Category Archives: G

Have a good eye; have good business sense

Chin ū gán-kong

Sales, business

Gia̍p8-chek

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Kùi kong-si ê gia̍p8-chek chin hó.

Your company’s business is good.

With people from outside school

Kap ha̍k8-hāu gōa-bīn ê lâng

Young people wear their jeans tight

 

Siàu-liân-lâng chhēng gû-á-khò·, lóng chhēng kah chin piⁿ.

First language, second language

Tē-it gí-giân, tē-jī gí-giân

Só∙-kóng ê tē-it gí-giân sī kí lán-lâng chhut-sì liáu tē-it ê o̍h – khí – lâi ê gí-giân.

The so-called first language is the language that we learn first after being born.

(Chiung, Wi-vun Tiaffalo.  Gí-giân, Bûn-ha̍k, kap Tâi-oân Kok-ka Chài-sióng-siōng.  Tainan: National Cheng Gung University Press, 2007. Page 48).

Zero-sum

Góa iâⁿ lí su

Have a mistaken impression about …

Tùi … ū gō•-kái ê ìn-siōng

Gîam-keh kóng — khí-lâi, …

Strictly speaking, …

Gôan-chek-siōng …

In principle / as a general rule …

Góa iâⁿ lí su

Zero-sum