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 * 第 dâ̤: series, order
 * 事 sê̤ṳ: business, deeds
 * 代計 dâi-gié: business
 * 唱 chióng: to sing
 * 零 lìng: a fragment, fraction
 * 查 cǎcă [sic]: to search
 * 欲 ó̤i: to want
 * 㑚 nâ: only, if, but
 * 買 mā̤: to buy
 * 賣 mâ̤: to sell
 * 千 chiĕng: thousand
 * 萬 uâng: myriad, ten thousand
 * 緣故 iòng-gó: reason
 * 一首讚美詩 siŏh-siū cáng-mī sĭ: a hymn
 * 做 có̤: to make, do
 * 去 kó̤: to go
 * 來 lì: to come
 * 正是 ciáng-sê: Yes!
 * 伓是 ng sê: no! it is not
 * 就是 cêu-sê: namely, that is
 * 做厨 có̤-diò: cook
 * 生意 sĕng-é, [sic] 生理 sĕng-lī: trade, business
 * 一頭驢 siŏh-tàu lè̤: a donkey
 * 一塊石頭 siŏh-dó̤i siŏh-tàu: a lump of stone
 * 一張勸世文 siŏh-tiŏng kuóng-sié-ùng: a tract
 * 一位上帝 Siŏh-ôi Siông-Dá̤: one God
 * 鬼 gūi: devils

The Numerals

1. The numerals from ten to twenty place the tens first and the units after, as 十一 sĕk ék eleven, 十九 sĕk gāu nineteen.

2. The ordinal numbers are formed by prefixing 第 dâ̤ to the cardinal numerals, 第五 dâ̤ ngô the fifth, 第三 dâ̤ săng the third. In the case of “one” and “two” the secondary forms ék and nê are used for “first” and “second”. Ék and nê are also used in the numbers eleven and twelve. Eleven 十一 sĕk ék, twelve 十二 sĕk nê.

They are also used in the “tens” as follows:—Twenty-one nê sĕk êk, thirty-two săng sĕk nê, one hundred, however, is 一百 siŏh báh, a thousand is 一千 siŏh chiĕng, and ten thousand, or a myriad is 一萬 siŏh uâng. 頭 Tàu head, is