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

လၧမု နၩအိၩ နဒၪ ဆၧအၪ့ယု လၩဧၪ.
Yes; it was very wonderful.
မွဲ, လၩ့လၭ ဖၭဒိၪဝ့ ၫ နီၪလီၫ.
Dacoits are continually attacking our village.
ပတဝၫ့ယီၩ ထမျၬတု ၩ့ နၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
Who is their leader? အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪ အခိၪပလၫလဲၪ.
Maung Pu is their leader; the villagers got angry, hated him, and sought to kill him.
စပူၭမွဲ အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪအခိၪ, ၦတဝၫ့ဖိၪၥံ ၪ ၥု ၪ့ထၪ့ၥၭဂဲၫ့ မ့ ၬလဲၩဝ့ ၫတၭ အၪ့ဎၬ မၩၥံ ၫခွ ံ ၬဝ့ ၫဒၪလီၫ.
Last night a tiger came and carried off a man in our village.
လၧမု နၩအိၩ ဘီၪမု ကဒု ၩ ဂဲၫအဲၪ့ဆိၬ ၦကဂၩ လၧပတဝၫ့အဖၧၩ့လီၫ.
My son went to Upper Burma and I never saw him again.
ယဖိၪခွၫ လ့ ၩထၪ့ လၧခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩထၭလခီၫတၭ ယဒၪထဲၩ့အဝ့ ၫ နးကၠၪအ့ ၬလီၫ.
What time do you rise in the morning?
နဂဲထု ၪ့လၧဂီၩလခီၫ အဆၧၫ့အထီပၥ့ ၪလဲၪ.
Although I go to sleep very late, I always rise very early in the morning.
ပထဲၩ့မံ ၫလဆိၫဘၪ လါနၫ့, ယဂဲထု ၪ့ လၧဂီၩလခီၫ ဂီၩဂီၩလ့ ၬလီၫ.
From what hour to what hour do you attend school?
နထၪ့လၧၥရိ ၬ စၭထၪ့ဎွ ့နၩရံ ၩ လၧထီးအထီၩ့လၩ့ဎွ ့နၩရံ ၩလဲၪ.
From 10 o'clock in the morning to 4 o'clock in the evening.
လၧဆံ ၫနၩရံ ၩလဂီၩလခီၫ့ ထီၩ့လၩ့လၧလံနၩရံ ၩ လၧဂၪလခီၫလီၫ.
If I pass the examination, I hope to get a prize.
အ့ ၪယဖျီၪ့ လၧဆၧထိးအၪ့စၪ့ယၥၭတၭ ယဆိၫ့မု လါ လၧယကန့ဘၪ ခိၪဖၭလီၫ.
We can do anything if we make up our minds.
အ့ ၪပမိမၩဘၪပၥၭတၭ ပမၩဆၧၥ့ ၪ ကမံ ၩ့လါလါလီၫ.
Upper Burmans are mostly tattooed on both legs.
အၪဒၪဆၧ ၦဒီၩ့ဂိၩထၭလခီၫဖိၪၥံ ၪလဖၪနီၪ အီၪဒဲ ယီး လၧအခၪ့နံၫခီၫလူၬလီၫ.
Get the rice-pot and put it on the fire.
မၩန့ ဖၧၩ့မ့ ၩ ဒဲ ဒီၩ့ထၪ့ လၧမ့ ၪအဖၫ့ခိၪဆံ ၭ.
မၩန့ ဖၧၩ့မ့ ၩ ဒဲ ဒီၩ့လၫ့ လၧမ့ ၪအဖၫ့ခိၪဆံ ၭ.
The rice is cooked; take it off the fire.
မ့ ၩမံ ၫ့ယူၭ, ဆိၬလၩ့ခွ ံ ၬ လၧမ့ ၪအဖၫ့ခိၪဆံ ၭ.
မ့ ၩမံ ၫ့ယူၭ, ထီၫ့လၩ့ခွ ံ ၬ လၧမ့ ၪအဖၫ့ခိၪဆံ ၭ.
Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
မွဲ နဘၪဆၧၥူၫဝၭခွ ံ ၬ လၧၥိၪဖိၪအၥွ ံ ၪယူၭဧၪ.
If a man falls down a well, it is hard to save him, because however one may cry and call out it is hard to
hear him.
အ့ ၪၦၡၩကဂၩလၩ့ထ့ ၬလၧထံၫဖၧၩ့ဖၧၩ့တၭ မွဲဆၧကၪမၬလၧပကမၩဖီၩ့ဖျ ၭအဝ့ ့ ၫ အဂဲးဘဲၫယီၩ ဂၪ့ဘိၩဂၪ့ဂၪ့ ဒဲ ကိၭဘိၩကိၭကိၭ ပဘၪနါဂၧၫ့ အဝ့ ၫ
ကၪမၬလီၫ.
Exercise IV
I have a case for hearing.
ယဆၧမူၭ အီၪလၧ ဆၧကခိၭနၪလီၫ.
I do not understand your case; what do you mean?
နဆၧအမူၭနီၪ ယနၪၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ / နဆီၪ့မီၫ့ ဘဲၫၥ့ ၪလဲၪ.
It is a case of theft, the facts are as follows.
မွဲ ဆၧအၪ့ဂူၪအမူၭ, အဂဲးလဖၪ ဂဲၫဝ့ ၫ ဘဲၫယီၩလီၫ.
I think the case is very clear.
ယဆီၫ့မီၪ့ ဆၧအမူၭ ပျၩ့ ဂ့ ၩဘၪစဲၪလီၫ.