Wawp' yinu ngai purteiunaige = I did not eat your fish.
Wawp' yinu ngai purteipakaige = I shall not eat your fish.
That exception is the particle aige or ge (804) the mode of employment of which is shown by the following examples : Wawp' yinu ngai purteipaige = I am not eating your fish.
Duke Ngai asked the disciple Tsai Wo respecting the places for sacrificing to the Earth.
Madame Lángai expended so much of her private means in the action that nearly the whole of the property left her by her husband went in costs.
Of the lovely Ko-Ngai no trace remained save a little shoe, which was left in the hand of the faithful serving-woman who had striven to catch her as she leaped into the flame.
So Ko-Ngai returned home sorrowful at heart; but she kept secret all that she had heard, and told no one what she had done.
His translation is enriched with a number of Chinese drawings; and there is a quaint little picture of Ko-Ngai leaping into the molten metal.
For she had sought to grasp Ko-Ngai by the foot as she leaped, but had only been able to clutch the shoe, and the pretty shoe came off in her hand; and she continued to stare at it like one gone mad.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ngai" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
