Amoy (linguistics)/Complement constructions/traditional
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[edit] Complement constructions
As the following example shows, Amoy complement construnctions roughly parallel Standard Mandarin, with some exceptions (in red).
| particle | English | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adverb | He runs quickly. | Amoy | 伊 | 走 | 會 | 緊 | ||||
| Mandarin | 他 | 跑 | 得 | 快 | ||||||
| English | He | runs | obtains | quick | ||||||
| adverb | He runs very quickly. | Amoy | 伊 | 走 | 足 | 緊 | ||||
| Mandarin | 他 | 跑 | 得 | 很 | 快 | |||||
| English | He | runs | very | quick | ||||||
| adverb | He does not run quickly. | Amoy | 伊 | 走 | 未 | 緊 | ||||
| Mandarin | 他 | 跑 | 不 | 快 | ||||||
| English | He | runs | not | quick | ||||||
| can | He can see. | Amoy | 伊 | 看 | 會 | 著 | ||||
| Mandarin | 他 | 看 | 得 | 到 | ||||||
| English | He | sees | obtains | already achieved | ||||||
| can | He can not see. | Amoy | 伊 | 看 | 未 | 著 | ||||
| Mandarin | 他 | 看 | 不 | 到 | ||||||
| English | He | sees | not | already achieved | ||||||
| so | He was so startled, that he could not speak. | Amoy | 伊 | 驚 | 甲 | 話 | 每 | 講 | 未 | 出來 |
| Mandarin | 他 | 嚇 | 得 | 話 | 都 | 說 | 不 | 出來 | ||
| English | He | startled | to the point of | words | also | say | not | come out | ||
