
thus
bime
Ger. (3) of bimbi to be
šan
ear
geli
further
fe
old, the meaning is: he has heard much old language
tere
he
teni
high, with adverbial affix i
mangga
difficult, qualified
seci
Cond. (6) of sembi to say, to call
ombi
to be
tere
he
sinci
from si thou and ci from, to express the comparative