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bosefng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: boo'sefng ⬆︎ [[...]]

plan to make a living, consider how to make a livelihood

謀生

zhutgoa bosefng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zhud'goa boo'sefng ⬆︎ [[...]]
go out to make a living
出外謀生

Nilau bøo hoatto thafng bosefng. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Nii'lau bøo hoad'to thafng boo'sefng. ⬆︎ [[...]]
When you are old, you can't make a living.
年老無法謀生。

lauxsefng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: lau'sefng ⬆︎ [[...]]

role of the old man in Chinese opera

老生

u [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: u; (iuo) ⬆︎ [[...]]

have, there is (are), "Yes," in answering such questions as "Have you?" "Is there?", sometimes also used somewhat like an auxiliary of the past tense. Used to express habitual action

有

U cioxnggoaan hagsefng, bøo cioxnggoaan lauxsw. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: U ciong'goaan hak'sefng, bøo ciong'goaan lau'sw. ⬆︎ [[...]]
The student surpasses the teacher.
有狀元學生,無狀元老師(青出於藍而勝於藍)

cy'u [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: cie'u ⬆︎ [[...]]
there is (are) only...
只有

iawu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: iao'u ⬆︎ [[...]]
there is still more, there are still..., there is more yet, have more.
還有

korng uxee bø'ee [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: korng u'ee bøo'ee ⬆︎ [[...]]
talking at random, useless talk
說廢話

na u [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: na'u ⬆︎ [[...]]
if there be
假使有

thøfu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: thør'u ⬆︎ [[...]]
succeed in getting by asking for
要到了

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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)
Lim08: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten (TDJ)) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2008. We make updates and corrections, and refer to Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢2019 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of TDJ) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019.
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.