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

ယလ့ ၩယိ ၦစၧၩ့ၥံ ၫစၪၥံ ၫ့ လၧအမၩၥံ ၫအမၫအကၠ ီၩ့ ယနံၭနးကဆံ ၭလီၫ.
352. I do not know; we had to remain outside & did not enter the jail.
ယၥ့ ၪယၫအ့ ၬ ပဘၪအီၪထးလၧခီၫ့လခီၫ ဒဲ ပလ့ ၩနု ၬဘၪ လၧထီၫ့ဖၧၩ့ အ့ ၬ.
353. We are not allowed to enter.
ပန့ဘၪ အလူအထၫ လၧပကနု ၬအ့ ၬ.
354. For the past two or three days it has not rained much.
လၧအဖီၩ့ခွ ံ ၬ နံၫၥၧၫ့ၥၫ့ ဆၧဆၧၩ့အၪအၪအ့ ၬ.
355. I do not know what the English custom is, but according to the Burmese custom, a man who has been
hanged, if his relations wish to take his corpse back to his village the other villagers won't receive it.
လၧခိၪလၩဘွၩအလၨၩအလါလခီၫ ယၥ့ ၪယၫအ့ ၬ, လါနၫ့ အ့ ၪမွဲဒီၩ့ဂိၩအလၨၩအလါလခီၫ ၦလၧအဘၪဆၧစၧၩ့ၥံ ၫ ဘဲၫနီၪၥိၭ အဘူၭအထံးအ့ ၪမိထဲၩ့ဆိၬ
အစွၪ လၧတဝၫ့ဖၧၩ့နီၪ တဝၫ့ဖိၪအဂူၫဂၩထိးအ့ ၬ.
356. A man who has committed suicide, his body is not buried in the cemetery. In the same way little children
who have not been baptised are not buried in the cemetery.
ၦလၧအမၩၥံ ၫလၩ့အၥၭနီၪ အစွၪဘၪ ဘၧၩ့လၩ့လၧဆၧၥွၪခိၪအဖၧၩ့ အ့ ၬ, ဘဲၫနီၪၥိၭ ဖိၪၥၪအဆံ ၭလၧအလဘၪဆၧဒိၭဘၧၩ့လၩ့ အၥၭဒံၭဘၪနီၪ
ဘၪဘၧၩ့လၩ့ လၧဆၧၥွၪခိၪအဖၧၩ့အ့ ၬ.
357. Because you are a Baptist you receive baptism when you ask for it and when you can understand.
နမွဲၦဘၧၩ့ထံၫဖိၪအကၠ ီၩ့ နန့ဘၪ ဆၧဒိၭဘၧၩ့လၩ့အၥၭ ထီးနအၪ့ကံ ၩ့ဝ့ ၫ ဒဲ ထီးနနၪၥ့ ၪအခီၫပယီၫအခၫလီၫ.
358. I am a Protestant.
ယမွဲ ၦဎွ ံ ၪထံၫ.
359. Is he a Baptist or a Roman Catholic?
အဝ့ ၫမွဲ ၦဘၧၩ့ထံၫဧၪ, အ့ ၪလမွဲဘၪ ၦဖရံ ၩ့ကၠ ံ ၫလဲၪ.
360. I cannot see much difference in the religions.
ဆၧဘၩလဖၪ အဆၧလၩ့ဆၫ့ ယဒၪဘၪအၪအၪအ့ ၬ.
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361. Unroll the paper.
ပၠၪလၩ့ထဲၩ့ စၭခီၫဆံ ၭ.
362. We exercise our hands and feet. (Lit. "unroll" (the muscles)).
ပပၠၪလၩ့ထဲၩ့ ပစူၪပခၪ့ၥံ ၪလဖၪလီၫ.
363. Today is a holiday.
ကနံၩယီၩ မွဲ ဆၧအီၪပွ ံ ၭအနံၩလီၫ.
364. I have heard nothing of the first European Phoongyi who used to live here.
လၧအခၪ့ထံၭ ၥၫ့ခၫခိၪလၩဘွၩ လၧအအီၪထီးယီၩ ကဂၩ ယနါဂၧၫ့ အဂဲး နးမံ ၩ့အ့ ၬ.
365. The Burmese Elders did not believe him but most of the ignorant Burmans rejoiced greatly.
ဒီၩ့ဂိၩ ၦအၥု ၪ့က့ ၭၥၭၡါလဖၪနီၪ နဲၩဝ့ ၫအ့ ၬ လါနၫ့ ဒီၩ့ဂိၩ လၧအလၥ့ ၪယၫဘၪဆၧ အၪအၪလဖၪနီၪ ၥု ၪ့ဎွ ံ ၫၥၭယီၫ နၭနၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
366. If his friends meet him they call him into the house and give him liquor to drink.
အဝ့ ၫအၥိၭလဖၪ အ့ ၪဒၪခီၩ့ဝ့ ၫတၭ အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪ ကိၭနု ၬအဝ့ ၫ လၧယံ ၪ့ဖၧၩ့ ဒု ၭအီၩအဝ့ ၫ ဂၬထံ ၫလီၫ.
367. The Government should expell him from the country. He makes great mischief here.
ၦဒိၪၥံ ၪ ကကၨၭနၪ့ထၪ့ခွ ံ ၬ အဝ့ ၫလၧခးဖၧၩ့လီၫ. ထီးယီၩ အဝ့ ၫမၩမၪဆၧ အၪလ့ ၬလီၫ.
368. When you came I was fast asleep.
ထီး နဂဲၫထီၩ့အခၫ ယမံ ၫမၪလီၫ.
369. The boat upset.
ချံၫ လၩ့ချုၬလီၫ.
370. Many gentlemen dived in but they could not find his corpse.
ကဆါတဘျုၭဂၩ ယု ၭလၩ့လၧထံၫကျၩ လါနၫ့ အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪဒၪန့အစွၪၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ.
371. Is the water very deep there?
ထံၫထီးနီၪ ယိၬလ့ ၬဧၪ.
372. Not so very deep. I think he must have stuck in the weeds.
ယိၬ ဖိၭဘိၭနီၪအ့ ၬ, ယဆီၫ့မီၪ့ အဝ့ ၫ ဘု ၭထၬလၧၥွၫကျၩလီၫ.