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HTB (1)

nar u nar bøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]]: vague; shapeless; intangible; 若有若無

DFT (1)

🗣 nafu-nafbøo 🗣 (u: nar'u-nar'bøo) 若有若無 [wt][mo] ná ū ná bô [#]: 1. (Exp) || 好像有又好像沒有的意思。; 🗣le: (u: Y tuix goar ee karm'zeeng nar u nar bøo, hai goar tvia'tvia sid'biin.) 🗣 (伊對我的感情若有若無，害我定定失眠。) (他對我的感情好像有又好像沒有，害我常常失眠。)
tonggi: ; s'tuix:

DFT_lk (3)

🗣u: nar u nar bøo ⬆︎ 若有若無 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [d#]: 好像有又好像沒有
🗣u: Y tuix goar ee karm'zeeng nar u nar bøo, hai goar tvia'tvia sid'biin. ⬆︎ 伊對我的感情若有若無，害我定定失眠。 [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [d#]: 他對我的感情好像有又好像沒有，害我常常失眠。
🗣u: Cid pae ee siaux'bak kvar'nar bøo sviar tiøh, lie beq køq tuix`cit'pae`bøo? ⬆︎ 這擺的數目敢若無啥著，你欲閣對一擺無？ [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [d#]: 這回的帳目好像不太對，你要不要再核對一次？

Maryknoll (13)

biefnle [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: biern'le ⬆︎ [[...]]

exhort, encourage

勉勵

Cid ee gynnar bøo symmiq aix thagzheq, chviar lie ka y biefnle. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Cid ee girn'nar bøo sirm'miq aix thak'zheq, chviar lie ka y biern'le. ⬆︎ [[...]]
This child doesn't like to study very much, please encourage him.
這個孩子不太喜歡讀書,請你勉勵他。

jiog'iuo jiogbuu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: jiok'iuo jiok'buu; (nar u nar bøo) ⬆︎ [[...]]

vague, shapeless, intangible

若有若無

kaq mxsi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaq m'si ⬆︎ [[...]]

since...not

既不是

Lie kaq mxsi phoarpve, nar bøo aix khix haghau? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie kaq m'si phoax'pve, nar bøo aix khix hak'hau?; Lie kaq m'si phoax'pve/pvi, nar bøo aix khix hak'hau? ⬆︎ [[...]]
Since you are not sick, why don't you want to attend school?
你既不是生病,為何不去學校?

Mih kaq mxsi kea ee, lie khix chviar symmihlaang laai khvoax ia bøo iaokirn. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Mih kaq m'si kea ee, lie khix chviar sirm'miq'laang laai khvoax ia bøo iaux'kirn. ⬆︎ [[...]]
Since the things are not false, it doesn't make any difference whom you ask to look at them.
貨既不是假的,你去請誰來看也沒有關係。

koay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: koay ⬆︎ [[...]]

gentle, obedient (child)

乖

gyn'ar bøo koay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: giar'nar bøo koay; giar'nar bøo koay ⬆︎ [[...]]
naughty child
小孩不乖

karkoay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kax'koay ⬆︎ [[...]]
to tame (by beating)
馴乖

nar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: nar; (axn'zvoar) ⬆︎ [[...]]

interrogative particle (same meaning as "an-choa*"), Why?

為什麼

Lie nar bøo laai? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie nar bøo laai? ⬆︎ [[...]]
Why didn't you come?
你為什麼沒來?

Goar nar tiøh ka lie korng? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Goar nar tiøh ka lie korng? ⬆︎ [[...]]
Why should I tell you?
我為什麼要告訴你 ?

nafu nafbøo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: nar'u nar'bøo ⬆︎ [[...]]

faintly discernible

若有若無

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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)
Maryknoll: 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)
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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.