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 ; 今日何時
 * Kiáⁿ-jít tiang-sî?
 * What is to day?


 * 今日七月初乙
 * Kiáⁿ-jít chhit--guéh chhiu-it
 * To-day is the first of the seventh moon.


 * 拾乙禮拜
 * Tsáp-it lói-pài
 * The eleventh (Chinese month) will be Sunday.


 * 是或不是
 * Sĩ a m̄-sĩ?
 * Is it or is it not?


 * 我看歷日就知
 * Uá thóiⁿ láh-jíh chiũ-tsai
 * Let me see the calendar, and I will know it.


 * 歷日在此. 十二正是禮拜
 * Láh-jít tõ--chié, tsáp-jī chiàⁿ-sĩ lói-pài
 * Here's the calendar, the twelfth will be Sunday.


 * 不是十乙
 * M̄-sĩ tsáp-it
 * It's not the eleventh.


 * 此個月大或是小
 * Chí-kâi guéh tuā a-sĩ sié?
 * Is this moon long or short?


 * 不知
 * M̄-tsai
 * I don't know.


 * 月大就三十. 月小就卄九
 * Guéh tuā chiũ saⁿ-tsáp, guéh sié chiũ jíh-káu
 * In a great moon there will be thirty days, and in a small moon twenty nine.


 * 今年有閏月否
 * Ke-nîⁿ ũ zūn-guéh mē?
 * Is there an intercalary moon this year?


 * 有. 閏五
 * Ũ, zūn-ngõu
 * Yes, the fifth intercalary moon.


 * 昨夜月蝕爾有看或無
 * Tsa-mêⁿ guéh síh lṳ́ ũ thóiⁿ a-bô?
 * Last night there was an eclipse of the moon, did you see it?


 * 不嘗. 我在睡
 * M̄-chêng, uá tõ út
 * No, I was in bed.


 * 昨夜三更蝕
 * Tsá-mêⁿ saⁿ-keⁿ síh
 * The eclipse took place at the third watch last night.


 * 我若是知. 我走起来看
 * Uá nāⁿ-sĩ tsai, uá tsáu-khí lâi-thóiⁿ
 * If I had known, I would have got up to see it.


 * 爾昨日無共我呾
 * Lṳ́ tsa-jít bô kah uá tàⁿ
 * You didn't tell me yesterday.