• Hakka Food

    Crystal is talking about her favorite food before she became a vegetarian.

    ngai
    1.SG
    sep
    eat
    zai
    vegetarian-food
    i-qian
    before
    zui
    most
    zong-i
    like
    sep
    eat
    e
    ASSOC
    id
    one
    za’
    CL
    hat-ga
    Hakka
    coi
    dish
    he
    be
    hat-ga
    Hakka
    ngiu’
    meat
    ian
    ball
    “Before I became a vegetarian, one of my favorite Hakka dish is Hakka meat balls”

    hat-ga
    Hakka
    ngiu
    meat
    ian
    ball
    iu 
    has
    sam
    three
    zong
    type
    “There are three types of Hakka meat balls”

    zu
    pig
    ngiu’
    meat
    ian
    ball
    ngiu
    cow
    ngiu’
    meat
    ian
    ball
    han-iu
    and
    van
    grass-carp
    ian
    ball
    “Pork balls, beef balls and fish balls”

    han-iu
    and
    hiong-gu
    mushroom
    ian
    ball
    ham-zo
    call
    fi
    assortment
    ian
    ball
    “And there are mushroom balls, too. They are called Fi Balls”

    dan-he
    but
    ngai
    1.SG
    zui
    most
    zong-i
    like
    sep
    eat
    e
    NOM
    he
    be
    ngiu
    cow
    ngiu’
    meat
    ian
    ball
    “But my favorite is beef balls”

    ngai
    1.SG
    go’-de
    think
    hat-ga
    Hakka
    ngiu
    cow
    ngiu’
    meat
    ian
    ball
    “I think as for Hakka beef balls”

    zit
    only
    iu
    has
    moi-iam
    MeiXian
    e
    ASSOC
    zang
    only
    zui
    most
    zen-zong
    authentic
    “Only MeiXian’s beef balls are the most authentic”

    ki-ta
    other
    ti-fong
    place
    e
    ASSOC
    ngiu’
    meat
    ian
    ball
    fun
    flour
    tie’
    too
    do
    much
    mm
    NEG
    au
    good
    sep
    eat
    “Meat balls from other places have too much flour in them, they are not tasty”

    dan-he
    but
    gin-ha
    now
    ngai
    1.SG
    sep
    eat
    zai
    vegetarian-food
    “But now I’m a vegetarian”

    so-i
    so
    mm
    NEG
    zai
    again
    sep
    eat
    ngiu’
    meat
    ian
    ball
    ne
    SFP
    “I no longer eat meat balls”

    1                            first person
    ASSOC              associative
    CL                         classifier
    NEG                    negation
    NOM                  nominalizer
    SFP                      sentence final particle

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