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

Last night a cobra bit my buffaloe. I killed the cobra and the doctor in our village cured my buffaloe.
လၧမု နၩအိၩ ဂူၥၫ့ကဘီၩ့ အဲၪ့ဘၪ ယပနါလီၫ. ယမၩၥံ ၫဂူၥၫ့နီၪတၭ ဆရၫလၧ ပတဝၫ့ဖၧၩ့ မၩဘျၪထဲၩ့ ယပနါလီၫ.
EXERCISE VI.
How much tobacco do you smoke in a month?
လၩကဘံ ၪ့ အထးဖၧၩ့ နအီၩၥံ ၪလူၬဆံ ၭအၪလဲၪ.
I smoke about 100 cigars and half a viss of tobacco.
ယအီၩလၩ့ဘူၭ ၥံ ၪမိၭကယၩဒဲ ၥံ ၪယဲရွ ၩလီၫ. ့
Last month I suffered from fever, and could not smoke at all.
လၧလၩခီၩကဘံ ၪ့ ယဘၪထိးဆၧဆူၪဂိၬ ဒဲ အီၩၥံ ၪမိၭနၧၩ့အ့ ၬ.
The beef in the bazaar is very bad.
ဆၧမံ ၩ့ယၪ လၧဖၠါဖၧၩ့နီၪ ဂ့ ၩနးဆံ ၭအ့ ၬ.
The pork is worse, and the fish is rotten.
ထိၭယၪဒံၩ့ လဂ့ ၩဘၪ ဒဲ ယၪနီၪ အု ၪလီၫ.
It is also difficult to get vegetables and fruit.
မွဲဆၧကၪလၧ ပကန့ဘၪဆၧဒိၭဆၧလၪၥံ ၪ ဒဲ ဆၧၥူၪဆၧၥၪဆ့ လီၫ.
Prawns, ducks and fowls are plentiful.
ၥဒၪ့တလီၩ့ၥံ ၪ ထိၪထၩၥံ ၪ ဒဲ ဆၫ့ၥံ ၪအီၪအၪလ့ ၬလီၫ.
Yesterday I bought one viss of prawns, 3 ducks and 4 fowls.
လၧမု ဂၪအိၩ ယဎွ ့ၩၥဒၪ့တလီၩ့ၥံ ၪကဖး ထိၪထၩၥံ ၪ ၥၧၫ့ဘံ ၪ့ ဒဲ ဆၫ့ၥံ ၪ လံဘံ ၪ့လီၫ.
Because he is married to the Thugyi's daughter, he says he fears nothing.
လၧအဝ့ ၫအီၪဎု ၬလၧစခၩ့အဖိၪမု ၪအကၠ ီၩ့ စံၭဝ့ ၫ ၥၭမဲၪဆၧ နးမံ ၩ့အ့ ၬ.
I will order him to go tomorrow morning and buy you a horse.
ကိၭမု ဆဲၫ့ ယကအၪ့မၧၫ့ အဝ့ ၫလ့ ၩဎွ ့ၩန့ နၧၩ ၥ့ ၪနးဒု ၩလီၫ.
He came last night because you called him.
လၧနကိၭန့အဝ့ ၫအကၠ ီၩ့ အဝ့ ၫဂဲၫလၧ မု နၩအိၩလီၫ.
I met two elephants on the road this morning.
ကဂီၩယီၩ ယဒၪခီၩ့ ကဆၫ့ၥံ ၪနံၫဒု ၩ လၧဖၧၩ့ၥၭ အဖၧၩ့လီၫ.
He asked me if I saw you yesterday but I said nothing whatever to him.
အဝ့ ၫအၪ့စၪ့ယၧၩ လၧမု ဂၪအိၩ မွဲယဒၪဘၪနၧၩဧၪ, လါနၫ့ ယစံ ၭ အဝ့ ၫနးမံ ၩ့အ့ ၬ.
The pigs under your house make so much noise that I cannot sleep.
ထိၭၥံ ၪ လၧနဂံ ၪ့ဖၫ့လၬနီၪ မၩၥီၫဆၧအၪအၪ ထီးဒၪလ့ ၬ ယမံ ၫလန့ဘၪလီၫ.
Parents should not allow their children to abuse each other.
မိဖါၥံ ၪလဖၪ ကကၨၭ ဖ့ ၪလၫ့အခွ ့းလၧဖိၪၥံ ၪလဖၪ စံ ၭၥိၭလိၬအၥၭ ကဂၩဒဲကဂၩ အ့ ၬ.
All opium-eaters are gamblers.
ၦဖံ းဆါ ထီးအလူၬၥံ ၪနီၪ မွဲ ၦထါဆၧဖိၪလဖၪလီၫ.
A husband who beats his wife cannot love her.
ဝၩကဂၩ လၧအဒိၪအမၫနီၪ အဲၪအဝ့ ၫ ၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ.
The women in Upper Burma carry their baskets on their heads, but in Lower Burma they carry them in their
hands.
ၦမု ၪၥံ ၪခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩထၭလခီၫနီၪ ယု ၩအဒၩ့ၥံ ၪ လၧအခိၪဎွ ံ ၪၥံ ၪ လါနၫ့ ခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩလၬလခီၫ ဆိၬဝ့ ၫ လၧအစူၪၥံ ၪလီၫ.
That man once told me a lie, therefore I do not believe him now.
လၧၦၡၩနီၪ အၪ့လီၩယၧၩ ကကၠၪအကၠ ီၩ့တၭ ဘဲၫယီၩ ယနဲၩအဝ့ ၫအ့ ၬ.
Yesterday I had a head-ache and fever but today I am better.
လၧမု ဂၪနံၩ ယခိၪဎွ ံ ၪယံ ၩ့ဒဲ ယဆူၪဂိၬ လါနၫ့ ကနံၩယီၩ ယကီၫ့ယၫထဲၩ့လီၫ.
I told you to come to Office early but you do not obey my orders.
ယလီၩဘၪနၧၩ ဂဲၫလၧ ရိၩ့ဂီၩဂီၩ လါနၫ့ နခိၭနၪယလူအ့ ၬ.
If you do this work well I shall give you a reward.