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

န ဆ့ ၭလၩ့ နီၪခု ၪ လၧဂၪ့ခိၪအဖၧၩ့နီၪ ဖၭယိၬဧၪ.
834. If you read any book can you understand it?
နအ့ ၪဖီလံၬလဘံ ၪ့ဂ့ ၩလဘံ ၪ့ဂ့ ၩ ဘၪနနၪကၥ့ ၪဆ့ ဧၪ.
835. Because there are many kinds of soil it is hard for us to distinguish them.
ဂၪ့ခိၪလဖၪ အီၪအၪမံ ၩ့အကၠ ီၩ့ ကၪ လၧပကအၪ့နၩ့ဖၭအဂးလီၫ.
836. Those who mark the words of the Prophets in this book are blessed.
ၦလၧအထီးန့@ဖံ ၭထၬ မီၪလဖၪအလူ လၧလံၬအဖၧၩ့ယီၩ ဘၪဆိၪဂ့ ၩဝ့ ၫလီၫ.
837. Used you to make bread sometimes?
နမၩအၪ့ ယု ၩယါ ကိၪလဖၪ, ဘၪကကၠၪကၠၪဆ့ ဧၪ.
838. Can you do whatever work you wish to do?
ဆၧဖံ ၭဆၧမၩ မွဲဘၪနၥၭ လၧနမိမၩနီၪ, နမၩဘၪဆ့ ဧၪ.
839. The miracles are blessed.
ၦလၧအဘၪထိး ဆၧၡၪ့ဆၧနၭလဖၪနီၪ ဘၪဆိၪဂ့ ၩဝ့ ၫလီၫ.
840. I tell thee truly thou shalt be born again.
ယလီၩဘၪနၧၩ တီၩတီၩယီၩ နကဘၪအီၪဖျဲၪဒီၭ နံၫဖၧၫ့လဖၧၫ့လီၫ.
841. Why have you become a disciple?
မွဲဘၪနီၪ နကဲၪထၪ့ အထံၩအဖျဲလဲၪ.
842. For this reason that the Son of God suffered Himself to die for me.
အဂဲးဘဲၫယီၩ ယွၩကဆါအဖိၪခွၫ ထိးၥံ ၫအၥၭ လၧယဂးအကၠ ီၩ့လီၫ.
843. When you die where will you go (reach)?
အ့ ၪနၥံ ၫ နကထီၩ့ တခီၫခီၫလဲၪ.
844. When I die I will go (reach) to the Kingdom of Heaven.
ယအ့ ၪၥံ ၫ ကထီၩ့ လၧမူၭခိၪအဘၩ့အမု းအဖၧၩ့လီၫ.
845. We should worship our God and listen to His word.
ယွၩပကဆါနီၪ ပဘၪဘိၪ့ထၪ့ဘၩထၪ့ ဒဲ ပဘၪ ခိၭနၪအလူဆ့ လီၫ.
846. The price of an umbrella in Rangoon is Rs 3.
စီၩ့ကခိၪ လၧဝံးတခိၩ့နီၪ အဎွ ့ၩမွဲ ၥၧၫ့ဘၭဖၧၩ့လီၫ.
847. Because the work is hard I should try and do it till I understand it thoroughly.
ဆၧဖံ ၭဆၧမၩ ကၪအကၠ ီၩ့ ယကျၭစၨၭမၩ ့ ယဝ့ ၫ ထီးယနၪၥ့ ၪထၪ့ဂ့ ၩဂ့ ၩလီၫ.
848. I hear that in Tharrawaddy and Henzada more than 300 men have died of diarrhoea and plague.
ယနါဂၧၫ့ လၧၥၪရၪဝဒံၫ ဒဲ ဝံးဟၫ့ကထၭနီၪ, ၦဘၪဂူၭလ့ ၩ ဒဲ ဘၪဆၧဆၫပလံၭအကၠ ီၩ့ ၥံ ၫဝ့ ၫ ၥၧၫ့ယၩ အဘျဲၪလီၫ.
849. Coming back buy me an umbrella, a patso, a gaungbaung and a blanket.
ဂဲၫထဲၩ့ ဎွ ့ၩန့အ့ ၪယၧၩ စီၩ့လခိၪ ၡၫ့လဘံ ၪ့ ခိၪဖၧၫ့လဘံ ၪ့ ဒဲ ဖၬဘဲၩ့လဘံ ၪ့ဆံ ၭ.
850. Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.
ကဲၪ, အၪ့ၡီၩ့ အီၩၡီၩ့ဆံ ၭ, အဂဲးဘဲၫယီၩ ကဲၫဂီၩခိၬ ပမိၥံ ၫလီၫ.
851. As time went on he got worse.
ဒံၩ့ယံ ၬဒံၩ့ဆၫ နၭထၪ့လခီၫလီၫ.
852. When did you ever see that?
နဒၪဘၪ ဘဲၫနီၪအၥိၭ ဎွ ့ဆိၬလဲၪ.
853. Some house-posts were rotten & some not seasoned, there was no nice place.
ဂံ ၪ့ထု ၪ့ အု ၪလနၩ့ အၥံ ၫ့လနၩ့တၭ, အလးမု ၬအီၪ နးစီၪ့အ့ ၬ.
854. When I was in the hills I got fever very badly and had to go away on leave.
ထီးယအီၪလၧခိၪလီၩ့ခိၪအခၫနီၪ ယဘၪဆၧဆူၪဂိၬ နၭလ့ ၬအကၠ ီၩ့ ယဘၪထဲၩ့ထဲၩ့ လၧဆၧအီၪပွ ံ ၩ@အဂးလီၫ.
855. Where is your father? နဖါ အီၪတခီၫလဲၪ.
856. What is your father's name? နဖါ အမံ ၩ့ ဘဲၫၥ့ ၪလဲၪ.
857. Have you got a wife? နမၫ အီၪယူၭဧၪ.
858. Have you got any children? နဖိၪ အီၪ ကနၩ့နၩ့ဆ့ ဧၪ.
859. I have got one girl and one boy.