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zaixsvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'svef [[...]][i#] [p.]

be among the living, be living, be in the world, not dead

在世

• Zaixsvef ciah cit liap tau, khahhør syau haux ti'thaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zai'svef ciah cit liap tau, khaq'hør sie'au haux ty'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  It's better to take care of parents while they are alive rather than make a show of being filial at their funeral. (Lit. Better to give parents one bean when living rather than to offer them a pig's head after they die.)
  在生吃一粒豆,勝過死後孝豬頭。父母在世時好好孝敬,比在身後才大事祭拜有意義。

• Zaixsvef m haux na'aau, syau ciaq haux kvoazha'thaau. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zai'svef m haux naa'aau, sie'au ciaq haux kvoaf'zhaa'thaau. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  to pay respect to parents after they die after not taking care of them while they were living, unfilial
  父母在生不養,死後才想孝敬。

liao [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: liao [[...]][i#] [p.]

finished, concluded, after, to finish, to complete, understand, a particle at the end of phrase or sentence indicating "finished"

了

• ciah-liao [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ciah'liao ciah-liao [[...]][i#] [p.]
  eat up the whole
  吃光

• koealiawtai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: koex'liao'tai [[...]][i#] [p.]
  old affairs that are quite past and should not be brought up again
  已過的事

• syliawau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sie'liao'au [[...]][i#] [p.]
  after death
  死後

• sie-liawliao [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sie'liao'liao sie-liao'liao [[...]][i#] [p.]
  all dead
  死光光

svezeeng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef'zeeng [[...]][i#] [p.]

during one's lifetime, before one's death, while one was alive

生前

• svezeeng syau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef'zeeng sie'au [[...]][i#] [p.]
  during life and after death
  生前死後

syau [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sie'au [[...]][i#] [p.]

after death

死後

syliao [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sie'liao (sie'liao'au) [[...]][i#] [p.]

after death

死後

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