Whew... what a relief!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:30 am

Where Mandarin and Yue use 好才 for "Luckily...", Minnan uses 'heng' 幸.

1. Is the correct word(s) for "lucky/luckily" 'heng' 幸 or 'ho c'ai' 好才?
2. What is the grammatically-correct way to say "Luckily... <something>"?

Regards,
Mark

hong · Post by **hong** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:18 am

If you want to use 幸﹐you can say 萬幸 ban hing like mandarin=贏錢真萬幸。
好代得 tai tit/lit (tai is like the hanzi 事志) is used like 好佳哉你沒來。I don't think Penang know hpw to use it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:21 pm

好才 for Mandarin?

I use 幸好、幸虧。

same person as just above · Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:39 pm

also *好在*

hong · Post by **hong** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:50 pm

好在 is from 杜甫因君问消息，好在阮文瑜===注，好在乃存问之词
高力士=诸将士各好在?
ho ka cai is 嘉哉是嘉之载之省

hong · Post by **hong** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:52 pm

sorry,above is 嘉之哉。

niuc · Post by **niuc** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:42 am

We usually say ho2-chai2 好采(好在?), sometimes ho2-ka1-cai3 好嘉載, practically never use hing7 幸.