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

How many children have you got?
နဖိၪၥံ ၪအီၪဎွ ့ဂၩလဲၪ
I have got two boys and three girls.
ယဖိၪခွါအီၪနံၫဂၩဒဲဖိၪမု ၪၥၧၫ့ဂၩလီၫ.
Do your children go to school?
နဖိၪၥံ ၪလ့ ၩလၧဆၧမၩလိၪအလးဧၪ.
Yes; my eldest son has passed the higher standard.
မွဲ, ယဖိၪခွၫအဝဲၡါနီၪဖျီၫ့ယူၭအဖု ၫအထီၫလီၫ.
My youngest daughter has got small-pox.
ယဖိၪမု ၪအဒၪဘၨၩကဂၩဘၪလိးလီၫ.
You should take her to hospital.
နကကၨၭလ့ ၩဆိၬအဝ့ ၫလၧဆၧဆၫအဂံ ၪ့လီၫ.
You should have your children vaccinated.
နကကၨၭဆ့ ၭထၬနဖိၪၥံ ၪလၧလိးလီၫ.
My father died last month and my mother is very sick.
ယဖါၥံ ၫလၧလၩခီၩကဘံ ၪ့ဒဲယမိဆၫဎၧၫ့နၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
You are very unlucky.
နဘိၫ့ဂ့ ၩနးဆံ ၭအ့ ၬ.
Come for a walk with me this evening.
ကဂၩယီၩ ဂၭကွ ့ၩဎု ၬ လၧယၧၩဆံ ၭ.
I cannot come as I have a cold, but I will come and visit you next Saturday.
ဆၧဂီးဘၪယၧၩတၭ ယဂဲၫၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ, လါနၫ့ ယ ကဂဲၫအီၪကွ ့ၩ နၧၩ ခိၬမု ဎူၫနံၩလီၫ.
Have you ever travelled by the railway?
နလ့ ၩဆၧလၧလဲၪ့မ့ ၪလခီၫကကၠၪကၠၪဧၪ.
No. Next month I wish to go by the railway to Mandalay, and to return by steamer.
မွဲအ့ ၬ,လၩနးဘံ ၪ့ဒီၭ မိလ့ ၩဘၪယၥၭလၧ ဝံးမၩ့တလ့ ၩ လၧလဲၪ့မ့ ၪလခီၫဒဲ ဂဲၫထဲၩ့ထဲၩ့ လၧကဘၩ့မ့ ၪလခီၫလီၫ.
I have met very few Karens in Upper Burma.
ယဒၪခီၩ့ ၦဖျိၩ့ဖိၪၥံ ၪၡၩဂၩ လၧခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩထၭလခီၫလီၫ.
The Karens can sing very well.
ၦဖျိၩ့ဖိၪၥံ ၪ ၥၭအွ ံ ၪဆၧၥ့ ၪ ဂ့ ၩနၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
Some Karen maids have been to England.
ၦဖျိၩ့မု ၪနၩ့ကနၩ့နၩ့ လ့ ၩထီၩ့ လၧခးအံ ၩ့ကလံၭလီၫ.
When I went in a big steamer I got seasick.
ထီၩ့ယလ့ ၩထူၭကဘၩ့မ့ ၪဖၭဒိၪကဖျိၪ့နီၪ ယမၧၩ့မၫ့ၥမံ ၭလီၫ.
I have never been in the Delta before.
လၧခီၩအိၩ ယလ့ ၩထီၩ့ ထံၫထၪနးကၠၪအ့ ၬ.
I do not like it at all. The rains are very heavy and the country is under water.
ဘၪယၥၭနးဆံ ၭအ့ ၬ. ခးနီၪဖု ၫတၭ ထံၫအီၪဝၬဖီၩ့ အနဲၩ့ထံၭလၧဆၧဆၧၩ့ၥံ ၪဎိၩဝ့ ၫဒၪနၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
When I was a boy I could run very fast and jump very well.
လၧယဖိၪၥၪ အဆၧၫ့အထီနီၪ ယစဲၪ့ၥ့ ၪဖျဲၪလ့ ၬဒဲဖု ၫၥ့ ၪ ဂ့ ၩလ့ ၬလီၫ.
I am very fond of football but I am too old to play it now.
ယအဲၪဒိၭထၧၫ့ကွ ့ၩ ဘီၩနၭလ့ ၬ လါနၫ့ယၡါလၨၪလၧယကကွ ့ၩဘဲၫယီၩလီၫ.
If the clouds gather it is sure to rain; but if the breeze blows strongly all the clouds pass away.
အ့ ၪဆၧအု ၪ့ၥံ ၪအီၪကိၪ့ အီၪကီၪ့တၭ ဆၧကဆၧၩ့ၡါမၫလီၫ, လါနၫ့ လံၩအ့ ၪအူၪဆီၪ့ဆီၪ့တၭ ဆၧအု ၪ့ၥံ ၪဖီၩ့ခွ ံ ၬထီးအလူၬလီၫ.
During the rainy season mosquitos are very troublesome.
ဆၧဆၧၩ့အခၫ ဆၧဖိၪၥံ ၪ ၥၭၡိၫထၪ့နၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
In some places the people have to pat their cattle under mosquito curtains during the night.
လၧအလးကနၩ့နၩ့ ၦၡၩၥံ ၪဘၪအီၪက့ ၪ အဆၧမံ ၩ့ပနါၥံ ၪ လၧတနီၫဖၧၩ့ လၧမု နၩအခၫနီၪလီၫ.