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402 ; thàng nî;
 * throughout the year.


 * pùaⁿ nî;
 * half a year.


 * ciu nî;
 * all the year round.


 * kuè nî;
 * to pass from one year to the next; the last day of the year.


 * sin nî;
 * the new year.


 * pài nî;
 * pay the compliments of the season; make New Year's calls.


 * ke nî;
 * older; added years.


 * cíe nî;
 * younger; fewer years.


 * ìuⁿ nî;
 * in youth.


 * nî-hùe cíⁿ-cíⁿ;
 * is very youthful.


 * nî-hùe sek;
 * of mature age.


 * sì nî, nî bō̤, saⁿ nî, tn̂g nî;
 * four years in dates makes three full years in time.


 * i khṳ̀ cêk kò̤ cū khṳ̀ kàu cêk nî kú!
 * To go anywhere takes him a year!


 * cêk nî kùe cêk nî;
 * year after year.


 * nî thâu;
 * early in the year.


 * nî búe;
 * the end of the year.


 * nî tói;
 * in the middle of the year.


 * nî lăi;
 * before the close of the year.


 * kàu nî piⁿ-piⁿ cìaⁿ kàu;
 * arrived just at the close of the year.


 * nî tn̂g gûeh kú kâi sṳ̄;
 * a matter requiring time.


 * nî-nî; pâi nî; múeⁿ nî;
 * every year.


 * cêk nî cêk nî;
 * year by year.


 * pha kùe nî;
 * after New Year.


 * làng nî làng nî;
 * in alternate years.


 * keh nî;
 * intervening years.


 * keh ke nŏ nî;
 * after an interval of two years.


 * kàu taⁿ bói ŭ jîeh cŏi nî kú?
 * How many years is it since you bought it?


 * nî-coih sàng lói-mûeh;
 * make presents during the holidays.


 * cêk jît tǹg cêk nî;
 * a day seems as long as a year.


 * tō jît jû nî;
 * the days are like years in passing.


 * thâu nî lâi;
 * the first year after I came.


 * kàu búe nî;
 * during the last year that I was there.


 * tâng nî kuaⁿ;
 * magistrates who have entered upon office in the same year.


 * tâng nî hiaⁿ tĭ;
 * men born in the same year.


 * thiⁿ nî hó̤;
 * a prosperous year.


 * thiⁿ nî cho-siap;
 * an unfortunate year.


 * nî-chéng hó̤, nî-chêng mó̤;
 * a good or bad year for business.


 * kàu tĭ nî cìaⁿ cò̤ tit hó̤?
 * When will prosperous times return?


 * hṳ́ nî sĭ sĭm-mih nî koi?
 * What year was that?


 * cì cêk nî úa bô̤ khṳ̀;
 * I have not been there for a year.


 * nî hó̤, nî mó̤;
 * a favorable or unfavorable year.


 * bw̄n nî;
 * forever, perpetual.


 * cò̤ nî;
 * perform the New Year rites.


 * ieh tŏ̤ tī cêk kâi nî-khî;
 * limit the time to a certain year.


 * nî-kha sî;
 * toward the end of the year.


 * ciaⁿ nî kú;
 * about a year.


 * m̄ khéng cêk nî;
 * not so short a period as a year.


 * nî gūa;
 * over a year.


 * m̄ cīeⁿ nî;
 * not a full year.


 * nî chun cē;
 * a little over a year.


 * nî khio;
 * little more than a year.


 * khui nî;
 * the opening year.


 * hīn-khek nî-cong sùe mŏ̤ⁿ lío;
 * it is the last evening of the present year.


 * kàu mńg nî cìaⁿ tit cú;
 * when in the evening of life, had a son.


 * i kâi nî-sìo kai-cong;
 * he has attained a good old age.


 * chia lío kâi cîⁿ ŭ nî bô̤ gûeh;
 * when he has once got a thing on credit he does not pay till the end of the year.


 * úang nî to sĭ cìeⁿ-seⁿ;
 * it has always been so in past years.


 * lêh nî, bô̤ ko̤i ieⁿ;
 * for successive years there has been no variation.


 * saⁿ nî kuaⁿ nŏ̤ nî múa;
 * an appointment for three years is often fulfilled in two.


 * soiⁿ bói cêk-ē nî-līo pàng-kò̤;
 * purchase and lay up beforehand the provisions required for a year.


 * cí sù nî bô̤ nâng lâi;
 * no one has come from there these many years.


 * ki-hng nî ;
 * years of dearth.


 * hong nî;
 * years of plenty.


 * jūn nî;
 * a year having thirteen months.


 * saⁿ nî cêk jūn, ngŏ nî cài jūn;
 * in every five years there are two years having thirteen mouths.


 * ho̤h cōi nî;
 * many years.


 * i khṳ̀ lío bô̤ nî bô̤ gûeh;
 * since he went nothing has been heard from him.


 * kim nî hwn-cṳ̂ m̄ pí kū nî ō;
 * the potatoes of the present year are not to be compared with the taro of last year.


 * nî siaⁿ; nî sìo; nî khî;
 * set times in the year.


 * nî sīu;
 * the ridge of the nose, from the point to the bridge, a portion of the face considered by fortune-tellers.


 * hêng nî hông coih ŭ tńg lâi a bô̤?
 * Does he return at the recurrence of the annual festivals?


 * bô̤ ŭa nî;
 * not many years.


 * cêk nî cêk hùe tîeh cai hâk-sîp;
 * each year one is a year older, and should have learned something more.


 * lîen nî;
 * through a series of years.


 * ku-ā nî sie lîen lóng-cóng ŏi;
 * for several years in succession this happened in each year.


 * peh nî hâi láu;
 * may you live harmoniously together a hundred years; I wish you a century of conjugal bliss.


 * tŏ̤ seⁿ lâng pó̤ peh hùe sīu;
 * it is difficult to secure a hundred years of life in this world.


 * sí ău lâng pó̤ peh nî phûn;
 * and difficult to ensure the preservation of one's grave for a hundred years after his death.


 * àiⁿ cîah àiⁿ chēng īu àiⁿ nî àiⁿ coih, kang-khó căi;
 * what with food and clothing and the annual festivals, it is very hard to make both ends meet.


 * nî chim, jît kú;
 * long years ago.


 * nî koi;
 * the year of the cycle.


 * khṳ̀ kàu saⁿ nî kú;
 * went there three years ago.


 * kàu taⁿ ŭ chit nî kú;
 * it is now seven years since.


 * cá nî;
 * in former times.


 * pât nî;
 * another year.


 * i lâi sàng nî lói;
 * he brings new year's presents.


 * lêk nî cìn-kòng;
 * annual tribute.


 * tī nî?
 * What year was it?


 * kah nî lâi, píaⁿ nî khṳ̀;
 * came in the first year of the cycle, and went in the third.


 * pâi-múaⁿ nî ŭ mē?
 * Is it so every year?


 * The breast; milk.
 * i tó̤ kio nâng chī nĭ;
 * she is a wet nurse.
 * she is a wet nurse.


 * a nôⁿ tó̤ cîah nĭ;
 * the baby is nursing.


 * cang sĭm mûeh lâi cîah khṳt i ŭ nĭ?
 * What can she eat to produce milk?


 * a-nôⁿ cêng keh nĭ a būe?
 * Is the child weaned yet?


 * gû-nĭ ;
 * cow's milk.


 * cuh nĭ;
 * suck at the breast.


 * līu nĭ;
 * to milk.