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

နလ့ ၩ တခီၫခီၫလဲၪ.
810. What is the difference between a steamer and a railway?
လဲၪ့မ့ ၪ ဒဲ ကဘၩ့မ့ ၪနီၪ လၩ့ဆၫ့လိၭအၥၭ ဘဲၫၥ့ ၪလဲၪ.
811. From the commencement of your service how much money have you saved?
စၭထၪ့ လၧနမၩဆၧမၩနီၪ နဖၭက့ ၪကီၪ့ စ့ ၩ န့ဆံ ၭအၪလဲၪ.
812. Why have you not called your follower?
မွဲဘၪနီၪ နလဂဲၫကိၭန့ဘၪ နၥိၭလဲၪ.
813. Which of these places do you like?
ဆၧအလးလဖၪယီၩ မု ၬနၥၭ တခီၫခီၫလဲၪ.
814. Amongst fishes, which is the biggest fish?
လၧယၪလဖၪအကျၩ မွဲ ယၪ ပလၫဎိၩထု ၬလဲၪ.
815. The elephant is the biggest in the jungle (the outside).
လၧခီၫ့လခီၫနီၪ ကဆၫ့မွဲအဎိၩထု ၬလီၫ.
816. Nowadays children mostly like to eat lobsters.
ဘဲၫနးမု ၪယီၩ ဖိၪဒံၩဖိၪၥၪၥံ ၪ အၪဒၪဆၧ အဲၪအၪ့ ၥဒၫ့ခီၩ့လီၫ.
817. The red scorpion & black scorpion bite men very severely.
ဆၧကဲၫ့မ့ ဒဲ ထံၭဘၩ့ဆွ ့ၪနီၪ အဲၪ့ ၦၡၩဆၫ နၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.
818. The fell disease ('Samaraw') and plague are causes for fear.
ဆၧဆၫမရီၪ ဒဲ ဆၧဆၫပလံၭနီၪ မွဲမၬ ဆၧလၩ့ၥၭမဲၪအလးလီၫ.
819. Of the 'dhanni' leaf and 'thekket,' which is water-proof?
ဒနံၭအလၪ ဒဲ ယံ ၩလၪနီၪ, ထိးဆၧဆၧၩ့ထံၫ, တခီၫခီၫလဲၪ.
820. In the Church the Preacher beseeches God that every man may be of good health.
လၧကဆါယွၩအဂံ ၪ့လဖျိၪ့အဖၧၩ့နီၪ ဆရၫအၪ့ကံ ၩ့ယွၩ ဘဲၫၥိၭၦကိၭဂၩဒ့ ၭ ကအီၪဆီၪ့အီၪချဲၫ့လီၫ.
821. Men plant paddy and afterwards they must reap it.
ၦၡၩၥံ ၪလဖၪ ၥု ၪ့ဘု ၪ ဒဲ ထီးအထု ၬနီၪ ကဘၪ ကူၭထဲၩ့ဝ့ ၫလီၫ.
822. Are there frogs, fish and crabs in the sea?
လၧပၪ့လဲၪဖၧၩ့နီၪ, ဒ့ ၪ, ယၪ, ဆွ ့ၪ လဖၪ ဘၪကအီၪဆ့ ဧၪ.
823. Men use the doorian fruit & the lime in different ways.
ဒူရၩၥၪ ့ ဒဲ စၩ့ြပၩၥၪနီၪ ၦၡၩၥံ ၪ ၥိၩ့ဝ့ ၫလဂၩ လမံၩ့လီၫ.
824. Why do you speak against (oppose) me?
မွဲဘၪနီၪ နချဲၩ့ဆၧၫ့ ယၧၩလဲၪ.
825. Take care; don't speak like that again.
ထီးလၩ့နၥၭ, ထီးခိၬခဲၫ့ ချဲၩ့ဆၧ ဘဲၫနီၪအၥိၭ လဂ့ ၩ.
826. There is a bird whose voice is very sweet, but whose egg is acid.
ထိၪဖိၪအီၪလဘံ ၪ့နီၪ အလူမု ၬနၭလ့ ၬ လါနၫ့ အဒံၪနီၪ ဆဲၫ့လီၫ.
827. Some Churches of Christ have sprung up in Burma.
ဎရံ ၬဖိၪ အၥရိၬ အီၪထၪ့ တဘျုၭဖျိၪ့ လၧခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩအဖၧၩ့ယူၭလီၫ.
828. Work in this world is what God makes us do.
ဆၧဖံ ၭဆၧမၩ လၧဂၪ့ခိၪချိၫ့ယီၩနီၪ မွဲ ယွၩဒု ၭမၩပၧၩလီၫ.
829. Health is God's work (care).
ဆၧအီၪဆီၪ့အီၪချဲၫ့နီၪ မွဲ ယွၩဆၧဖံ ၭဆၧမၩလီၫ.
830. Greed generally causes man to fall.
ဆၧလၧ ဆၧၥၭကွ ံ ၩ ဆၧကမံ ၩ့နီၪ အၪဒၪဆၧ ဒု ၭလၩ့ထံၩဖါ ၦၩ@လီၫ.
831. Land for which a 'potta' is obtained should be marked out in the same manner as land hired.
ဂၪ့ခိၪလၧအထိးန့ ပၭတၪလဖၪနီၪ, ဘၪခွ ံ ၬလၩ့ ဆၧထီးနဲၪ့ ဘဲၫၥိၭဂၪ့ခိၪလၧဘၪဆၧအၪ့လံၩ့ဝ့ ၫအၥိၭ နီၪလီၫ.
832. Amongst all the Commandments Love is the greatest.
လၧဆၧမၪလူၬ ထီးအလူၬအကျၩ ဆၧအဲၪဆၧကွ ံ ၩ အဒိၪထု ၬလီၫ.
833. How deep can you fix a stick into the ground?