WORDS COMBINED.
1.—Furniture. 2.—A stool. 3.—A stove.
4.—Flower vase. Wine pot. Tea pot. Dishes. Plates.
5.—Light the lamp. Blow out the lamp. Light the fire. Blow out the fire.
6.—To pour or upset water. 7.—Empty pot. The pot is full.
8.—To spoil by breaking. To mend.
9.—Everything that is used in a house is furniture.
10.—Beds, tables, chairs, stools, are all room furniture.
11.—Table furniture consists of knives, forks, spoons, plates, rice bowls and wine cups.
12.—Stoves are of different sizes. The house stove for cooking rice is large. Bedrooms have all small stoves. The stove used to warm a room is a small stove.
13.—May flower vases also be considered furniture? They may be so considered.
14.—Wine pots, tea pots, and tea cups are all miscellaneous furniture.
15.—The water in the cup is poured into the pan.
16.—Chia chiang means to ask some one to pour tea into the cups.
17.—Have you lit the lamp? I lit it; but he blew it out.
18.—To blow out a lamp is to extinguish the flame of the lamp. To extinguish fire is to put out a fire (as) in a fireplace.
19.—Is there water in these two kettles? One is full, the other is empty. Fill the empty one with water.
20.—Who is it that has broken the flower vase? I do not know who it was. Had I not better get some one to mend it at once? Yes, you had much better tell some one to mend it.
1.—Chia shih. 2.—Yi lai tang. 3. Yi lai sao.
4.—To pieh. Chieh chu. Chieh chiang. Pieh. Pieh niu.
5.—Tou tai. Choh tai. Tiao tu. Ta tu.
6.—Liang ou. 7.—Kung chieh. Chieh pai.
8.—T’u p’a yeh. Hsüeh hsüeh.
9.—Tiu chieh hsia keh nung keh ai tou tiao chia shih.
10.—Ch’u, tang, kuei yüeh, tang tou tiao tiu chieh chia shih.
11.—Nang ka pieh chia shih tiao tu, tia, tiao kên, pieh niu, ti ka, o chu.
12.—Lai sao mai ‘hlioh mai niu a toh. Chieh sao hao ka tiao sao ‘hlioh. Chieh ch’u keh tiung tou mai sao niu. Tiu chieh hsia sao tiao tu tiao sao niu.
13.—Lai to pieh tou sui tiao chia shih a tiao. To pieh tou sui tiao chia shih.
14.—Chieh chu, chieh chiang, o chiang tou si hsia chia shih.
15.—Ti ou liang tiao tiu vi.
16.—Chia chiang koh nai pa chiang chia tiao tiu o.
17.—Moung tou tai a pa. Vai tou ku tai. Tiao ngi choh ta yeh.
18.—Choh tai tiao ta tai tu. Ta tu tiao ta sao pieh tu.
19.—Au lai chieh keh tiung mai ou a mai. Yi lai pai yi lai kung. Moung pa lai kung liang pai ou.
20.—Lai to pieh tê shi tui tu. Vai a pang tê shi. Hang moung koh nai hsüeh hsüeh, ku i a ku i. Koh nai hsüeh hsüeh ghou kuai.