The kid's come again today and ate a lot of things. (The speaker insinuates having "lost"
something with 脫, without presenting this as a newly
occurred state - the things had already been eaten for a while)
Don't mention my son, I'm already worried sick for him, yet he's still calm
as
cucumber, always on about being romantically stable, being romantically
stable.
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
(Cantonese,pronunciation spelling)Vowel
harmony
form of 嘅 (ge3,
“emphasis particle used at the end of declarative sentences”), pronounced as 個／个 (go3) when followed by sentence final particles with
vowel
o, such as 喎／㖞 (wo3).
係噉個喎／系噉个㖞[Cantonese] ― hai6
gam2go3 wo3[Jyutping]
― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
(dialectal)Sentence-final
declarative, affirmative, or prohibitive particle. Equivalent to Mandarin 的 (de), 了 (le).
(Cantonese,pronunciation spelling)Vowel
harmony
form of 嘅 (ge3,
“emphasis particle used at the end of declarative sentences”), pronounced as 個／个 (go3) when followed by sentence final particles with
vowel
o, such as 喎／㖞 (wo3).
係噉個喎／系噉个㖞[Cantonese] ― hai6
gam2go3 wo3[Jyutping]
― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
Used to show a verb has been completed before the last verb of a
sentence, often in a sequence of events.
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
Early in the morning [I] washed [my] feet, then [I] had lunch there, then
had
a chat with friends, then started going home, [I] got to the pier at
six,
and by the time I arrive home it's six-thirty.
Used to indicate the present perfective.
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
Xiauyu, you're leaving already? Why not have dinner first?
Used to indicate the present perfective.
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
Originally in Xinzhuang town, whatever that's high-end, there was very
few of
those things. People always, everybody would go take the metro line to
go to
the city.
타부둥중궈디화 구츠부능ᄉᆑ화
타믄진거부시대인 ta bu duq
juq gue di hoa; gu cy bu nyq siuie hoa; ta myn jin ge bu
si
dai 'in 터부ᇹ둥즁궈ᇹ디ᇹᅘᅪ
구츠ᇫ부ᇹ닁ᄉᆑᇹᅘᅪ
터문진거부ᇹ씨ᇫ대ᅀᅵᆫ te bux duq jiuq guex dix
hhoa;
gu cyz bux nyiq siuiex hhoa; te myn jin ge bux ssiz dai
zin
He does not understand the Chinese
tongue
and thus cannot speak; they truly are not
villains.
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
Now everybody gets anxious at the sight of this of course; they rush and run
to
support granny and keep her on there; it'd be a disaster if she
actually
fell.
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
Therefore the first Chinese people to enter the Shanghai Concession were
probably Cantonese, and so the earliest vernacular Shanghainese popular in
the
Concession would have been based on Cantonese, and so later
Shanghainese
has a lot of Cantonese "remnants".
(Can
we date this quote?), “金陵塔 [The Jinling
Tower]”[1]
(traditional Tanhuang tune adapted from Wuxi Opera repertoire), performed
by
袁一靈 [Yuan
Yiling]:
Used to indicate an interrogative perfective aspect.
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
There was a time in 1913 or 1914 when the credit-worthiness of the banknotes of a
number
of national banks in Beijing was growing day by day; it can truly be said to have
been
soaring by the day. I’ve heard that even country folk who had always been obsessed
with
silver realized that banknotes were not only convenient but reliable and were
thus quite happy to accept them and keep them in circulation.
Monsters and monstrous events take their rise from men. If men afford no cause for
them,
they do not arise of themselves. When men abandon the constant course of virtue,
then
monstrosities appear.
I've heard that... if anyone comes in between their marriage like that, his
wife
would surely kill them! Even though I'd probably turn it back on her
anyway and kill her [if that happens]...
Even if there was just exactly two, your uncle wouldn't be able to fight the
two
hooligans back. Your uncle here is no monk boy from the Shaolin temple,
remember; the hooligans might well manage to eventually beat your
uncle
up instead.
"Big News"? They didn't teach this sentence in the textbook at
all!
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
You're a waste of air alive and waste of soil dead, me talking to you right now is a
waste of time, now fuck off!
(when placed at the end of a sentence)Used to indicate
the
perfective
aspect.
2010, Qian Nairong, “從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態 [Tenses and
Aspects?
Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal
name):
