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Rh Short sentences.


 * chí-ki-to,
 * this knife.


 * hṳ́-ki tê-sî,
 * that tea-spoon.


 * hṳ́ nõ-ki-pit,
 * those two pencils.


 * chí-hue hó,
 * these are good.


 * hṳ́-hue bô-nâng-àiⁿ,
 * those nobody wants.


 * chí-iēⁿ chōi,
 * of this kind are many.


 * chí-iēⁿ chié,
 * of that kind are few.


 * chí-hō-mue̍h oh-chhūe,
 * this sort of thing is hard to find.


 * chiá sĩ,
 * this is it.


 * hiá m̄-sĩ,
 * that is not it.


 * pa̍t-hō bô,
 * any other kind (have) not (got).


 * pa̍t-iēⁿ ũ,
 * (we) have other kinds.


 * pa̍t-mue̍h bô-ēng,
 * any other kind (is) of no use.


 * lú só-siẽⁿ,
 * what you think.


 * lṳ́ só-khie̍h--kâi,
 * the one which you brought.


 * lṳ́ só-tàⁿ kâi-ūe,
 * the words which you said.


 * i tàⁿ, sĩ-i só-chai--kâi,
 * what he says is what he knows.


 * m̄-chai tî-nâng,
 * don’t know which man.


 * m̄-chai tî-sî,
 * don’t know what time, i.e. when.


 * m̄-hiáu mih-sṳ̄,
 * does not understand anything.


 * bô-mih-sṳ̄,
 * no business whatever; no matter.


 * put-lũn mih-sṳ̄,
 * no matter whatsoever business.


 * bô-mih-ôiⁿ,
 * no leisure whatever.


 * mih-mue̍h tou-hó,
 * anything whatever will do.


 * huãm-nâng-lâi,
 * whosoever comes.


 * huãm-nâng-tõ,
 *  (is) here.


 * huãm-nâng-àiⁿ,
 *  wants it.


 * huãm-nâng-bói,
 *  buys.


 * huãm-nâng-khie̍h,
 *  brings.


 * huãm sĩ-mih-nâng,
 * what man soever.


 * bô-pa̍t-nâng,
 * no other person.


 * bô-tî-tiàng,
 * nobody.


 * chṳ̃-sĩ kâi-nâng,
 * a self-sufficient man.


 * chṳ̃-lâi-húe,
 * self-producing fire (matches).


 * ka-kī chṳ̃-ũ--kâi,
 * something that exists of itself, i.e. natural.


 * bô-sĩ-mih pa̍t-nâng,
 * no other man whatever.


 * bô pa̍t-mih-kâi,
 * nothing else whatever.