Thursday 23 June 2022

Common Cold

In today’s translation of what is said in the video, I will do it differently as shown below.

Mandarin

Romanised Teochew

Teochew Characters

English translation

DuDu 嘟嘟 and her mother was having a 25 seconds conversation in Teochew Uê about the spread of common cold. You may find it interesting to note the differences between Mandarin and spoken Teochew Uê. You will also notice initially DuDu speaks a Mandarin Teochew Uê and in her last sentence, she spoke in proper Teochew.

媽咪你感冒啊

Ma1mi1 le2 gam2mao6 a7?

媽咪你感冒啊

Mummy, have you caught a cold?

 

是啊

n7 lê7

That is correct.

 

都是你傳染給我的

Nou5gian2 le2 uê3 ke3

孥囝汝穢去孥囝汝秽去

From Mandarin subtitles: all of you have spread it to me

From what is said in Teochew: Children, you have spread (the cold).

 How various places say sleep can be found on this website. I say ngh8 for sleep. How do you say sleep?

我感冒是上星期的事了

Ua2 gam2mao6 si6 zion6 cên1ki5 gai7 se6

我感冒是上星期個事

I caught a cold a week ago.

 

阿爸比昨天感冒你今天就會

A1Ba1bi1 za1rig8 gam2mao6 gim1rig8 zui6 le2 ao6

阿爸比昨日感冒今日就汝後

Daddy had a cold yesterday and you have it today.

 

我昨天叫你去小床上睡

Za2mên5 ua2 gao1dai3 le2 lai2ke3 soi3 ming5ceng5 go3 in6

昨暝我交代汝來去細眠牀塊夗|昨暝我交代汝来去细眠床块夗

I told you last night to sleep on the small bed

 

你就跑到大

Le2 zao2 ke3 dua7 ming5ceng5 go3 in6

汝走去大眠牀塊夗|汝走去大眠床块夗

You ran to sleep on the big bed.


還說是我傳染你的

Huan1 dan3 ua2 uê3 le2

還呾我穢|还呾我秽

Still say I spread (the cold to) you.

 


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