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Rh Conjunctions.


 * — íⁿ-ki̍p, pẽng, kah, kũa.
 * kaⁿ íⁿ-ki̍p keng-chie kāng-chîⁿ saⁿ-peh-chîⁿ,
 * oranges and bananas together were three-hundred cash.
 * che̍k-kâi-ngṳ̂n pẽng-chîⁿ sì-sek,
 * a dollar and forty cents.
 * bói-gô kah-chiah-koi,
 * buy a goose and a fowl.
 * i bōi che̍k-bóu-chhân kah-kũa che̍k-kò-hn̂g,
 * he sold an acre of watered land and a piece of unwatered.


 * —iā-ũ iā-bô,
 * also have, also have not.
 * õ, lṳ́ iā-tàⁿ i-kâi-ūe,
 * O, you also are talking his words.
 * nâng gō-sí, cheng-seⁿ iā-gō-sí,
 * the men starve to death and the stock also starve to death.


 * —chhin-chhiẽⁿ, jû, pêng, àn.
 * jû-lṳ́ só-tàⁿ,
 * as you say.
 * pêng-lṳ́ só-tàⁿ,
 * as you say.
 * chò-sṳ̄ jû-siêⁿ,
 * (he) acts as he always does.
 * ji̍t che̍k-ē-lo̍h uá chiũ-ji̍p-siâⁿ,
 * as the sun set I entered the city.
 * jû...chièⁿ-seⁿ,
 * as...so.
 * àn...chièⁿ-seⁿ,
 * as...so.
 * àn-lṳ́ só-chò che̍k-iēⁿ,
 * the same as you do.


 * —uân-in, in-tì, in-ũi-tie̍h.
 * uân-in hièⁿ-kú bô-hõu,
 * because for so long there was no rain.
 * in-tì nõⁿ-nâng bô-hûa-mo̍k,
 * because the two men were not at peace.
 * in-ũi-tie̍h si̍h-pńg,
 * because he lost his capital.
 * uân-in chò-nî,
 * because of what? Why so?


 * —liáng-kâi, jī-ke.
 * liáng-kâi chhou-chhou,
 * both are coarse.
 * jī-ke sie-mēⁿ,
 * both are quarrelling.
 * nõ-nâng pêⁿ-pêⁿ-jiáng,
 * the two men were alike wrangling.
 * pí-chhṳ́ tie̍h-sūn kui-kṳ́,
 * both must follow the custom.


 * —a-sĩ, jia̍k-sĩ, tiāⁿ-sĩ, nāⁿ-sĩ.
 * mn̂g a-sĩ bô-khui chiũ-hó tńg--lâi,
 * the door, if it is not open, then you may come back.
 * a-sĩ chièⁿ-seⁿ,
 * if it is like that.
 * jia̍k-sĩ chièⁿ-seⁿ,
 * tiāⁿ-sĩ chièⁿ-seⁿ,
 * if certainly so.
 * nãⁿ-sĩ chièⁿ-seⁿ,
 * if it is so.
 * if it is so.