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

ယကွ ့ၭလီၩဘၪယူၭအဝ့ ၫကကၠၪ ဒဲ ထီးအဝ့ ၫထီၩ့နီၪ ယကလီၩဘၪ အဝ့ ၫဆ့ လီၫ.
396. I may perhaps be examined at Bassein but I cannot say for certain.
ဘၪလဘၪ ယကဘၪဆၧဒိၭစ့ ၭ လၧဒိၩ့ပၥံ ၫ့နီၪ လါနၫ့ ယလီၩဘၪ လၩ့ထံးလၩ့ဆ့ ၭ ၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ.
397. In your place of work are men who wish to work as apprentices received?
လၧနမၩဆၧမၩအလးနီၪ ၦအ့ ၪမိမၩပျီၩအၥၭဆၧမၩနီၪ အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪဘၪ ကထိးဆၧၫ့ဧၪ.
398. Yes, in my office there are many apprentices.
မွဲယမၩဆၧမၩအလးနီၪ ၦမၩပျီၩဆၧဖိၪၥံ ၪ အီၪအၪဂၩလီၫ.
399. Do you wish to put him into the Police?
နမိဒု ၭနု ၬနၥၭ အဝ့ ၫလၧပလံၭဖၧၩ့ဆ့ ဧၪ.
400. All right, if he wishes to work in the Police Office, tell him to come to my Office.
ဂ့ ၩယူၭ အဝ့ ၫအ့ ၪမိမၩဘၪအၥၭ ဆၧမၩလၧပလံၭ အဆၧမၩအလးဖၧၩ့
အၪ့မၧၫ့အဝ့ ၫဂဲၫလၧယဆၧမၩအလးနီၪဆံၭ.
401. We cannot say. It is his luck.
ပလီၩဘၪၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ အဆၧဘိၫ့ဒၪဝ့ ၫလီၫ.
402. He is an Interpreter.
အဝ့ ၫမွဲ ၦလၧအလီၩကျိၭဆၧကဂၩလီၫ.
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403. My young brother once worked under Government as an apprentice but before long on account of his good
work, his superiors gave him pay.
ယဖု ဒ့ ၩအကကၠၪလ့ ၩမၩဆၧ လၧၦဒိၪအဆၧမၩအဖၧၩ့ မၩပျီၩဝ့ ၫ လယံ ၬဘၪ မွဲလၧအဆၧမၩဂ့ ၩအကၠ ီၩ့ ၦလၧအဖၫ့ခိၪၥံ ၪ ဖ့ ၪလၫ့ အလံၩ့လီၫ.
404. Coughing up blood is a bad disease.
ဆၧကူၭလၩ့ပၥွ ံ ၪနီၪ မွဲဆၧဆၫအအၧၩ့လီၫ.
405. That man has got a cough.
ၦၡၩနီၪ ဘၪဆၧကူၭလီၫ.
406. My elder sister had consumption but now she is quite cured.
ယဝဲမု ၪကဂၩ ဘၪဆၧကူၭပၥွ ံ ၪ လါနၫ့ ဘဲၫယီၩ အဝ့ ၫဘျၪထဲၩ့ ဂ့ ၩဘၪစဲၪလီၫ.
407. The person about whom I spoke to you just now, can I send him to you today?
ၦလၧယလီၩဘၪနၧၩအဂဲးဘိၩ့ယီၩနီၪ ယၥိၫ့စိၩ လၧနအီၪ ကနံၩယီၩၥ့ ၪဧၪ.
408. I am sorry my words have been premature.
ယၥၭအု ၭ လၧယဆၧချဲၩ့ဖျီးအကၠ ီၩ့လီၫ.
409. He must be a clever man.
အဝ့ ၫကမွဲ ၦလၧအကိၪ့ဆၧၥ့ ၪကဂၩလီၫ.
410. Some of the Shan letters are very different from Burmese.
ၥဲၫ့အလံၬဖျိၪ့နီၪ ကနၩ့နၩ့ လၩ့ဆၫ့ဒဲ ဒီၩ့ဂိၩအလံၬဖျိၪ့ နၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
411. What is the matter?
မွဲဘၪနီၪလဲၪ. -- မွဲဘၪနီၪနီၪလဲၪ. -- ဘၪနီၪနီၪလဲၪ.
412. Buy me a pair of earrings.
ဎွ ့ၩန့ယၧၩ နါဒံၭ ကဆီၫ့ဆံ ၭ.
413. Now you tell me that the time to go up for your examination is not far distant.
ဘိၩ့ယီၩ နလီၩဘၪယၧၩ လၧနကဘၪလ့ ၩထိးအၪ့စၪ့နၥၭ အဆၧၫ့အထီနီၪ အီၪယံ ၬလၧၩ့အ့ ၬ.
414. When will you arrive there?
နကထီၩ့ လၧအိၩ ဆံ ၭယံ ၬလဲၪ.
415. If you go by a big steamer there is little comfort.
အ့ ၪ နထူၭထၪ့ ကဘၩ့မ့ ၪဖၭဒိၪနီၪ ကဂ့ ၩကဘွၩ ကဆံ ၭဆံ ၭလီၫ.
416. The papers which they will give me they must send to the Lieutenant Governor (biggest Official) for
approval.
စၭခီၫၥံ ၪလဖၪ လၧအဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪ ကဖ့ ၪလၫ့ ယၧၩနီၪ အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪ ကဘၪၥိၫ့စိၩဝ့ ၫ လၧၦဒိၪအဒိၪထု ၬအအီၪ လၧအဝ့ ၫကယိထဲၩ့အဂးလီၫ.
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