- 飯用蠻 van‘ yúng‘ man‘, have you dined?
- 還要再來否 wan yau‘ tsé‘ lé‘ vá, shall you come again?
- 曉得否 ’h’iau tuh ’vá, do you understand?
c. 麽 mó (mau), besides expressing direct and indirect interrogation, also implies a strong affirmative. ([Art. 278]).
- 第個稀奇個物事有磨 tí‘ kú‘ h’í gí kú‘ meh zz‘ ’yeu mó, is there this remarkable thing?
- 倒勿是十分壞良心麽 ’tau veh ’zz seh vun wá‘ liáng sing mó? is it not most wilfully unconscionable!
- 是否, 是麽 ’zz ’vá, ’zz mó, is it so? indeed it is?
- 第個價錢大麽 tí‘ kú‘ ká‘ díen dú‘ mó, the price of this is great indeed (亦通嗎).
334. The initial interrogatives 豈 ’k’í, how? 幾 ’kí, how many? with 那 ’ná, forming ’á ’lí, 那裏 where? which? and 那能 ’ná nung, how? have already been illustrated among the pronouns and adverbs.
335. The interjections properly so called are such as—
- 噯 é, ah! 噯動勿得個 é ’tóng veh tuh kú‘, ah! you must not do such a thing.
- 呔 t’é, ho! 呸 ’p’é, it is bad.
- 阿唷 ah yóh, alas! oh!
- 㕭 au‘, indicates assent, yes, or I understand. In the first tone, it calls attention or conveys a warning, 當心㕭 tong sing au, be careful and mind what I say.
- 呀 á, 喲 yá, as in 是呀 ’zz á, 是喲 ’zz yáh, it is so.
- 哇 vá, is it not so? 哈 hé, ah!
PART III.
ON SYNTAX.
Section 1. On Government.
336. The rules for the relative position of the parts of speech are few and simple. They will be first considered without reference to grouping, repetition, etc.; the syntax of words used under those forms will be presented in subsequent sections.
A substantive that governs another as an attributive genitive always precedes it, and the particle 個 kú‘ is inserted.