A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect Author: Charles Harry Duffin * A ...
A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect Author: Charles Harry Duffin * A ...
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Not a man. ၦၡၩနးဂၩအ့ ၬ.<br />
(9) Similar to <strong>the</strong> combination <strong>of</strong> cardinal numerals, a few indefinite numeral adjectives are combined with<br />
numeral affixes; e.g.<br />
_many_ အၪ, _few_ ၡၩ and _several_ တဘျုၭ.<br />
Many men ၦၡၩၥံ ၪအၪဂၩ<br />
Many horses ကၥ့ ၪၥံ ၪအၪဒု ၩ<br />
Many dogs ထွ ံၪၥံ ၪအၪဒု ၩ<br />
Many boats ချံၫၥံ ၪအၪဖျိၪ့<br />
Many carts လဲၪ့ၥံ ၪအၪခိၪ<br />
Many roads ဖၧၩ့ၥၭၥံ ၪအၪဘီၩ့<br />
Many rivers ထံၫချိၬၥံ ၪအၪဘီၩ့<br />
Many hats ခိၪလူၬၥံ ၪအၪဖျိၪ့<br />
Many trees ၥံ ၪ့ၥံ ၪအၪထံ ၭ<br />
Many cats မံ ၫယီၩၥံ ၪအၪဒု ၩ<br />
Few men ၦၡၩၥံ ၪၡၩဂၩ<br />
Few horses ကၥ့ ၪၥံ ၪၡၩဒု ၩ<br />
Few dogs ထွ ံၪၥံ ၪၡၩဒု ၩ<br />
Few boats ချံၫၥံ ၪၡၩဖျိၪ့<br />
Few carts လဲၪ့ၥံ ၪၡၩခိၪ<br />
Few roads ဖၧၩ့ၥၭၥံ ၪၡၩဘီၩ့<br />
Few rivers ထံၫချိၬၥံ ၪၡၩဘီၩ့<br />
Few hats ခိၪလူၬၥံ ၪၡၩဖျိၪ့<br />
Few trees ၥံ ၪ့ၥံ ၪၡၩထံၭ<br />
Few cats မံ ၫယီၩၥံ ၪၡၩဒု ၩ<br />
Several men ၦၡၩၥံ ၪတဘျုၭဂၩ<br />
Several horses ကၥ့ ၪၥံ ၪတဘျုၭဒု ၩ<br />
Several dogs ထွ ံၪၥံ ၪတဘျုၭဒု ၩ<br />
Several boats ချံၫၥံ ၪတဘျုၭဖျိၪ့<br />
Several carts လဲၪ့ၥံ ၪတဘျုၭခိၪ<br />
Several roads ဖၧၩ့ၥၭၥံ ၪတဘျုၭဘီၩ့<br />
Several rivers ထံၫချိၬၥံ ၪတဘျုၭဘီၩ့<br />
Several hats ခိၪလူၬၥံ ၪတဘျုၭဖျိၪ့<br />
Several trees ၥံ ၪ့ၥံ ၪတဘျုၭထံၭ<br />
Several cats မံ ၫယီၩၥံ ၪတဘျုၭဒု ၩ<br />
RULE 17. The comparative degree is formed by adding နဲၪ့, and <strong>the</strong> superlative degree by adding ထု ၬ, to <strong>the</strong><br />
adjective.<br />
Big ဒိၪ /Bigger ဒိၪနဲၪ့ /Biggest ဒိၪထု ၬ<br />
Old ၡါ /Older ၡါနဲၪ့ /Eldest ၡါထု ၬ<br />
Good ဂ့ ၩ /Better ဂ့ ၩနဲၪ့ /Best ဂ့ ၩထု ၬ<br />
Bad အၧၩ့ /Worse အၧၩ့နဲၪ့ /Worst အၧၩ့ထု ၬ<br />
Bright ယဲ /Brighter ယဲနဲၪ့ /Brightest ယဲထု ၬ<br />
Much အၪ /More အၪနဲၪ့ /Most အၪထု ၬ<br />
RULE 18. Conditional clauses are introduced by အၪ, which stands immediately before <strong>the</strong> subject, (as in English)<br />
and are terminated by တၭ.<br />
If you go out you will get wet. အ့ ၪ နလ့ ၩထၪ့ လၧခီၫ့လခီၫတၭ နကဘၪစီၪလီၫ.
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