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HTB (1)

mxsi-laang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] [[...]] [p.]: a beast; not a person; 人面獸心; 不是人

Maryknoll (14)

zerngkefng [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: zexng'kefng ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

honest, virtuous, correct morality, in earnest

正經

khaq zerngkefng lex. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: khaq zexng'kefng lex. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Be more serious.
正經點兒!

mxsi zerngkefng ee laang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: m'si zexng'kefng ee laang ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
not an honest respectable person
不是正經的人

in'ieen [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: yn'ieen ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

fate or influence which brings lovers together

姻緣

hør in'ieen [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: hør yn'ieen ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
good match
好姻緣

In'ieen thvy zuotvia. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Yn'ieen thvy zux'tvia. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Matches are ordained by God.
姻緣天註定

In'ieen thvy zuotvia, mxsi moelaang khaf gaau kviaa. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Yn'ieen thvy zux'tvia, m'si moee'laang khaf gaau kviaa. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Marriage are made in heaven, not by the match maker's efforts.
姻緣天註定不是媒人一線牽。

iuthaau katbin [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: iw'thaau kad'bin ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

have worried look, pull long face, having a displeased look

愁眉苦臉

Tviaxtvia iuthaau katbin ee laang, itteng mxsi khoaelok ee. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Tvia'tvia iw'thaau kad'bin ee laang, id'teng m'si khoaix'lok ee. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
People who always have long faces definitely are not happy.
常常愁眉苦臉的人,一定不快樂。

kaq mxsi [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: kaq m'si ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

since...not

既不是

Lie kaq mxsi phoarpve, nar bøo aix khix haghau? [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Lie kaq m'si phoax'pve, nar bøo aix khix hak'hau?; Lie kaq m'si phoax'pve/pvi, nar bøo aix khix hak'hau? ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Since you are not sick, why don't you want to attend school?
你既不是生病,為何不去學校?

Mih kaq mxsi kea ee, lie khix chviar symmihlaang laai khvoax ia bøo iaokirn. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Mih kaq m'si kea ee, lie khix chviar sirm'miq'laang laai khvoax ia bøo iaux'kirn. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
Since the things are not false, it doesn't make any difference whom you ask to look at them.
貨既不是假的,你去請誰來看也沒有關係。

mxsi-laang [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: m'si'laang; m'si-laang ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]

inhuman

不是人

Y mxsixlaang. Y cyn mxsixlaang. [wt] [HTB] [wiki] u: Y m'si'laang. Y cyn m'si'laang. ⬆︎ [[...]] [p.]
He is inhuman. He is very brutal.
他不是人。他真不是人。

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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.