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engkay [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: efng'kay; (exng'kay) ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

ought, ought to be

應該

Lie engkay (tiøh) afnny zøx. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie efng'kay (tiøh) arn'ny zøx. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
You must do it this way
你應該這樣做.

Huiky na kawtiarm khypoef, cymmar erngkay kaux ciaf af. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Huy'ky na kao'tiarm khie'poef, cirm'mar exng'kay kaux ciaf af. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
The plane ought to be here by now, if it took off at nine. (Note: "eng-kai" and "tioh" mean the same thing, but "tioh" is used for emphasis.)
飛機要是九點起飛, 現在應該到這兒了.

Engkay! [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Efng'kay!; (Exng'kay!) ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Serve you right! I told you so ! (As when a mischievous child falls down).
應該! 應該!

kaesiu [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaix'siu ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

May you have long life!

介壽

kaesiuxciuo [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaix'siu'ciuo ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
wine sold on the birthday of the president, Chang-kai-sek
介壽酒

khorngle [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khoxng'le ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

pair, husband and wife (a polite expression)

伉儷

Cviuo Zofngthorng khorngle. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Cviuo Zorng'thorng khoxng'le. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
President and Madam Chiang-kai-sek.
蔣總統伉儷

thichiøx kai'huy [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: thii'chiøx kay'huy ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

between tears and laughter, unable to cry or laugh

啼笑皆非

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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.