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zaixsex [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'sex (zai'svef) [[...]][i#] [p.]

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

在世,在生

• Iao zaixsex ee sii [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Iao zai'sex ee sii [[...]][i#] [p.]
  during a person's lifetime, while one lives
  還在世時

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。

svef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef (svy, sefng) [[...]][i#] [p.]

live, life, living, alive, be born, come into being, to breed, to bear, beget, produce, to cause, to have (as boils)

生

• bexsvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: be'svef bøe'svef [[...]][i#] [p.]
  barren, does not bear fruit
  不孕,不結果實

• zaixsvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zai'svef [[...]][i#] [p.]
  while alive, while in the life
  在世

• hauxsvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hau'svef [[...]][i#] [p.]
  son
  兒子

• siangsve'ar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: siafng'svef'ar [[...]][i#] [p.]
  twins
  雙胞胎

• theksvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: theg'svef [[...]][i#] [p.]
  beast, You brute!
  畜生

• tøsvef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: tøo'svef [[...]][i#] [p.]
  escape from being killed, escape with one's life
  逃生

sve'hun sofzai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: svef'hun sor'zai [[...]][i#] [p.]

unfamiliar place, strange place

陌生地方

sengcieen [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: sefng'cieen (zai'svef) [[...]][i#] [p.]

during one's lifetime, before one's death

生前,在世

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