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Lesson XI.
- 今日何時
- Kiáⁿ-jít tiang-sî?
- What is to day?
- 今日七月初乙
- Kiáⁿ-jít chhit--guéh chhiu-it
- To-day is the first of the seventh moon.
- 拾乙禮拜
- Tsáp-it lói-pài
- The eleventh (Chinese month) will be Sunday.
- 是或不是
- Sĩ a m̄-sĩ?
- Is it or is it not?
- 我看歷日就知
- Uá thóiⁿ láh-jíh chiũ-tsai
- Let me see the calendar, and I will know it.
- 歷日在此。十二正是禮拜
- Láh-jít tõ--chié, tsáp-jī chiàⁿ-sĩ lói-pài
- Here's the calendar, the twelfth will be Sunday.
- 不是十乙
- M̄-sĩ tsáp-it
- It's not the eleventh.
- 此個月大或是小
- Chí-kâi guéh tuā a-sĩ sié?
- Is this moon long or short?
- 不知
- M̄-tsai
- I don't know.
- 月大就三十。月小就卄九
- Guéh tuā chiũ saⁿ-tsáp, guéh sié chiũ jíh-káu
- In a great moon there will be thirty days, and in a small moon twenty nine.
- 今年有閏月否
- Ke-nîⁿ ũ zūn-guéh mē?
- Is there an intercalary moon this year?
- 有。閏五
- Ũ, zūn-ngõu
- Yes, the fifth intercalary moon.
- 昨夜月蝕爾有看或無
- Tsa-mêⁿ guéh síh lṳ́ ũ thóiⁿ a-bô?
- Last night there was an eclipse of the moon, did you see it?
- 不嘗。我在睡
- M̄-chêng, uá tõ út
- No, I was in bed.
- 昨夜三更蝕
- Tsá-mêⁿ saⁿ-keⁿ síh
- The eclipse took place at the third watch last night.
- 我若是知。我走起来看
- Uá nāⁿ-sĩ tsai, uá tsáu-khí lâi-thóiⁿ
- If I had known, I would have got up to see it.
- 爾昨日無共我呾
- Lṳ́ tsa-jít bô kah uá tàⁿ
- You didn't tell me yesterday.
