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bøkef bøkiarm [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: bøo'kef bøo'kiarm ⬆︎ [[...]]

neither too much nor too little, nothing added nothing taken away, no more, no less

不多不少

Bøkef bøkiarm, twtuo hør. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Bøo'kef bøo'kiarm, tuo'tuo hør. ⬆︎ [[...]]
not too little, not too much, just right
不多不少,恰恰好。

ke'kiarm [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kef'kiarm ⬆︎ [[...]]

either much or a little, more or less, as much as possible

多少,盡量

Lie ke'kiarm tekkhag u thauciah. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie kef'kiarm teg'khag u thaw'ciah. ⬆︎ [[...]]
I know that you have stolen something to eat, I don't know whether it was a lot or a little.
你多少一定有偷吃。

Y na u eeng ee sii ke'kiarm khuxn. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Y na u eeng ee sii kef'kiarm khuxn. ⬆︎ [[...]]
Whenever he is free, he sleeps as long as he can.
他要是一有空就盡量睡。

Lie tiøh ke'kiarm ciah taxmpøqar. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie tiøh kef'kiarm ciah tam'pøh'ar. ⬆︎ [[...]]
You must eat as much as you can (to a sick person)
你多少得吃一點。

ke'kiarm korng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kef'kiarm korng ⬆︎ [[...]]
talk as much as possible, talk at random
盡量講,隨便講

kiar'mih øe kiarm, kiaroe øe kef [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kiax'mih e kiarm, kiax'oe e kef; kiax'mih øe kiarm, kiax'oe øe kef ⬆︎ [[...]]

Entrust things to others and you lose a little. Entrust words to others and they are added to

托物會少,寄言會增

u kef bøo kiarm [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: u kef bøo kiarm ⬆︎ [[...]]

increase steadily, get steadily worse or serious

有增無減

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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)
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