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Htb (cache) (15) thaau-10-zoa:

høe-mxsi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

to offer an apology

賠不是

kaq mxsi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

since...not

既不是

karm mxsi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

how can it be otherwise (surely it is)

難道不是; 感不是

mxsi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

no; is not; no; it is not

不是; 不是

mxsi sex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

is not a safe affair; Things are beginning to look bad

不對勁

mxsi-khafng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

it's no joke

不是空; 一是味兒; 不是玩兒的

mxsi-khoarn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

unreasonable; shocking; outrageous

不是款; 不像話

mxsi-laang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

a beast; not a person

人面獸心; 不是人

mxsi-mih [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

useless person

不成器之人

mxsi-sex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

not the right flavor; not quite right; a bit off; fishy; queer; amiss; feel bad; be upset

不是勢; 不是味兒

DFT (5)

🗣 karm-mxsi/karm-mxsi? 🗣 (u: karm-m'si) 敢毋是 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

難道不是嗎 ？ 可不是嗎 ？

🗣 mxsi/m si 🗣 (u: m si) 毋是 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不是 。

🗣 mxsixkhoarn 🗣 (u: m'si'khoarn) 毋是款 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不像話 。 不懂禮教 ， 多指吃東西的習慣或行為不好 。

🗣 mxsixsex 🗣 (u: m'si'sex) 毋是勢 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不對勁 。

🗣 Si m si, me ka'ki./Si m si, ma ka'ki. 🗣 (u: Si m si, me/ma kaf'ki.) 是毋是，罵家己。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

對不對 ， 先罵自己 。 人與人相處難免會有衝突 ， 遇到事情先檢討自己 。

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Taiwanese Dictionaries – Sources

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

• 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), Maryknoll (2001), and other dictionaries.

• 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.