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28 báh nê-sêk sé ciáh siŏng. Hŏk-sĕng ô niŏh-uâi? Săng-báh nê-sĕk lĕ̤k ciáh.
 * 1) Ô ngô-ciáh nè̤ng-káh lì. Miêng-bău gáu ng gáu?
 * 2) Nè̤ng-gă gó dĭh gūi-cī.
 * 3) Hŏk-sĕng bà̤-bà̤ giàng â̤ sāi dék.
 * 4) Sáu-chīu ciŏng-gì mò̤ diŏh làu-â?

Translate into Chinese:&mdash;


 * 1) How many more people have brought money?
 * 2) Will he do that?
 * 3) One box is not enough.
 * 4) Why will they not go?
 * 5) Mr. Uong is my guest. Where has he gone? He has gone upstairs.
 * 6) Is his boy in our college? No, he is not.
 * 7) Those boys are inattentive.
 * 8) Is not this your son? No, he is the son of my friend. Why is he here? He has come to buy a hymn book.
 * 9) May I make the box this way? Yes.
 * 10) Why does he not go to college? He has no money.
 * 11) Over twenty boys were absent.
 * 12) Please dust upstairs.
 * 13) There are three pastors downstairs. They want to buy books.
 * 14) What books do they want? They want Bibles and Hymn books.

 LESSON VI


 * 真 cĭng: true
 * 假 gā: false
 * 得 dáik: to obtain
 * 的 dék: sign of potential mood
 * 齋 că̤: a school
 * 至 gáu: to arrive
 * 紅 è̤ng: red
 * 長 dòng: long
 * 短 dōi: short
 * 長 diōng: to grow, elder
 * 新 sĭng: new
 * 舊 gô: old
 * 上 siông: above
 * 寫字 siā-cê: to write
 * 中國 Dṳ̆ng-gúok: China
 * 外國 nguôi-guók: foreign countries
 * 看見 káng-giéng: seen
 * 外斗 ngiê-dāu: outside
 * 裏勢 diē-sié: inside
 * 祈禱 gì-dō̤: to pray
 * 菩薩 bù-sák: idols
 * 平正 bàng-ciáng: bad
 * 講話 gōng-ûa: to speak
 * 食飯 siăh buông: to eat (rice)