Sunday, February 27, 2011

Basic Course: Lesson 7 Vocabulary

Here is the vocabulary list for lesson seven of the Basic Course. Whereas the last three lessons discussed classroom vocabulary, this lesson brings us into the realm of food.

  1. 佢 · kui · he, her, him, it
  2. 逽 · nìak · you (plural); (singular in the possessive case)
  3. 哦 · ngọi · we, us
  4. 買 · mai · to buy
  5. 鷄 · gai · chicken
  6. 米 · māi · raw rice
  7. 飯 · fàn · cooked rice
  8. 粉 · fūn · noodle, powder
  9. 街 · gại* · street
  10. 去街 · hui gại* · to go out
  11. 吃 · hiak · to eat
  12. 做 · du · to do, work, make
  13. 慢慢行 · màn-màn* häng · good-bye (walk slowly)
  14. 幾好喇嗎? · gī-hō lā-ma (gēi-hō lā-ma) · how are you?
  15. 走 · dāu · to leave, to run
  16. 乃個 · nại goi · who?
  17. 呀 · ā · (final particle)
  18. 出街 · chūt gại* (chūt gại) · to go out

Unlike Mandarin or Cantonese, Taishanese has single-syllable words for the plural pronouns (i.e. us, you, them). In this chapter, we get two: 哦 ngọi “us” and 逽 nìak “you” (“y’all” or “you guys” in colloquial American). Since these words don’t exist in Mandarin or Cantonese, these characters are adaptations.

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