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

80. He cut his neck.
အဝ့ ၫကူၭထ့ ၬအခိၭလီၫ.
81. I sentence the accused to thirty stripes.
ယ စ့ ၩရၫ့စၪ ၦဘၪန့အမူၭ လၧ အကဘၪဒိၪအထု ၪၥၧၫ့ဆံ ၫလီၫ.
82. People say when the moon is full it will rain.
ၦၡၩ လီၩဝ့ ၫ လၩအ့ ၪဎွ ့ၩခိၬ@ ဆၧကဆၧၩ့လီၫ.
83. Is not the water in the river salt?
ထံၫလၧထံၫမိၪၡါအဖၧၩ့နီၪ ဂၪ့အ့ ၬဧၪ.
84. When the tide comes up (flood tide) it is salt; when it does down (ebb tide) it is not.
ထီး ထံၫဂဲၫထၪ့နီၪ ဂၪ့ဝ့ ၫ လါနၫ့ ထီး ထံၫထဲၩ့လၩ့နီၪ ဂၪ့အ့ ၬ.
85. They have to drink bad water. The people at throw corpses into the river.
အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪဘၪအီၩ ထံၫလၧအလဂ့ ၩဘၪလီၫ. ၦၡၩခွ ံ ၬလၩ့ ၦအၥံ ၫစွၪ လၧထံၫခံ ၫနီၪလီၫ.
86. All the wells have dried up.
ထံၫဖၧၩ့ ကိၭဖၧၩ့ဒ့ ၭ ဎဲၫ့ထ့ ၬခွ ံ ၬဝ့ ၫလီၫ.
87. Once when I was in Upper Burma making roads I had 400 coolies, all of us had to drink out of one well.
ကကၠၪထီးယအီၪလၧခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩထၭလခီၫနီၪ ထီးယဖိၭလိၬ@@ဖၧၩ့ၥၭ ယကူၫလံၫအီၪ ၄၀၀ ပဘၪအီၩထံၫလၧထံ ၫဖၧၩ့ ကဖၧၩ့ဎး ထီးအလူၬလီၫ.
(37) 88. This morning it is very cold.
ကဂီၩယီၩ ဆၧၡူၪနၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
89. In Sagaing there is a bitter lake.
လၧစကဲၩ့နီၪ, ကမၫ, အခၪအီၪ, ကကမၫ, လီၫ.
90. I cannot find out.
ယအၪ့ဎၬန့အ့ ၬ.
91. Have they sown their paddy?
အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪဎွ ံ ၪလၩ့ဘု ၪယူၭဧၪ.
92. Yes, and they have reaped it also.
မွဲ, အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪ ကူၭဝ့ ၫဆ့ လီၫ.
93. Europeans do not believe in the existence of witches.
ၦခိၪလၩဘွၩ နဲၩဝ့ ၫလၧ ၦအယူၬအီၪနီၪဆ့ အ့ ၬ.
94. Here, if it is hot, you can go and sleep outside.
ထီးယီၩဆၧအ့ ၪခိတၭ နလ့ ၩထၪ့မံ ၫလၧခီၫ့လခီၫၥ့ ၪလီၫ.
95. The dew falls at night but if you sleep in the centre, much dew cannot fall on you.
ဆၩ့လၩ့လၧမု နၩလခီၫလီၫ. လါနၫ့ နအ့ ၪမံ ၫလၧအၥၭကျၩနီၪတၭ, ဎွ ံ ၪဘၪနၧၩ အၪအၪၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ.
96. I cannot name it in Karen.
ယကိၭအမံ ၩ့လၧဖျိၩ့လခီၫဘၪအ့ ၬ.
97. Cannot the Karens name flowers? The Burmans name all flowers.
ၦဖျိၩ့ၡိ ကိၭ, ဖီၫလဖၪအမံ ၩ့ၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬဧၪ. ဒီၩ့ဂိၩဖိၪၥံ ၪကိၭ, ဖီၫလဖၪအမံ ၩ့ၥ့ ၪထီးအလူၬလီၫ.
98. None of the fruits of Burma grow in England.
ဆၧၥၪလဖၪလၧဒီၩ့ဂိၩခးယီၩ ကဲၪထၪ့ လၧခးအံ ၩ့ဂလၫ့နီၪ နးမံ ၩ့အ့ ၬ.
99. In Burma there are several names of plantains but in England there is only one name.
လၧခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩနီၪ ၥၭကျုၩၥၪအမံ ၩ့အီၪတဘျုၭမံ ၩ့လီၫ. အ့ ၪမွဲလၧခးအံ ၩ့ဂလၫ့နီၪ အမံ ၩ့အီၪမွဲန့ၫလမံ ၩ့လီၫ.
100. The men are planting paddy.
ၦၡၩလဖၪ @ၥၧၫ့လၩ့ဘု ၪလီၫ.
101. I saw plantains in Mogok, but when snow fell they were all shrivelled up.
ယဒၪဘၪၥၭကျုၩၥၪလၧမိၩကူၭ လါနၫ့ ထီးမူၭခိၪဖီၫလၩ့တၭ ဎဲၫ့ထၬခွ ံ ၬထီးအလူၬလီၫ.
102. There are not many villages.
တဝၫ့လဖၪအီၪအၪအၪအ့ ၬ. တဝၫ့လဖၪအီၪၡၩခိၭလီၫ.
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103. The barber has come; I must be shaved.