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Htb (cache) (3)

axsae [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

reasoning to have

也使; 何必; 何須; 怎麼需要

høpid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

why; Why should... ? Why must...? Why is it necessary that...?

何必

nafsae [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]

there is no need; why should; why must...; there is no need...

那使; 何必; 何需

DFT (5)

ah/iah 🗣 (u: ah iah) 曷^t [wt][mo] [h] (h,u) [d#]

1. (Adv) (in rhetorical questions) why; why on earth (i.e. there is no need); why bother 2. (Adv) used for emphasis (still)

何必 、 何須 、 哪 。 反問語 ， 表示疑問 。 表示強調的語氣 。

aqsae/iaqsae 🗣 (u: ah'sae iah'sae) 曷使 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

何須 、 何必 。 那裡需要 ， 反問語氣 ， 表示沒有必要 。

aqtiøh/iaqtiøh 🗣 (u: ah'tiøh iah'tiøh) 曷著 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

何須 、 何必 。 哪裡需要 。 反問語氣 ， 表示沒有必要 。

høkhor 🗣 (u: høo'khor) 何苦 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

何必 。 有不值得的意思 。

høpid 🗣 (u: høo'pid) 何必 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

為何一定要 … … 。

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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.