သခီးသၣ်ဖးဒိၣ်ကပုာ်လုး
The Big Juicy Apple
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ထီၣ်ထီဆူမုၢ်အအိၣ် ထီၣ်ထီတုၤအကတၢၢ်
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Reaching higher towards the sun, Reaching higher until it's done.
ခဲအံၤကဲထီၣ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်ဖးဒိၣ် အလၢ်လါအိၣ်အါမးအဒ့ရၤလီၤအသးအိၣ်ဖျါလီၤတံၢ်လီီၤ
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Now it's a big tree, leafy and green, Spreading it's branches so it can be seen.
အဒ့ဂံၢ်ဘါဆူၣ် ကိၤမးဒီးဂၢၢ်ကျၢၤဝဲ သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်ကဘၣ်သၣ်ထီၣ်လံ အဒ့အိၣ်ကတီၤအသးလၢကသၣ်ထီၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
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The branches are strong now, sturdy and steady, The tree needs some fruit now. The branches are ready.
စးထီၣ်လၢဖီဖးထီၣ် ဝံၤကနဲကဟဲဖီးလီာ်အီၤ ကနဲဟဲဝံၤအလီၢ်ခံသ့ၣ်ကကၠးထီၣ်သၣ်လီၤ
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The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.
ယခွဲးခွးဝ့ၢ်ဝီၤယစုဒဲးတခီးသၣ် ဖၢလီၤအီၤလၢဃၤဖးဒိၣ်ပူၤ လၢကအီၣ်အီၤမ့တမ့ၢ်မၤကဲတၢ်ဃ့ၣ်ဆၢ
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The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.
တခီးသၣ်မံဂီၤကပုာ်လုးဖျါလီၤအီၣ် အသၣ်ကိပူၤအလွဲၢ်ဘီကပြုၢ်
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This juicy, red apple looks delicious and fresh, Inside of the skin is bright yellow flesh.
လ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ထဲတထံၣ် ဆၢကပုာ်လုာ်ဒီးချံၣ် လ့ၢ်ကွၢ်ထဲတထံၣ်ယထူပျ့ၤထံလီၤလီၤ
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Just one bite to taste it, sweet, juicy, cool, That one little taste is making me drool!
တခိးသၣ်လၢာ်လံ ယအီၣ်အီၤချ့မး ယကဘၣ်လဲၤထၢကဒီးတဖျၢၣ် ဒီးတမ့ၢ်အကတၢၢ်ဖျၢၣ်ဘၣ်
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My apple is finished. I ate it so fast, I must get another, and it won't be my last!
Words in this story
- ထီၣ်ထီhigh
- ဆူto, towards
- မုၢ်sun
- အhis, her, its
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- တုၤto arrive
- အကတၢၢ်end
- ခဲအံၤnow
- ကဲထီၣ်to become
- သ့ၣ်tree
- ထူၣ်lime (mineral)
- ဖးဒိၣ်large
- လါmonth
- အါမးvery much
- ဒ့to play (an instrument)
- လီၤto go down
- သးအိၣ်to want, be interested
- ဖျါto be visible
- ဂံၢ်to count
- ဘါto worship
- ဆူၣ်strong
- ကိၤhard
- မးvery, really
- ဒီးand
- ဂၢၢ်firm, steady
- ကျၢၤfirm
- ကဘၣ်must
- သၣ်ထီၣ်to bear fruit
- လံalready (completed)
- ကတီၤshield
- သးheart
- လၢin, at
- ကwill (future marker)
- န့ၣ်that
- စးထီၣ်to start
- ဖီto cook
- ဖးထီၣ်to hatch
- ဝံၤto finish
- ကနဲhoneybee
- ဟဲto come
- ဖီးdot, point
- အီၤit, him, her
- လီၢ်ခံbehind
- ထီၣ်to go up
- ယI, my
- ခွဲးခွးstir
- ဝ့ၢ်town
- စုhand
- ဒဲးto pluck
- တnot (negative prefix)
- ပူၤhole
- အီၣ်to eat
- မ့ၢ်to be
- မၤto cause
- ကဲcan, to be able
- တၢ်thing
- ဆၢto be sweet
- မံto sleep
- ဂီၤmorning
- အလွဲၢ်colour
- ဘီspear
- ကပြုၢ်to glitter, shine
- ကွၢ်to look
- ထဲonly
- ထံၣ်to see
- ချံၣ်bow (weapon)
- ထူgold
- ပျ့ၤtongue
- ထံwater
- တခိးသၣ်mango
- လၢာ်to be used up
- ချ့quick
- လဲၤto go
- ထၢto gather, pick up
- ကဒီးagain
- ဖျၢၣ်(classifier for round things)
- ဘၣ်to hit
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 3.0.