Useful Phrases in the Shanghai Dialect
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- USEFUL PHRASES IN THE SHANGHAI DIALECT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Description of the Shanghai Romanised System.
- Initials.
- Finals.
- SALUTATIONS.
- ON THE STREET.
- THE MERCHANT.
- GOING UP-COUNTRY.
- THE COOK (大司務).
- HOUSE BOY (西崽) and COOLIE (出點).
- AMAH (阿媽).
- THE GENTLEMEN’S TAILOR (栽縫).
- THE LADIES’ TAILOR.
- THE WASHERMAN (淨衣裳个人).
- THE MAFOO (馬夫).
- I. Riding.
- II. Driving.
- PURCHASING.
- THE CHINESE TEACHER (先生).
- NUMERALS (藪目).
- CLASSIFIERS.
- First Classifier, 个 (kuh).
- Second Classifier, 隻 (tsak).
- Third Classifier, 把 (po).
- Fourth Classifier, 條 (diau).
- Fifth Classifier, 根 (kung).
- Sixth Classifier, 本 (pung).
- Seventh Classifier, 部 (boo).
- Eighth Classifier, 座 (zoo).
- Ninth Classifier, 疋 (phih).
- Tenth Classifier, 匹 (phih).
- Eleventh Classifier, 塊 (khwe).
- Twelfth Classifier, 幅 (fok).
- Thirteenth Classifier, 扇 (sen).
- Fourteenth Classifier, 乘 (dzung).
- Fifteenth Classifier, 頂 (ting).
- Sixteenth Classifier, 位 (we).
- Seventeenth Classifier, 張 (tsang).
- Eighteenth Classifier, 爿 (ban).
- Nineteenth Classifier, 副 (foo).
- Twentieth Classifier, 雙 (saung).
- Twenty-first Classifier, 尊 (tsung).
- Twenty-second Classifier, 包 (pau).
- Twenty-third Classifier, 棵 (khoo).
- Twenty-fourth Classifier, 面 (mien).
- Twenty-fifth Classifier, 堆 (te).
- Twenty-sixth Classifier, 綑 (khwung).
- Twenty-seventh Classifier, 管 (kwen).
- Twenty-eighth Classifier, 對 (te).
- Twenty-ninth Classifier, 口 (kheu).
- Thirtieth Classifier, 桶 doong).
- Thirty-first Classifier, 瓶 (bing)
- Thirty-second Classifier, 箱 (siang).
- Thirty-third Classifier, 封 (foong).
- Thirty-fourth Classifier, 帮 (paung).
- Thirty-fifth Classifier, 回 (we).
- Thirty-sixth Classifier, 票 (phiau).
- Thirty-seventh Classifier, 樁 (tsaung).
- Thirty-eighth Classifier, 層 (dzung).
- Thirty-ninth Classifier, 藏 (dzaung).
- Fortieth Classifier, 股 (koo).
- Forty-first Classifier, 間 (kan).
- Forty-second Classifier, 件 (jien).
- Forty-third Classifier, 捸 (da).
- PRONOUNS.
- Personal Pronouns.
- Interrogative Pronouns.
- Demonstrative Pronouns.
- Indefinite Pronouns.
- Examples of Adjectives.
- Adverbs.
- Conjunctions.
- DIRECTIONS (方向).
- TITLES OR DESIGNATIONS (稱呼).
- WEATHER (天氣).
- HOUSE VOCABULARY.
- TIME (時候).
- INDEX AND VOCABULARY.
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