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

36. There are more Pwos than Sgaus in Bassein.
လၧဒိၩ့ပၥံ ၪ့အဖၧၩ့နီၪ မိထံၭ အီၪအၪနဲၪ့ဒံၭ ဖါထံၭလီၫ.
37. Here, you have to go by steamer to Moulmein, afterwards by road.
ထီးယီၩ နကဘၪထူၭထၪ့ကဘၩ့ ထီၩ့အထီၩ့လၧမီၫလမၠဲၫ့ဂီၩ့ နကဘၪလ့ ၩလၧခီၫ့လခီၫလီၫ.
38. Did you go by water or land?
နလ့ ၩ လၧခီၫ့လခီၫ လမွဲဘၪ လၧထံၫလခီၫလဲၪ.
39. Yesterday while I was coming on the road, people threw water on me so that I had to return.
လၧယဂဲၫဖၧၩ့ၥၭ အဘိၩ့ဘၭ ၦၡၩၥံ ၪၡီၫ့ယၧၩဒဲထံၫအကၠ ီၩ့ ယဘၪထဲၩ့ထဲၩ့လီၫ.
40. I think that a Pwo-Karen teacher who lives there will question you and talk to you, after which the
Commissioner will look over your papers.
ယဆီၫ့မီၪ့ မိထံၭဆရၫလၧ အအီၪထီးနီၪ ကအၪ့စၪ့နၧၩ ဒဲ ကချဲၩ့ဒု ၪ့နၧၩဂီၩ့ စၭခီၫၥံ ၪလဖၪနီၪ ၦဒိၪဖၭဒိၪ ကယိထဲၩ့လီၫ.
41. He has been there a month.
အဝ့ ၫအီၪ ထီးနီၪ လၩကဘံ ၪ့လီၫ.
42. That is why I have sent her away.
အခိးမွဲ ယၥိၫ့ခွ ံ ၬအဝ့ ၫလီၫ.
43. It is very hot.
ဆၧခိအွ ံ ၩ နၭနၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
44. In the day time a little breeze blows, but at night there is no breeze.
လၧမု ဆၫလခီၫ လံၩဂဲၫကဆံ ၭဆံ ၭ လါနၫ့ လၧမု နၩလခီၫ လံၩဂဲၫနးဆံ ၭအ့ ၬ.
45. I cannot reach there.
ယထီၩ့စိၩ ထီးနီၪ ၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ.
46. I cannot reach that.
ယထၪ့ဘၪၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ.
(34) 47. I cannot reach down.
ယထီၩ့လၩ့စိၩ ၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ.
48. Men should not abuse each other.
ၦၡၩၥံ ၪ ဘၪစံ ၭၥၭလိၬအၥၭအ့ ၬ.
49. Maung Pho owes me money; he won't pay me.
မီၫ့ဖိၩအၪ့လီးယစ့ ၩ, အဝ့ ၫဖ့ ၪထဲၩ့ယၧၩအ့ ၬ.
50. When does the steamer leave?
ကဘၩ့မ့ ၪ စဲၪ့ထၪ့ ဆံ ၭယံ ၬလဲၪ.
51. If you go in a launch by Twante, you will arrive early.
အ့ ၪ နထူၭထၪ့ကဘၩ့ဖိၪလၧအလ့ ၩ လၧတဝၫ့ထု အဖၧၩ့ၥၭနီၪ နကထီၩ့ဂီၩလီၫ.
52. I have never been to the Delta.
ယထီၩ့လၧ ထံၫထၪနးဆိၬအ့ ၬ.
53. How many days journey is it?
နဘၪလ့ ၩ ဖၧၩ့ၥၭ ဎွ ့ၥၫ့ လဲၪ.
54. Up to now it has not rained once.
ခီၩ့ဘိၩ့နဲၪ့ယီၩ ဆၧဆၧၩ့နးကၠၪဒံၭအ့ ၬ.
55. When it rains it will become much cooler.
ထီးအ့ ၪ ဆၧဆၧၩ့ ဆၧကချံၫ့အၪထၪ့လီၫ.
56. Every year by this time it has rained once or twice.
ကိၭနံၪ့ဒ့ ၭ ဆၧအခၫယီၩ ဆၧဆၧၩ့ကကၠၪနံၫကၠၪယူၭလီၫ.
57. In Moulmein owing to there being a scarcity of water, there is much cholera, and several people have died.
လၧဝံးမီၫလမၠဲၫ့အဖၧၩ့ ထံၫ@@ခါနၭလ့ ၬအကၠ ီၩ့ ဆၧဆၫဖျဲၪအီၪအၪအၪ ၥံ ၫတဘျုၭဂၩလီၫ.
58. When the mangoes are ripe.
ထီး ခိၭၥၪ မံ ၫ့အခၫ
59. He became an Officer.