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သခီးသၣ်ဖးဒိၣ်ကပုာ်လုး

The Big Juicy Apple

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From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 3.0.

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ထီၣ်ထီဆူမုၢ်အအိၣ် ထီၣ်ထီတုၤအကတၢၢ်

Reaching higher towards the sun, Reaching higher until it's done.

ခဲအံၤကဲထီၣ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်ဖးဒိၣ် အလၢ်လါအိၣ်အါမးအဒ့ရၤလီၤအသးအိၣ်ဖျါလီၤတံၢ်လီီၤ

Now it's a big tree, leafy and green, Spreading it's branches so it can be seen.

အဒ့ဂံၢ်ဘါဆူၣ် ကိၤမးဒီးဂၢၢ်ကျၢၤဝဲ သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်ကဘၣ်သၣ်ထီၣ်လံ အဒ့အိၣ်ကတီၤအသးလၢကသၣ်ထီၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ

The branches are strong now, sturdy and steady, The tree needs some fruit now. The branches are ready.

စးထီၣ်လၢဖီဖးထီၣ် ဝံၤကနဲကဟဲဖီးလီာ်အီၤ ကနဲဟဲဝံၤအလီၢ်ခံသ့ၣ်ကကၠးထီၣ်သၣ်လီၤ

The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.

ယခွဲးခွးဝ့ၢ်ဝီၤယစုဒဲးတခီးသၣ် ဖၢလီၤအီၤလၢဃၤဖးဒိၣ်ပူၤ လၢကအီၣ်အီၤမ့တမ့ၢ်မၤကဲတၢ်ဃ့ၣ်ဆၢ

The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.

တခီးသၣ်မံဂီၤကပုာ်လုးဖျါလီၤအီၣ် အသၣ်ကိပူၤအလွဲၢ်ဘီကပြုၢ်

This juicy, red apple looks delicious and fresh, Inside of the skin is bright yellow flesh.

လ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ထဲတထံၣ် ဆၢကပုာ်လုာ်ဒီးချံၣ် လ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ထဲတထံၣ်ယထူပျ့ၤထံလီၤလီၤ

Just one bite to taste it, sweet, juicy, cool, That one little taste is making me drool!

တခိးသၣ်လၢာ်လံ ယအီၣ်အီၤချ့မး ယကဘၣ်လဲၤထၢကဒီးတဖျၢၣ် ဒီးတမ့ၢ်အကတၢၢ်ဖျၢၣ်ဘၣ်

My apple is finished. I ate it so fast, I must get another, and it won't be my last!

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