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Khofngzwkofng mxkvar siw laang ee kehmii-thiab [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

Confucius did not dare accept an invitation for the next day. Tomorrow is very uncertain

孔子公不敢收隔夜帖 (不知未來如何)

kiøx-mxkvar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

give in under coercion; agree won't do it again (Lit. Call out; I'll not do it again; when beaten); asks for mercy; begs for mercy

再也不敢啦; 叫不敢; 討饒

kvar khix mxkvar korng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

angry but not daring to speak out

敢怒不敢言

mxkvar [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

dare not; afraid to; dare no

不敢

mxkvar køphafn [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

I cannot venture to equal you

不敢高攀

mxkvar-mng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

daren't ask; afraid to ask

不敢問

mxkvar-tngf [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] 

dare not assume a responsibility; I am not worthy of it. I am not worth your compliment. I cannot bear such honor

不敢當

DFT (3)

🗣 mxkvar/m kvar 🗣 (u: m kvar) 毋敢 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

不敢 。 心中怯懦 ， 以致於不能付諸行動 。

🗣 kiørmxkvar 🗣 (u: kiøx'm'kvar) 叫毋敢 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

形容因害怕而討饒 。

🗣 Kvar zøx pu'hiaf, tø mxthafng kviaf zuie thngx./Kvar zøex pu'hiaf, tø mxthafng kviaf zuie thngx. 🗣 (u: Kvar zøx puu'hiaf, tø m'thafng kviaf zuie thngx. Kvar zøx/zøex puu'hiaf, tø m'thafng kviaf zuie thngx.) 敢做匏桸，就毋通驚水燙。 [wt][mo] [h] [[m]] [[u]] [d#]

既然做了瓠瓜勺子 ， 就不能怕被滾水燙 。 意指既然承擔了責任就要敢做敢當 ， 不要畏首畏尾 ， 也用來自我表示負責到底的意思 。

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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)

• MK: 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)

• Lim19: 台語辭典(台日大辭典台語譯本)查詢 [Taiwanese Dictionary (translation of Tai—Nichi Dai Jiten) search] (in Taiwanese Hokkien). Sìn Bōng Ài [Faith Hope Love]. 2019. (Lim08 data: GitHub - Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-tian)

• 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.