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Maryknoll (16)

køesae [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kef'sae; køef'sae ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

chicken dung

雞糞

Y mxbad laai svy kenng, lorng laai paxng kesae. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Y m'bad laai svy kef'nng, lorng laai paxng kef'sae. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
He has never been here to lay an egg, whenever he comes, he leaves chicken droppings. — He is a troublesome person.
他成事不足,敗事有餘。

khvoarkvix [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khvoax'kvix ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

see, perceive by sight, happen to see, to see without the pre-determined purpose or intention of looking at, have the faculty or power of seeing

看見,看到,見過

Lie u khvoarkvix kin'afjit ee pørzoar `bøo? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie u khvoax'kvix kyn'ar'jit ee pøx'zoar `bøo? ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Did you see today's paper? (Did you know where it is?)
你有沒有看到今天的報紙?

Lie u khvoax kin'afjit ee pørzoar `bøo? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie u khvoax kyn'ar'jit ee pøx'zoar `bøo? ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Did you look at (read) today's paper yet?
今天的報紙你看了嗎?

Goar mxbad khvoarkvix. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Goar m'bad khvoax'kvix. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
I have never seen that.
我沒見過。

Lie bad khvoarkvix hor `bøo? Na iao mxbad, larn laikhix khvoax. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie bad khvoax'kvix hor `bøo? Na iao m'bad, larn laai'khix khvoax. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Have you ever seen a tiger? If you have not, let's go and take a look.
你見過老虎嗎? 要是沒有,我們去看

Zhvemee`ee bøo khvoarkvix. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Zhvef'mee`ee bøo khvoax'kvix.; Zhvef/Chvy'mee`ee bøo khvoax'kvix. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
A blind man cannot see. (does not have the faculty of seeing)
瞎子沒看見。

Goar khix svoaterng ee sii, u khvoarkvix goanzuxbiin. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Goar khix svoaf'terng ee sii, u khvoax'kvix goaan'zu'biin. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
When I went up to the mountains, I saw the Aborigines.
我去山上的時候,看到了原住民。

kinpurn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kyn'purn ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

root, origin, basis (followed by a negative means "entirely not" or "(not) at all")

根本

kinpurn m zaiviar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kyn'purn m zay'viar ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
don't know at all
根本不知道道

Y kinpurn mxbad laai kaux ciaf. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Y kyn'purn m'bad laai kaux ciaf. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
He has never been here at all.
他根本沒來到這兒。

mxbad (toxngsuu) [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: m'bad (toxngsuu) ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

have no experience of..., have never...

沒有 ...過

mxbad laai [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: m'bad laai ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
have never been here
沒有來過

mxbad ciah [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: m'bad ciah ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
have never eaten …
沒有吃過

mxbad thak [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: m'bad thak; (m'bad thak-tiøh) ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
have never read it
沒有讀過

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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.