Talk:毋好

Noun or adjective?

@Mlgc1998 Is this a noun or an adjective? It seems like an adjective to me. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 03:14, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: This one is treated like a noun, like 你有毋好 "dí ǔ m̄-hó" but sometimes people just directly say 你毋好 "dí m̄-hó", more frequently though, people treat it like a noun, since it would be odd to say 你野毋好 "dí iá m̄-hó". For the adjective of generally describing someone or something as not good/well or sick, people would instead say 無好 "bô-hó", like 你野無好 "dí iá bô-hó" as literally "you're really not well (yet)!" or figuratively "you haven't been cured yet!"--Mlgc1998 (talk) 17:50, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

@Mlgc1998: Hmm, its distribution doesn't tell us definitively that it's a noun, but it does seem like it's not necessarily an adjective either. It could be a verb. Could you say something like 一個毋好? @Mar vin kaiser, I wonder what you think. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 22:03, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: I think it would be more like 一個有毋好 "chi̍t-gê ǔ m̄-hó"--Mlgc1998 (talk) 00:40, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@Mlgc1998: And that means "a sickness" or what? — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 08:17, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: It means literally "This one has a sickness." or figuratively "This one's sick."--Mlgc1998 (talk) 12:44, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@Justinrleung: We use it like a verb, in any case, "我咧毋好" is a valid sentence here. It means that "I'm sick". The sentence "我有毋好" is also valid, meaning "This one is sick". It being a verb makes the most sense. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 12:49, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

@Mlgc1998, Mar vin kaiser: Thanks, guys! Yeah, treating it as a verb seems to make the most sense to me. (Teochew actually has the analogous 唔好.) — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 00:31, 21 November 2019 (UTC)