A manual of the pwo karen dialect
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I was able to shoot <strong>the</strong> leopard and save my follower.<br />
ယခၭခ့ ၫနီၪ ဒဲ မၩဖီၩ့ဖျ ၭ ့ ယၥိၭၥ့ ၪလီၫ.<br />
My friend's bull chased me and tossed me with his horn.<br />
ယထံၩယၥိၭ အချီဖၫထံ လီၩ့ယၧၩ ဒဲ ဘျၧၫ့ယၧၩ လၧအနိၩ့လီၫ.<br />
When bullocks or buffaloes get angry <strong>the</strong>y become very dangerous.<br />
ထီးမွဲချီဖၫၥံ ၪ အ့ ၪလမွဲဘၪ ပနါၥံ ၪ အၥၭခဲၩထၪ့တၭ ကဲၪထၪ့ ဆၧၥၭမဲၪ နၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.<br />
After it has rained 'thamin' cannot run fast because <strong>the</strong>ir feet sink in <strong>the</strong> ground.<br />
ဆၧဆၧၩ့ဂီၩ့အလးခဲၫ့ ၥမၫ့ၥံ ၪလဖၪ စဲၪ့လဖျဲၪဘၪလၧ အခၪ့ၥံ ၪလၩ့ဘၧၩ့ဝ့ ၫလၧ ဖံ ၭဖၧၩ့အကၠ ီၩ့လီၫ.<br />
At that time <strong>the</strong> villagers chase <strong>the</strong>m with dogs and many are killed.<br />
လၧအဆၧၫ့အထီနီၪ ၦတဝၫ့ဖိၪၥံ ၪလဖၪ လီၩ့ဒု ၭ အဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪလၧထွ ံၪလဖၪဒဲ ဘၪဆၧမၩၥံ ၫဝ့ ၫအၪလ့ ၬလီၫ.<br />
If you go out in <strong>the</strong> night with a bright light you can shoot animals very easily.<br />
အ့ ၪ နဂၭထၪ့လၧမု နၩလခီၫလၧမ့ ၪအဆၧဖၩ့တၭ နခၭဆၧဖိၪဆၧဎါၥံ ၪလဖၪ ၥ့ ၪယီၫလ့ ၬလီၫ.<br />
Because <strong>the</strong>y do not understand <strong>the</strong> light and will not run away.<br />
လၧအဝ့ ၫၥံ ၪလဖၪ လနၪၥ့ ၪဘၪ မ့ ၪအဆၧဖၩ့အကၠ ီၩ့ ကစဲၪ့ခွ ံ ၬဝ့ ၫအ့ ၬ.<br />
When do you want to go for a shoot?<br />
ဆၧမိလ့ ၩ ခၭနၥၭဆၧ ဆံ ၭယံ ၬလဲၪ.<br />
Tomorrow morning; wake me very early; we must cross <strong>the</strong> river before <strong>the</strong> sun rises.<br />
ကိၭမု ဆဲၫ့ဂီၩလခီၫ ထိၪဂဲထု ၪ့ ယၧၩ ဂီၩဂီၩလ့ ၬဆံ ၭ, လချုၭ မု မ့ ၬဂဲၫထၪ့ဒံၭဘၪ ပကဘၪ ခၫ့ဂၬ ထံၫချိၬလီၫ.<br />
Tell <strong>the</strong> Thugyi to have a boat and boatmen ready.<br />
လီၩဘၪ စခၩ့လၧ ကတဲၩ့ဝဲၩ ချံၫ ဒဲ ၦၡၩတငၨၭချံၫၥံ ၪလဖၪဆံ ၭ.<br />
That will do; you may return to your village now.<br />
ဘၪယူၭ နထဲၩ့ထဲၩ့လၧ နတဝၫ့ ဘိၩ့နဲၪ့ယီၩၥ့ ၪလီၫ.<br />
(31)SENTENCES.<br />
1. What place do you work now?<br />
ဘိၩ့ယီၩ နမၩဆၧမၩအလးအီၪတခီၫလဲၪ.<br />
2. I am working in <strong>the</strong> big Government building<br />
ဘိၩ့ယီၩ ယမၩဆၧလၧ ၦဒိၪအယံ ၪ့ဖၭဒိၪအဖၧၩ့လီၫ.<br />
3. I have got so many friends, I cannot count <strong>the</strong>m.<br />
ယၥိၭအီၪအၪအၪလ့ ၬ ထီးဒၪ ယဝံလလူၬလၧၩ့ဘၪလီၫ.<br />
4. How many bro<strong>the</strong>rs have you got?<br />
နထၧၫ့ဖု ဝဲအီၪဎွ ့ဂၩလဲၪ.<br />
5. What was his age when he died?<br />
အဝ့ ၫဒၪၥံ ၫအခၫနီၪ အၥၭအီၪဎွ ့နံၪ့ယူၭလဲၪ.<br />
6. He used to be in Burma.<br />
အဝ့ ၫဒၪ အီၪယံ ၩယါလၧခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩအဖၧၩ့လီၫ.<br />
7. He got fever and dysentery.<br />
အဝ့ ၫဘၪန့ ဆၧဆူၪဂိၬဒဲအဂူၭဝံၭလီၫ.<br />
8. I am working here for only one year.<br />
ယမၩဆၧထီးယီၩ မွဲန့ၫလနံၪ့အထးဖၧၩ့လီၫ.<br />
9. After you have finished your work here go?<br />
နမၩဆၧထီးယီၩ အ့ ၪဂီၩ့တၭ နကလ့ ၩတခီၫခီၫလဲၪ.<br />
10. I cannot say but think I will go to Upper Burma.<br />
ယလီၩၥ့ ၪအ့ ၬ လါနၫ့ ယဆီၫ့မီၪ့လၧ ယကလ့ ၩ လၧခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩထၭလခီၫလီၫ.<br />
11. It is very hot in Upper Burma.<br />
လၧခးဒီၩ့ဂိၩထၭလခီၫနီၪ ဆၧခိနၭလ့ ၬလီၫ.<br />
12. Yes, but in <strong>the</strong> cold season it is very cold.<br />
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