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Htb (cache) (4)

bønaixhøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

act against one's will; have no alternative but; can not help but

無奈何; 不得已

bøtatit'oaa [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

cannot help it; no other recourse

無奈何; 不得已

kopud-jiciofng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

to have to; must

不得已

pektiøh [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

be compelled or forced to; couldn't help but; have no alternative

不得已

DFT (5)

bønai 🗣 (u: bøo'nai) 無奈 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不得已 、 無可奈何 、 沒有辦法 。

bøta'oaa 🗣 (u: bøo'taf'oaa) 無奈何 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

無可奈何 、 不得已 。

bukhøfnaixhøo 🗣 (u: buu'khør'nai'høo) 無可奈何 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不得已 、 沒有辦法怎麼樣 。

ko'putjiciofng 🗣 (u: kof'pud'jii'ciofng) 姑不而將 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不得已 、 無可奈何 。

puttek'ie/puttit'ie 🗣 (u: pud'teg'ie pud'tid'ie) 不得已 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

無可奈何 、 不得不如此 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

• HTB: "Hiexntai-buun" Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Modern Taiwanese Language Association.

• DFT: 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2011. (CC BY-ND 3.0 臺灣) (data from MoeDict Desktop For MacOSX / Linux / Windows. 2015. see MoeDict and Taioaan Wiki). We have annotated over 5800 definitions in English for monosyllables (enter any monosyllable to get into monosyllable mode)

• MK: Taiwanese—English Dictionary (in Taiwanese Hokkien, English and Chinese). Maryknoll Language Service Center, Taichung, Taiwan. 2001 [1976]. (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 TW)

• TC/TH: Iûⁿ Ún-giân. 台語文/中文辭典 Taiwanese — Chinese Dictionary & 台文/華文線頂辭典 [Taihoa Online Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Chinese).

• EDUTECH: Liim Keahioong (2001-2003). EDUTECH: Taiwanese—English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling. Edited and cross-referenced to EDUTECH General Taiwanese Words (正確台語拼字辭和漢字辭), Embree (1973), and Maryknoll (2001).

• Embree: Embree, Bernard L. M. (1973). A Dictionary of Southern Min: based on current usage in Taiwan and checked against the earlier works of Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, and Ernest Tipson. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute. (OCLC 2491446. Data from GitHub - ChhoeTaigiDatabase. See NY Times article)

• Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019. (Lim08 data: GitHub - Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-tian)

• TDJ: Ogawa Naoyoshi, ed. (1931, 1932). 臺日大辭典 Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten [Taiwanese—Japanese Dictionary] (in Taiwanese Hokkien and Japanese). Volume 1 & Volume 2. Taihoku: Governor-General of Taiwan.