What did ZCS say to her son

Ziao’ciu Sim said to her son: “iu7 si6 ke3 tao1 diah4 nang7 gai7 又是去偷摘儂個” and I translate this statement as “Gone to steal other people’s again.”

tao1 diah4 – to pick other people’s fruits or flowers without permission

Have you noticed that we Teochew people never say the obvious? In the case, after gai7 could be muêh8giaⁿ6 物件 [things] or ni6guê2 奶瓜 [papaya] or whatever and the final word is omitted. 

Let us now turn to “nang” and there are nang2 俺, nang5 人 and nang7 儂

nang2 which means we, including the listener

nang5 like bag8nang5 別人 to mean other people or our own people is said as ga1gi7nang5 家己人

nang7 means other people