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

ယစ့ ၩ အီၪ လၧစ့ ၩတၨၭအဖၧၩ့ ကနၩ့နၩ့လီၫ.
623. He lives in a valley.
အဝ့ ၫအီၪ လၧခိၪလီၩ့အဆူၭအဖၧၩ့လီၫ.
624. He is a very uncivilized man.
အဝ့ ၫမွဲ ၦလၧအယဲၩ့အစဲၩ့ကဂၩလီၫ.
625. Why did you frighten the dog?
မွဲဘၪနီၪ နမၩၥၭမဲၪ ထွ ံၪလဲၪ. မွဲဘၪနီၪ န မၩတု ၩ့ ထွ ံၪ လဲၪ.
626. They are not successful.
အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪ မၩဆၧ လၧၫ့ထၪ့ဎွ ့ၩထၪ့န့အ့ ၬ. အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪ မၩဆၧကဲၪထၪ့ထီၫထၪ့န့အ့ ၬ.
627. In a short time he will become a Myo-ok, and afterwards will get promotion.
လယံ ၬဘၪ အဝ့ ၫကကဲၪထၪ့ မၠ ိၭအူၭ ဒဲ လၧခဲၫ့ခီၫ ကန့ဘၪ အလးကဆၫ့ဘၪကဆၫ့လီၫ.
628. Are they married?
အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪ ထၪ့ၡါယူၭဧၪ.
629. Is your son full grown?
နဖိၪခွၫဖိၪၥၪခွၫထၪ့ လူၬယူၭဧၪ.
630. Is he a widower?
အဝ့ ၫမွဲ ၦၡၩမဲၪဧၪ.
631. Is it further than one mile?
ဖၭထဲၩ့ နဲၪ့ဒံၭ ကတု ၩ့ဧၪ. ယဲၩ့ယိၬ နဲၪ့ဒံၭ ကတု ၩ့ဧၪ.
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632. My office is two miles distant.
ယဆၧမၩအလးအီၪ ယဲၩ့ဝ့ ၫဒၪ နံၫတု ၩ့လီၫ.
633. Both my ponies have won races.
ယကၥ့ ၪနံၫဒု ၩလူၬ နၧၩ့ ဆၧြပၧၩ့လဖၪ ယူၭလီၫ.
634. When did you come back to your house?
နဂဲၫထဲၩ့ထီၩ့ လၧနယံ ၪ့ ဆံ ၭယံ ၬယူၭလဲၪ.
635. They are gardeners.
အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪ မၩဎု ၬလီၫ.
636. I have heard about my examination; it will take place next month.
ယနါဂၧၫ့ယူၭ ယဆၧဒိၭစ့ ၭအဂဲးယူၭ ကမွဲ လၩနးဘံ ၪ့ဒီၭလီၫ.
637. How can I say?
ယချဲၩ့ဆၧ ကၥ့ ၪ ဘဲၫၥ့ ၪလဲၪ.
638. Please bring me a glass of water.
အွ ံ ၪၥၭဆၧၩ့ ဂဲၫဆိၬယၧၩ ထံၫနးခွၭလါဆံ ၭ. အွ ံ ၪၥၭဆၧၩ့ ဂဲၫဆိၬယၧၩ ထံၫနးဘျၧၫ့လါဆံ ၭ.
639. I have finished sewing it long ago.
ယဆၬဂီၩ့ ယံ ၬယံ ၬလ့ ၬယူၭလီၫ.
640. There is no fire in the fire-place.
လၧဖံ ၫ့ချၪအဖၧၩ့နီၪ မ့ ၪအီၪအ့ ၬ.
641. Blow up the fire for me.
အူၪခဲၪထၪ့ မ့ ၪ လၧယဂးဆံ ၭ.
642. I alone can cook the rice.
ယ အၪ့ဖီၫ့ မ့ ၩ န့ၫ ယၧၩကဂၩလီၫ.
643. I can cook only the rice.
ယ အၪ့ဖီၫ့ ၥ့ ၪ န့ၫ မ့ ၩလီၫ.
644. Go and put it on the fire (for cooking).
ထဲၩ့ဒီၩ့ @လၪ့ထဲၩ့ဆံ ၭ. ထဲၩ့ဒီၩ့ ထၪ့ဆံ ၭ.
645. When cooked take it off the fire.
ထီးအၪ့ဖီၫ့ဂီၩ့တၭ ဆိၬလၩ့ခွ ံ ၬ လၧမ့ ၪအဖၩ့ခိၪဆံ ၭ.