A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect Author: Charles Harry Duffin * A ...

COLLOQUIAL EXERCISES.
EXERCISE I.
What is your name? နမံ ၩ့ပၥ့ ၪလဲၪ
How old are you? နၥၭအီၪဎွ ့နံၪ့ယူၭလဲၪ
Where is your house? နယံ ၪ့အီၪတခီၫလဲၪ/နဂံ ၪ့အီၪထလဲၪ
How far is it? အီၪယဲၩ့ဆံ ၭအၪလဲၪ/အီၪဆံ ၭယဲၩ့လဲၪ
Is it far? ယဲၩ့ယိၬဧၪ/ဖၭယဲၩ့ဧၪ/ယဲၩ့လ့ ၬဧၪ/ဖၭယိၬဧၪ
It is near. အီၪဘူၭခိၬလီၫ.
How are you? နဆၧအီၪဘဲၫၥ့ ၪလဲၪ.
Are you well? နအီၪဆီၪ့ဂ့ ၩဧၪ.
Go there. လ့ ၩလၧအိၩ / လ့ ၩလၧနီၪ
What are you doing? နမၩနီၪလဲၪ/နမၩမနီၪလဲၪ
What date is it? လၩထၪ့ဎွ ့ၥၫ့လဲၪ
Is it true? မွဲၡါမၫဧၪ
Say something to me. လီၩဘၪယၧၩ နးထံၪဘီၪ
Have you ever ridden a horse? ၥ့ ၪနီၪ မွဲ နထူၬထၧၩ့ဧၪ
Yes; but I do not like it. မွဲ, လါနၫ့ ဘၪယၥၭ ကဆိၬဧဲၪ
Why does your horse shy? နကၥ့ ၪ ၡုၭ မွဲဘၪလဲၪ.
Because he is blind in one eye.
မွဲလၧ အဝ့ ၫအမ့ ၬၥၪဘျီၪကခီၫအကၠ ီၩ့လီၫ.
My brother has a small moustache.
ယဝဲနီၪ အနိၭဆီၫ့ အီၪ ကဆံ ၭဆံၭလီၫ.
Can you lend me Rs. 3/8/ -?
နအၪ့လီးယၧၩ လၧစ့ ၩၥၧၫ့ဘၭကဖၧၩ့ၥ့ ၪဧၪ.
နအၪ့လီးယၧၩ လၧစ့ ၩၥၧၫ့ဘၭ နံၫၥံ ၭၥ့ ၪဧၪ.
I am building a new house. ယၥု ၪ့ထၪ့ဂံ ၪ့အၥၫ့လီၫ.
How much will it cost? ကလူၬစ့ ၩ ဆံ ၭအၪလဲၪ.
I think it will cost as much as Rs 2,000.
ယဆီၪ့မီၫ့ ကလူၬစ့ ၩ ဖိၭဘိၭ နံၫထီၫ့ဘၭလီၫ.
When it rained I felt the cold.
ထီၩ့မွဲဆၧဆၧၩ့တၭ ဆၧဂီးဘၪယၧၩလီၫ.
Bring me some firewood.
ဂဲၫဆိၬအ့ ၪယၧၩ ၥံ ၪ့မု ကနၩ့နၩ့ဆံ ၭ.
Is it a long time since you came?
ခီၫဒၪလၧ နဂဲၫအီၪ ယံ ၬယိၬဧၪ.
EXERCISE II.
We must start at 6 o'clock. ပကဘၪစဲၪ့ထၪ့ လၧဎူၫနၩရံ ၩလီၫ.
In how many days shall we arrive there?
ပကထီၩ့ထီးနီၪ လၧမု ဎွ ့နံၩ အထးဖၧၩ့လဲၪ.
It is difficult to say. ဆၧကကၪ လၧပကစံၭလီၫ.
You must go if your father calls you.
အ့ ၪနဖါကိၭနၧၩတၭ နကဘၪလ့ ၩလီၫ.
Come and eat your food; the curry will get cold.
ဂဲၫထဲၩ့အၪ့ နဆၧအၪ့, ၥၧၫ့ ကချံၪ့လၩ့လီၫ.
I wish to get an appointment under Government.
မိမၩန့ယၥၭ လၧပဒိၪအဆၧမၩလီၫ.
If you work well, you will get promotion step by step.