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

နအ့ ၪမၩဆၧမၩယီၩဂ့ ၩဂ့ ၩတၭ ယကဖ့ ၪလၫ့နၧၩ အဘိၩ့အလဲၫလီၫ.
If you are lazy and careless with your work, I will fine you.
နအ့ ၪကၠုၪ့ဒဲ နလထု ၪ့လၩ့ဘၪနၥၭ လၧနဆၧမၩတၭ ယကမၩလိၭနၧၩလီၫ.
Your son is very thin; you should feed him well.
နဖိၪခွၫနီၪ ဎွ ့နၭလ့ ၬ န ကကၨၭ ဒု ၭအၪ့ဒု ၭအီၩ အဝ့ ၫ ဂ့ ၩဂ့ ၩလီၫ.
That man is so fat that he cannot walk fast.
ၦၡၩနီၪ ဘီၪ့လ့ ၬ ထီးဒၪအဝ့ ၫဂၭဖၬဖျဲၪဖျဲၪလၥ့ ၪဘၪလီၫ.
EXERCISE VII.
My grandfather is very old; he will not live long.
ယဖူၫနီၪ ၡါနၭလ့ ၬ အဝ့ ၫကအီၪမၧၫ့ယံ ၬယံ ၬလၧၩ့အ့ ၬ.
My grandmother died when she was 85 years old.
ယဖံ ၫၥံ ၫဝ့ ၫဒၪလၧ အၥၭအီၪဎိၭဆံ ၫယဲနံၪ့နီၪလီၫ.
My younger brother is very strong but my younger sister is very weak.
ယဖု ခွၫနီၪ ဆီၪ့နၭလ့ ၬ လါနၫ့ ယဖု ဒ့ ၩမု ၪနီၪ ဆါနၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
How are you related to that man?
နဘူၭလၧၦၡၩအနီၪ ဘဲၫၥ့ ၪလဲၪ.
He is my uncle. He married my father's sister.
အဝ့ ၫမွဲယဖၫထံလီၫ. အဝ့ ၫအီၪဎု ၬလၧ ယဖါအထၧၫ့ဖု ဝဲမု ၪလီၫ.
Why did that man not come when I called him?
ထီးယကိၭန့ၦၡၩနီၪ အဝ့ ၫလဂဲၫဘၪ မွဲဘၪနီၪလဲၪ.
Because he is old and deaf he did not hear you.
လၧအၡါဒဲအနါအၧၩ့ အကၠ ီၩ့တၭ အဝ့ ၫဒၪနါဂၧၫ့နၧၩအ့ ၬ.
I am very thirsty, give me a glass of water.
ယ ၥၭဝံ ထံၫ နၭလ့ ၬ ဖ့ ၪလၫ့အီၩ ယၧၩ ထံၫ နးဘျၧၫ့ဆံ ၭ.
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This well has a good spring and the water in it is very sweet.
ထံၫဖၧၩ့ယီၩ အီၪဒဲထံၫဒ့ ၩဂ့ ၩဒဲထံ ၫ အဖၧၩ့နီၪ အွ ံ ၪဂ့ ၩလ့ ၬလီၫ.
I do not want you because you have come too late.
လၧနဂဲၫယံ ၬနးလၨၪအကၠ ီၩ့တၭ ယမိမၩနၧၩအ့ ၬ.
I hired some Indians to reap my paddy.
ယအၪ့လံၩ ၦခိၪလၩၥၧၫ့ ကနၩ့နၩ့ ကူၭယဘု ၪလီၫ.
In Upper Burma women transplant paddy and the men reap it.
လၧခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩထၭလခီၫနီၪ ၦမု ၪၥံ ၪဘု ၪဖျၬထဲၩ့ဘု ၪ ဒဲၦခွၫၥံ ၪလဖၪကူၭဝ့ ၫလီၫ.
If my crops (paddy) fail this year I shall become very poor.
ကနံၪ့ယီၩယဘု ၪၥံ ၪအ့ ၪ လၩ့အဲၩ ကလၩ့ၡၪ့နၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
I am not at leisure now because I am busy with my fields.
ယဆၧမၩအၪ လၧယဆံၬလးၥံ ၪ တၭ ဘဲၫယီၩ ယချုၭဝါအ့ ၬ.
I want to go to Rangoon for the holidays but I have no money.
လၧဆၧအီၪပွ ံ ၩနံၩလဖၪအခၫ ယမိလ့ ၩ လၧဒိၩ့တခိၩ့ လါနၫ့ ယစ့ ၩအီၪ အ့ ၬ.
You can borrow money in the bazaar.
နအၪ့လီး စ့ ၩလၧဖၠါဖၧၩ့ၥ့ ၪလီၫ.
If you give your fields as security the interest will not be much.
နအ့ ၪဖ့ ၪလၫ့ နဆံ ၬလးၥံ ၪနီၪ ဘဲၫဆၧထိးအၥၭၥိၭတၭ အအ့ ၪကအၪအ့ ၬ.
I will consider what you say.
နစံၭဆၧကမံ ၩ့နီၪ ယကယိဆီၫ့မီၪ့လီၫ.
I have a plantation of plantains and sugarcane.
ယၥၭကျုၩၥၪအီၪ ကဖု ၪဒဲဆံ ၫဖိၭကဝၩ့လီၫ.