A manual of the pwo karen dialect

For a collection of persons or animals. ဝၩ့ //e.g. An association. ဆၧအီၪကီၪ့ကဝၩ့
For plots of ground ကဝၩ့ //e.g. a field ဆံ ၬကဝၩ့
For places လး //e.g. a garden ဎု ၬကလး
For felled logs ကု ၭ //e.g. a log of wood ၥံ ၪ့ကကု ၭ
For felled trees ဖု ၫ //e.g. a teak log ပယံ ၪကဖု ၫ
For sides of things ခီၫ //e.g. two legs ခၪ့နံၫခီၫ
For conveyances ခိၪ //e.g. three carts လဲၪ့ၥံ ၪၥၧၫ့ခိၪ
For recurrent things ဆၫ့ //e.g. a verse of the song ဆၧၥၭအွ ံ ၪအပူၭကဆၫ့
For words မီၫ့ //e.g. two words ဆၧချဲၩ့နံၫမီၫ့
For flowers ဖၭ //e.g. three flowers ဖီၫၥၧၫ့ဖၭ
For apertures or openings ဖၧၩ့ //e.g. four windows တရၫ့လံဖၧၩ့
For an indefinite number မံ ၩ့ //e.g. any name မံ ၩ့ကမံ ၩ့မံ ၩ့
For songs or poems ယွ ့ //e.g. three hymns ဆၧၥၭအွ ံ ၪၥၧၫ့ယွ ့
For a term, or time ထီ //e.g. four seasons အထီလံထီ
For names. ဖျိၪ့ //e.g. four names မံ ၩ့လံ ဖျိၪ့
RULE 15. The word နး is used sometimes for the numeral လ or က, thus
One book လံၬနးဘံ ၪ့
One loaf ကိၪနးဘံ ၪ့
One coat ပလူၬနးဘံ ၪ့
One patso ၡၫ့နးဘံ ၪ့
Also it may be used in a negative sense, thus,
Not a little နးဆံၭအ့ ၬ
Never နးကၠၪအ့ ၬ -- နးဆိၬအ့ ၬ
RULE 16. (1) Completeness is expressed by placing a noun or numeral between ထၧၫ့ and ယၫ
The whole book လံၬထၧၫ့ဘံ ၪ့ယၫ
The whole country ခးထၧၫ့ခးယၫ
The entire road ဖၧၩ့ၥၭထၧၫ့ဘီၩ့ယၫ
The whole time အဆၧၫ့အထီ ထၧၫ့ထီယၫ
The whole earth ဂၪ့ခိၪ ထၧၫ့ဖျိၪ့ယၫ
(2) A complete number may be expressed by affixing လူၬ to any one of the ordinal numerals.
Both men ၦၡၩၥံ ၪ နံၫဂၩလူၬ
All three men ၦၡၩၥံ ၪ ၥၧၫ့ဂၩလူၬ
All three boats ချံၫၥံ ၪ ၥၧၫ့ဖျိၪ့လူၬ
All three houses ယံ ၪ့ၥံ ၪ ၥၧၫ့ဖျိၪ့လူၬ
All three horses ကၥ့ ၪၥံ ၪ ၥၧၫ့ဒု ၩလူၬ
All three carts လဲၪ့ၥံ ၪ ၥၧၫ့ခိၪလူၬ
(3) The numeral, က, _one_, with a reduplicated numeral affix is used in referring indefinitely to one person or
thing.
Some man ၦၡၩကဂၩဂၩ
Some elephants ကဆၫ့ၥံ ၪ ကဒု ၩဒု ၩ
Some fowls ဆၫ့ၥံ ၪ ကဘံ ၪ့ဘံ ၪ့
Some books လံၬၥံ ၪ ကဘံ ၪ့ဘံ ၪ့
Some houses ယံ ၪ့ၥံ ၪ ကဖျိၪ့ဖျိၪ့
Some trees ၥံ ၪ့ၥံ ၪ ကထံၭထံၭ
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