A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect Author: Charles Harry Duffin * A ...
A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect Author: Charles Harry Duffin * A ...
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219. The very day I arrived I went on board <strong>the</strong> steamer.<br />
ကနံၩဎး လၧယထီၩ့ ယထူၬထၪ့ ကဘၩ့မ့ ၪလီၫ.<br />
220. Now it mostly rains at night.<br />
ဘဲၫယီၩ ဆၧဆၧၩ့ အၪဒၪဆၧ လၧ မု နၩလခီၫလီၫ.<br />
221. The child is crying so much that I am quite confused.<br />
ဖိၪၥၪဂၪ့ ထီးဒၪလ့ ၬ ယၥၭ ဘံ ၪဘူၪ လီၫ.<br />
222. In a very short time I shall return.<br />
လၧဖျၭကလၬအထးဖၧၩ့ ယကဂဲၫထဲၩ့လီၫ.<br />
223. Yesterday <strong>the</strong> gentleman for whom you got a teacher came to me and told me that his teacher could not<br />
tell him <strong>the</strong> meaning <strong>of</strong> words.<br />
လၧမု ဂၪနံၩ ကဆါလဂၩ လၧနမၩန့ယူၭ ဆရၫလဂၩလၧအဂးနီၪ ဂဲၫလၧယအီၪ ဒဲ လီၩဘၪယၧၩ လၧအဆရၫနီၪ<br />
လီၩဘၪအဆၧချဲၩ့လဖၪအခီၫပယီၫဘၪအ့ ၬ.<br />
224. It is very difficult to teach a gentleman. A man who is not used to teaching cannot teach.<br />
ၦဒု ၭနဲၪကဆါၥံ ၪအလံၬနီၪ ကၪနၭလ့ ၬ ၦလၧအဒု ၭနဲၪ ယံ ၩယါဘၪနီၪ ဒု ၭနဲၪဝ့ ၫ လီးၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ.<br />
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225. The gentleman is bad tempered.<br />
ကဆါနီၪ အၥၭဖု ၫလီၫ.<br />
226. He has got no patience.<br />
အဝ့ ၫအဆၧၥၭဆၧၩ့ အီၪအ့ ၬ.<br />
227. I will ask <strong>the</strong> teachers who teach in <strong>the</strong> Sgau schools whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>y have time to teach in <strong>the</strong> morning.<br />
ယကအၪ့စၪ့ ဆရၫၥံ ၪလၧအဒု ၭနဲၪဆၧ လၧဖါထံ ၭအဆၧမၩလိၪအလးနီၪ လၧအဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪဒု ၭနဲၪလၧဂီၩလခီၫချုၭဧၪ.<br />
228. If he does not understand everything it does matter.<br />
အ့ ၪအဝ့ ၫနၪလၥ့ ၪဘၪ ထီးအလူၬနီၪ အတွၭအီၪအ့ ၬ.@@<br />
229. He can learn languages very quickly.<br />
အဝ့ ၫ မၩလိၪ ၦၡၩအလၨ ၥ့ ၪဖျဲၪလ့ ၬလီၫ.<br />
230. He is very thin but I hope that before long he will get fat.<br />
အဝ့ ၫဎွ ့နၭလ့ ၬ လါနၫ့ ယဆိၫ့လယံ ၬဘၪ ကဘီၪ့ထၪ့လီၫ.<br />
231. He is very weak at present but will get strong before long.<br />
ဘိၩ့ယီၩ အဝ့ ၫအဂဲးဆါနၭလ့ ၬ လါနၫ့ လယံ ၬဘၪ အဝ့ ၫ အဂဲးကဆီၪ့ထၪ့လီၫ.<br />
232. I will fight for you.<br />
ယကဒု ၭဆၧၩ့ လၧနဂးလီၫ.<br />
233. You must mark what I say.<br />
ယချဲၩ့ဆၧနီၪ နဘၪယိနဲၪ့လီၫ.<br />
234. You must bear in mind and remember what I say.<br />
ယချဲၩ့ဆၧနီၪ နကဘၪထီးန့ဖံ ၭထၬလီၫ.<br />
235. That is a stone building.<br />
အဝ့ ၫမွဲ တၨၭကဖျိၪ့လီၫ.<br />
236. The times do not agree.<br />
ဆၧအဆၧၫ့အထီ ဘၪဖူၫလိၭအၥၭအ့ ၬ.<br />
237. It won't do.<br />
ဘၪကၭအ့ ၬ.<br />
238. The child is now with his grandfa<strong>the</strong>r and grandmo<strong>the</strong>r.<br />
ဖိၪၥၪနီၪ ဘိၩ့ယီၩ အီၪလၧ အဖူၫအဖံ ၫအၥိၭလီၫ.<br />
239. What has happened to <strong>the</strong> case in which a Chinaman killed his wife?<br />
ဆၧအမူၭလၧအဘၪဆဲၫ့ တရူ ၭလၧအမၩၥံ ၫ အၥိၭလဂၩနီၪ မွဲအကဲၪထၪ့ ဘဲၫၥ့ ၪလဲၪ.<br />
240. I have not yet had an answer.<br />
ယန့ဘၪဒံၭ ဆၧစံၭဆၧၫ့ အ့ ၬ.<br />
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