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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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