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#16	Hokkien by Rick Shaw
Hokkien	English
我宛然佇夢中看見，音樂覕佇老厝邊的花盆中。我透過一個異國的小鬼仔殼看見，暗頭仔發光的火。這敢是寶藏？祖先攏咧笑，但是眠夢的時陣已經過去矣。毋管兵仔往佗位走，目睭原在彈吉他。囡仔穿隱性的衫，我看著密婆仔。查某的衫看起來親像麭佮網仔。怹走矣、怹翻身矣、怹無去矣。 guá uán-jiân tī bāng tiong khuànn-kìnn im-ga̍k bih tī láu tshù pinn ê hue-phûn tiong, guá thàu-kuè tsi̍t ê ī-kok ê siáu-kuí-á-khak àm-thâu-á huat-kng ê hué, tse kám sī pó-tsōng? tsóo-sian lóng teh tshiò, tān-sī bîn-bāng ê sî-tsūn í-king kuè-khì ah. m̄-kuán ping-á óng tó-uī tsáu, ba̍k-tsiu guân-tsāi tuânn gì-tà. gín-á tshīng ún-sìng ê sann, guá khuànn tio̍h bi̍t-pô á. tsa-bóo ê sann khuànn khí-lâi tshin-tshiūnn pháng kah bāng-á in tsáu ah, in huan-sin ah, in bô-khì ah.	It is as if I saw it in a dream, music hiding inside the flowers in an old house. I saw it through an exotic mask, a fire burning in the evening. Is this a treasure? The ancestors are all laughing, but the time for dreaming is already over. Whenever the soldiers are running, the eye still plays the guitar. The child wears invisible clothes, I see little bats. The girl's clothes look like breads and nets. They left, the turned around, they disappeared.

#16

Hokkien by Rick Shaw

Hokkien

English

我宛然佇夢中看見，
音樂覕佇老厝邊的花盆中。
我透過一個異國的小鬼仔殼看見，
暗頭仔發光的火。
這敢是寶藏？
祖先攏咧笑，但是眠夢的時陣已經過去矣。
毋管兵仔往佗位走，目睭原在彈吉他。
囡仔穿隱性的衫，我看著密婆仔。
查某的衫看起來親像麭佮網仔。
怹走矣、怹翻身矣、怹無去矣。

guá uán-jiân tī bāng tiong khuànn-kìnn
im-ga̍k bih tī láu tshù pinn ê hue-phûn tiong,
guá thàu-kuè tsi̍t ê ī-kok ê siáu-kuí-á-khak
àm-thâu-á huat-kng ê hué,
tse kám sī pó-tsōng?
tsóo-sian lóng teh tshiò, tān-sī bîn-bāng ê sî-tsūn í-king kuè-khì ah.
m̄-kuán ping-á óng tó-uī tsáu, ba̍k-tsiu guân-tsāi tuânn gì-tà.
gín-á tshīng ún-sìng ê sann, guá khuànn tio̍h bi̍t-pô á.
tsa-bóo ê sann khuànn khí-lâi tshin-tshiūnn pháng kah bāng-á
in tsáu ah, in huan-sin ah, in bô-khì ah.

It is as if I saw it in a dream,
music hiding inside the flowers in an old house.
I saw it through an exotic mask,
a fire burning in the evening.
Is this a treasure?
The ancestors are all laughing, but the time for dreaming is already over.
Whenever the soldiers are running, the eye still plays the guitar.
The child wears invisible clothes, I see little bats.
The girl's clothes look like breads and nets.
They left, the turned around, they disappeared.

GLOSSARY

我 - guá - I
宛然 - uán-jiân - like
佇 - tī - in
夢 - bāng - dream
中 - tiong - inside
看見 - khuànn-kìnn - see
音樂 - im-ga̍k - music
覕 - bih - hide
老 - láu - old
厝 - tshù - house
邊 - pinn - next to
的 - ê - possessive marker/description marker/relativization marker
花盆 - hue-phûn - flowerpot
透過 - thàu-kuè - through
一 - tsi̍t - one
個 - ê - classifier
異國 - ī-kok - exotic
小鬼仔殼 - siáu-kuí-á-khak - mask
暗頭仔 - àm-thâu-á - evening
發光 - huat-kng - shine
火 - hué - fire
這 - tse - this
敢 - kám - question marker
是 - sī - be
寶藏 - pó-tsōng - treasure
祖先 - tsóo-sian - ancestor
攏 - lóng - all
咧 - teh - present continuous marker
笑 - tshiò - laugh
但是 - tān-sī - but
眠夢 - bîn-bāng - dream
時陣 - sî-tsūn - time
已經 - í-king - already
過去 - kuè-khì - pass
矣 - ah - change of state particle
毋管 - m̄-kuán - no matter
兵仔 - ping-á - soldier
往 - óng - towards
佗位 - tó-uī - where
走 - tsáu - run
目睭 - ba̍k-tsiu - eye
原在 - guân-tsāi - still
彈 - tuânn - play
吉他 - gì-tà - guitar
囡仔 - gín-á - child
穿 - tshīng - wear
隱性 - ún-sìng - invisible
衫 - sann - clothes
看 - khuànn - see
著 - tio̍h - verbal completion marker
密婆 - bi̍t-pô - bat
仔 - á - diminutive
查某 - tsa-bóo - girl
起來 - khí-lâi - like
親像 - tshin-tshiūnn - like
麭 - pháng - bread
佮 - kah - and
網仔 - bāng-á - net
怹 - in - they
翻身 - huan-sin - turn around
無去 - bô-khì - disappear

NOTES

Taiwanese Hokkien is often conducted in SVO, but the occasional SOV is tolerated as well.

Taiwanese Hokkien lacks grammatical number, gender, tense, and personal conjugation, and several particles are used to denote aspect or mood.

Classifier words come between a numeral and a noun, and although required, do not denote any special meaning

In the text, all three forms of the article 的 are used. As a possession marker, it is situated between the pronoun and the noun. As a description marker, it is after the adjective and before the noun. And being the relativization marker, it is placed between the verb and the noun.