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LESSON XXV (CONTINUED).
uá àiⁿ | phah | chiũ-phah. |
If I want to | strike | then I will strike. |
ẽ-hûe uá chiũ | phah | i. |
Another time I (will) | strike | him |
thāi uá ôiⁿ, uá lâi | phah | i. |
When I have leisure I will | strike | him. |
Perfect and Pluperfect. | ||
i soiⁿ | phah | uá, jiên-ãu uá phah-i. |
He first | struck | me, and then I struck him. |
lṳ́ būe-chêng-lâi uá | phah | i liáu. |
Before you reached here I had previously | beaten | him. |
uá būe-chêng-tàⁿ, i chiũ soiⁿ | phah | uá. |
Before I had said anything he had first | beaten | me. |
i būe-mn̄g mêng-pe̍h | phah | uá-liáu, chiàⁿ-mn̄g uá. |
Before he had inquired clearly he | beat | me, and then asked me. |
i m̄-jīn, tán-kàu lãu-tia | phah | cha̍p-ē, i chiàⁿ-jîn. |
He would not confess till the mandarin had | struck | him ten blows, —then he confessed. |
Future Perfect. | ||
i būe | phah | uá, uá chiũ soiⁿ-phah--i. |
Before he | strikes | me, I will have struck him. |
ṳ̃ i a-pẽ būe-kàu uá soiⁿ | phah | hó liáu. |
I will arrange that before his father gets here I shall first have | beaten | him. |
Potential Mood. | ||
uá õi tit | phah | i. |
I can | strike | him. |
uá | phah | i tit-kùe. |
I can | strike | him, i.e. I am able to do it. |
uá | phah | i m̄-tie̍h. |
In | striking | him I cannot succeed, i.e. cannot get at him. |
lũn | phah | õi-phah. |
As regards | striking | I can strike. |