ယတံၤသကိးလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်
My Best Friend
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ဖဲယသူၣ်ခုသးခုအခါန့ၣ် အဝဲသူၣ်ခုသးခုစ့ၢ်ကီး
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When I am happy, so is she.
ဖဲယဟီၣ်အခါ အဝဲဟီၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
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When I cry, she cries too.
ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယတနၢ်ဟူအကလုၢ်ဘၣ် မ့ၢ်လၢအဝဲအိၣ်လၢမဲာ်ထံကလၤအပူၤလီၤ
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But I cannot hear her voice. My friend lives inside the mirror.
"ဟဲထီၣ်မီၤ" ယတဲယသကိး "ပကလိၣ်ကွဲသကိး" ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အဝဲတဟဲထီၣ်ဘၣ်
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"Come out," I tell her, "we will play." She does not come out.
ယသးတမုာ်ဘၣ် ဒီးယက့ၤမံလီၤ
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I am not happy. I go to sleep.
အဝဲဟဲထီၣ်လၢမဲာ်ထံကလၤအပူၤဖဲယမံအခါ ဒီးပလိၣ်ကွဲသကိးလၢတၢ်သးဖှံလီၤ
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She comes out of the mirror in my sleep! And we have fun.
ပလိၣ်ကွဲ ပဃ့ၢ်ထီၣ်ဃ့ၢ်လီၤ ပကိးပသူထီၣ်သကိးလီၤ
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We play, we run, we shout and scream together.
ဖဲယကတိၤတၢ်ဒီးအီၤ အဝဲကတိၤတၢ်ဒီးယၤ
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When I talk to her, she also talks to me.
ဖဲမုၢ်ဆ့ၣ်ထီၣ် ယတံၤသကိးက့ၤနုာ်က့ၤဆူမဲာ်ထံကလၤအပူၤလီၤ
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In the morning, my friend will go back into the mirror.
ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တဘၣ်တၢ်နီတမံၤဘၣ် ပကလိၣ်ကွဲသကိးဒံးလၢယတၢ်မံမီၢ်အပူၤလီၤ
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But I don't mind at all. We will play again in my dreams!
Words in this story
- ဖဲnecklace
- ယI, my
- သူၣ်ခုသးခုglad
- အခါwhen, while
- န့ၣ်that
- အဝဲhe, she
- စ့ၢ်ကီးalso
- ဟီၣ်to cry
- လီၤto go down
- ဘၣ်ဆၣ်but
- တနၢ်harp
- ဟူto be heard, to hear
- အhis, her, its
- ကလုၢ်voice, word
- ဘၣ်to hit
- မ့ၢ်လၢbecause
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- လၢin, at
- မဲာ်ထံကလၤmirror
- အပူၤinside
- ဟဲထီၣ်to come up
- မီၤto bark
- တဲto tell
- သကိးfriend
- ပwe, our
- ကwill (future marker)
- ကွဲbee
- တnot (negative prefix)
- သးheart
- မုာ်pleasant
- ဒီးand
- က့ၤto return
- မံလီၤto lie down
- မံto sleep
- တၢ်thing
- သးဖှံto be happy
- ဃ့ၢ်to run
- ထီၣ်to go up
- ကိးပသူto shout
- ကတိၤတၢ်talk
- အီၤit, him, her
- ယၤme
- မုၢ်sun
- တံၤသကိးfriend
- နုာ်to enter
- ဆူto, towards
- နီpalace
- မံၤname
- ဒံးstill
- ယတၢ်mine
- မံမီၢ်to dream
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.