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

646. In that place I have never heard of a man losing the road.
လၧဆၧအလးထီးနီၪ ယနါဂၧၫ့ ၦၡၩကဂၩ ဘၪမၪ ဖၧၩ့ၥၭ နးဆိၬအ့ ၬ.
647. Tell Maung Maw Kyi to go and mind the buffaloes.
အၪ့မၧၫ့ စမီၪ့ကၠ ံ ၩ လ့ ၩယူၭ ပနါၥံ ၪဆံ ၭ.
648. Which buffaloes are lost?
ပနါၥံ ၪ လၩ့မါနီၪ မွါ ပနါၥံ ၪ ထၧၫ့ထၧၫ့ဒု ၩလဲၪ.
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649. You are covered with dirt.
န အီၪန့ၫ နကံ ၪ ထၧၫ့ဂၩယၫလီၫ.
650. Put on your coat and button it.
ၥိၭထၪ့ နပလူၬ ဒဲ ထၪ့ဘု ၬထၭ ကၠၫၥၪဆံ ့ ၭ.
651. Who has spat on the floor?
မွဲပလၫ ထိၪဖျံၭ လၧဖု ဒၩအခိၪလဲၪ. မွဲပလၫထိၪဖျံၭလၧၥံ ၪ့ပၪခိၪလဲၪ.
652. I have put it in the corner of the house.
ယအီၪက့ ၪဝ့ ၫ လၧယံ ၪ့အနိၪ့ဖၧၩ့လီၫ.
653. Go and scrub yourself well.
လ့ ၩထူၭလၩ့နၥၭ ဂ့ ၩဂ့ ၩဆံ ၭ.
654. By trading I became rich.
ဆၧမၩဖနံၬအကၠ ီၩ့ ယကဲၪဒိၪကဲၪထီၫလီၫ.
655. But my brother spent all his money.
အ့ ၪမွဲ ယဖု လဂၩ အၪ့လူၬအစ့ ၩထီးအလူၬလီၫ.
656. I paid the expenses of his journey.
ယဖ့ ၪလၫ့ စ့ ၩ လၧအဝ့ ၫဒၪလူၬ အဆၧလ့ ၩအဂးလီၫ.
657. He took his axe & knife and went into the jungle to cut firewood.
အဝ့ ၫ လ့ ၩဆိၬအဎ့ ၬအကွၩ ဒဲ လ့ ၩဖ့ ၬ ၥံ ၪ့မု လၧမံ ၩ့လၬကျၩလီၫ.
658. I sold my paddy but got no profit.
ယအၪ့ဆၫ ယဘု ၪ လါနၫ့ ယန့ဘၪအထိၬနၫအ့ ၬ.
659. How much interest do you get on your money?
နစ့ ၩအဂး န န့ဘၪ အအ့ ၪ ဆံ ၭအၪလဲၪ.
660. He carried away everything he could.
ထီးဒၪ အဝ့ ၫ ထဲၩ့ဆိၬန့ၥ့ ၪနီၪ ထဲၩ့ဆိၬဝ့ ၫဒၪလီၫ.
661. In our village there are a lot of _thamin_ and sambhur.
လၧပတဝၫ့အဖၧၩ့နီၪ, ၥမၫ့, ဆၧဎီၩၥံ ၪလဖၪ အီၪ အၪအၪလ့ ၬလီၫ.
662. When we were sitting near the fire at night, a tiger came & carried off a man.
ထီး ပဆၧၫ့နၩ့အီၪ လၧမ့ ၪအနဲၩ့ထံၭ လၧမု နၩလခီၫ, ဘီၪမု ကဒု ၩ ဂဲၫအဲၪ့ဆိၬ ၦကဂၩလီၫ.
663. How many cubits was it?
အီၪ ဎွ ့ဖျါလဲၪ.
664. I did not measure by cubits but by feet. It was 8 feet in length.
ယထိၪယိဘၪ လၧအဖျါအ့ ၬ, လါနၫ့ လၧအပ့ ၪလီၫ. အထီၫအီၪ ဎိၭပ့ ၪလီၫ.
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665. The tiger killed a father, mother & child.
ဘီၪမု အဲၪ့ၥံ ၫ အဖါကဂၩ အမိဒဲအဖိၪခွၫ ၥၧၫ့ဂၩလူၬလီၫ.
666. What time does your school close in the evening?
လၧမု ဂၪလၩ့လခီၫ နဆၧမၩလိၪဖျါ အဆၧၫ့အထီ ဎွ ့နၩရံ ၩလဲၪ.
667. If a man buys a house now, 10 years hence he will get a big price.
အ့ ၪ ၦလဂၩ အၪ့ဎွ ့ၩယံ ၪ့လဖျိၪ့ဘဲၫယီၩ လၧခဲၫ့ ဆံ ၫနံၪ့နီၪ ကန့ဘၪ အဎွ ့ၩအၪအၪလ့ ၬလီၫ.
668. I will return again.
ယကထဲၩ့ခလူၬ.