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høpid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: høo'pid [[...]][i#] [p.]

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

何必?

nafsae [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: nar'sae [[...]][i#] [p.]

why must..., there is no need...

何需

• Cidsielaang kaq loa kuo, nafsae hiahnih keakaux. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Cit'six'laang kaq loa kuo, nar'sae hiaq'nih kex'kaux. [[...]][i#] [p.]
  Life is short, why fight over things? Why dispute over things?
  一生很短,何必那麼計較?

naftiøh... [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: nar'tiøh... [[...]][i#] [p.]

why must..., there is no need...

何必要 ...

ng'ngf iap'iab [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: ngf'ngf'iab'iab; ngf'ngf iab'iab [[...]][i#] [p.]

furtively, stealthily, surreptitiously (to do something in this manner)

偷偷摸摸

• Tviaxtvia khvoax y ng'ng'iap'iab mxzay lorng iab symmiq? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Tvia'tvia khvoax y ngf'ngf'iab'iab m'zay lorng iab sirm'miq? [[...]][i#] [p.]
  He always acts so furtively, I wonder what he is hiding?
  常常看他偷偷摸摸,不知在藏什麼?

• Zef si zerngtofng ee taixcix, nar tiøh ng'ng'iap'iab? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zef si zexng'tofng ee tai'cix, nar tiøh ngf'ngf'iab'iab? [[...]][i#] [p.]
  What we are doing is legal, why are you so secretive?
  這是正當的事情,何必偷偷摸摸?

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

necessary, requisite, certainly, surely, be certain, be necessary, must, an emphatic particle

必

• bixpid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: bi'pid [[...]][i#] [p.]
  I think it is not so.
  未必

• høpid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: høo'pid [[...]][i#] [p.]
  What is the necessity?
  何必

• putpid [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: pud'pid [[...]][i#] [p.]
  not necessarily, need not
  不必

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