Talk:等咧

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@Mar vin kaiser Hi, could you please check this entry? — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 20:15, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Well, we do say a word like "tán--e", but it means "later", not "wait a moment". So for example, in a sentence like "guá tán--e beh tshut--khì", it means "I will go out later". For "wait a moment", we say "tán--tse" (which seems like a contraction of "等一下" tán--tsi̍t-ě). Also, in the sample sentence, if someone says "tán--ě-la", it would mean "later". "góa bǒe liáu--pa" should be "góa bē liáu--pa", and the "pa" there is from Tagalog, meaning "not yet". It's one of the phenomena here where Tagalog particles are inserted into Hokkien. Relatively common. Even though "pa" means "not yet", which is what "bē" means. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 10:29, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

@Mar vin kaiser: I wonder if it should be 等咧 then. If not, could you fix the entry as you see fit? — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 11:21, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: Actually, it seems likely to be "等咧", since "等下" makes no sense. Similar to "遲啲" in Cantonese. Would this be SoP? --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 12:41, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

@Mar vin kaiser: Both could make sense. We could say 遲下 in Cantonese as well. Also in Mandarin, it could be 等會(兒). 等咧 is in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典, and it's not entirely clear that it's an adverb meaning "later" so I don't think it's SoP. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 19:34, 4 July 2020 (UTC)