Penang Hokkien Grammar
Go BackHow do you form sentences in Penang Hokkien? The lessons on Penang Hokkien Grammar, one of the most comprehensive to be found anywhere, is provided here, so that you get to know the various parts of speech in the language. As far as possible, terms used in these lessons try to correspond to those appearing in English, so that you can derive association from your existing knowledge of grammar.
The chapters below are arranged in alphabetical order. It is meant as reference. If you are new to the writing system, start at Penang Hokkien Made Easy.
- Taiji Romanisation
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Auxiliary Verbs
- Building Sentences
- Sentence Structure
- C and CH initial consonants
- Canonical Spelling
- Characteristics of Penang Hokkien Words
- Classifiers
- Comparing Consonants and other main romanisation systems
- Comparing Tones in Taiji and other main romanisation systems
- Conjunctions
- Degrees of Comparison
- Demonstratives
- Disambiguation
- Duration
- Emphatic Tone
- Grammatical Terminology
- Homophones & Heterographs
- Hyphenation
- Literary & Colloquial Readings
- Main & Subordinate Clause
- Money
- Nasalization
- Nouns
- Numbers
- Particles
- Passive Voice
- Possessives
- Prepositions
- Pronouns
- Punctuation
- Reduplication
- Spelling the Nasal Sound
- Suffixes
- Time
- Tone Sandhi
- Verbs
- Word Workshop
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