"Kok-ka" pán-pún chi-kan bô-kāng--ê tē-hng

Tī Eng-gí, chi̍t kóa liân-pang ē-té ê kò-pia̍t pang hūn sī siat chò ''state'', sī chi̍t khoán leng-thó͘-sèng kiam hiān-chèng-sèng ê kiōng-tông-thé, in cho͘-sêng [[liân-pang]] ê chi̍t pō͘-hūn.<ref name="AUTOREF4">''The Australian National Dictionary: Fourth Edition'', pg 1395. (2004) Canberra. {{ISBN|0-19-551771-7}}.</ref> Sui-bóng it-poaⁿ hoan-e̍k chò "chiu", chiaChia ê ''state'' sīū pō͘-hūn ê [[chú-khoân]] pun hō͘ [[liân-pang chèng-hú]] ê chi̍t khoán kok-ka.<ref name="oxford-state">{{cite journal |title=state |work=Concise Oxford English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=9th |year=1995 |editor1-first=Della |editor1-last=Thompson}}</ref>