တၢ်လီၤမၢ်ဒီးဃုထံၣ်က့ၤဝဲ

တအိၣ်လၢလီၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤခိၣ်ဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢကၠုၣ်ဖီလၣ်ဘၣ်

Not on the sofa. Not under the cot.

တအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ဒၢပူၤဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢယပုၢ်မုၣ်အဆ့ဖီလၣ်ဘၣ်

Not in the box. Not under my sister's frock.

တအိၣ်လၢခုဒုခၢၣ်အဖီလၣ်ဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢယထၢၣ်ပူၤဘၣ် ဧု ဧု မ့ၢ်အလီၤမၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်

Not under the pillow. Not in my bag. Sob, sob, where have you gone?

ယဃုလၢယဒၢးပူၤကိးဆူးဒဲး ယဃုအိးထီၣ်ယလံာ်ကိးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲး

I have looked in every room, l have looked under every book.

ယဃုကွၢ်လၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီခိၣ် ဒီးလၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီလာ် လီၤမၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်

I have looked under the chair, I have looked under the stool. Where have you gone?

တယံာ်ဘၣ်ဒီးယဖံဟဲက့ၤလၢအတၢ်ဟးလိၢ်ကွဲ "ကွၢ်လၢန့ၣ်ယဖံတိကီၣ်မတၤတမံၤလၢကရၢၢ်ပူၤလဲၣ်"

Soon granny came back from her walk. "Look what I found in the park."

"အကွံလီၤသ့ အခွ့ထီၣ်ခွ့လီၤသ့ အတရံးသးသ့ ဘျးလီၤစဲဟူးဝးသ့ ဟးဟါ ဟံးဟံး"ယဖံနံၤထီၣ် ခံးခံး န့ၣ်လီၤ

"It can sway, it can bounce. It can spin, it can dangle. Ha-ha, hee-hee," said Granny with a giggle.

အိ ယဖံဧၢ! ယစံးဘျုးနၤဒိၣ်မးလီၤ! ယဖံထံၣ်န့ၢ်က့ၤယၤ ယယိ- ယိး လၢယအဲၣ်ဒိၣ်မးလံန့ၣ်လီၤ

Oh Granny! Thank you so much! You have found my dear yo-yo!

"ယိ-ယိး န့ၣ် အမံၤလီၤနံၤဒိၣ်မး! ပ၈ဲၤလိၢ်ကွဲဲအီၤမုာ်ဒိၣ်မးန့ၣ်လီၤ!

"Yo-yo? What a funny name! What a funny toy! I want to play with it, It gives me so much joy!"

ခံးခံး ခံးခံး နံၤသီၣ်ခံးခး ယဖံဂဲၤယတၢ်လိၢ်ကွဲဒီတနံၤညါလီၤ!

Giggle, giggle, giggling away, Granny played, with my little toy. For the rest of the day!