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သၣ်မံညီၤလၢအကဆှီ

Clean Cat

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ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်လၢဟံၣ်ပူၤမ့ၢ်ဝဲယဂီၢ် မ့ၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢပှၤဟုလၣ်န့ၣ်ဂ့ၤတက့ၢ်ဧါ?

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The best chair in the house is for me. But sitting on the lap is even better, isn’t it?

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ရှံနၢ်မ့ၢ်ယတံၤသကိးလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ် ယအိၣ်ခိးရှံနၢ်ဖဲအကၠိစံၣ်လီၤအဆၢကတီၢ်လီၤ

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Cheena is my best friend. I wait for her to return from school.

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ယမၤကဆှီယသးသ့ဒီးတဘၣ်သူဘၣ်ထံဘၣ် ယတဘၣ်လုၢ်ထံဒ်သိး ထီမံၣ် ဘၣ်

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I keep myself clean without water. I do not need a bath like Tommy.

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ဆူဧူး ......... တဘၣ်တဲဘၣ်ပှၤဂၤလၢယအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်ဖဲအံၤဘၣ် ၁ ... ၂... ၃..... တၢ်!

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Shhh... don’t tell anyone that I am hiding here. 1. ..2. ..3. ..Got you!

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ယမိၢ်ဒူယၤ ဖဲယဟဲစိာ်တၢ်အီၣ်လၢကရၢၢ်ပူၤ

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Ma shouts at me, when I bring some tasty food from the garden.

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ယထီၣ်သ့ၣ်သ့ ယဖုသ့ ဒီးယသ့ၣ်ညါကျဲစၢၢ်လိဖဲအံၤခဲလၢာ်န့ၣ်လီၤ

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I can climb trees. I can jump. I know all the short cuts here.

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စၤကၠူ အိၣ်ဟံၣ်ဘူးဒီးယၤ အဝဲဂဲၤကလံးယၤ မၤသးဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ယၤမုာ်မး

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Sanju lives nearby. He teases me. It makes me very angry.

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ဝံသးစူၤတဲဘၣ် စၤကၠူ လၢ ဘီၣ်သိၣ်မ့ၢ်ဝဲသၣ်မံညီၤအဒူၣ်အထၢ ပအိၣ်ဒီးစုမ့ၣ်လၢအစူဒိၣ်မးလီၤ

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Please tell Sanju that the tiger is from our cat family. We have sharp claws.

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ဘၣ်တဘျီဘျီယတံၤသကိး ကိးလူကိးဖှးလၢမုၢ်နၤခါ ဖဲန့ၣ်အဆၢကတီၢ်ယမံယဲဘှ့ၣ်ဘှ့ၣ်ဘှီၣ်ဘှီၣ်လီၤ

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My friends sometimes make a lot of noise at night. By then I am quietly in bed.

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မဲၢ်လၢကတိၤတၢ်သ့! မ့ၢ်နသ့ၣ်ညါဧါ လၢဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိအကလုာ်ဒီးထိၣ်န့ၣ်တဲပှၤတၢ်သ့ခီဖျိလၢသူဝဲအမဲၢ် ထွံၣ်န့ၣ်ကမၤဟူးဝးဒၣ်အမဲၢ် ဖဲတၢ်ကကဲထီၣ်သးဒီးအီၤတမံၤမံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ သၣ်မံညီန့ၣ်ကဘိးထီၣ်အမဲၢ်ဖဲလၢအသးဒိၣ်တၢ်အခါလီၤ အါဘျီပတဲလၢသၣ်မံကညီၤအဲၣ်တၢ်ကဆှီ မ့ၢ်လၢအဝဲတအဲၣ်ထံအါအါဘၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒီးအဝဲမၤကဆှီအသးခီဖျိလ့ၣ်ကဆှီအသးလၢအပျ့ၤန့ၣ်လီၤ

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Tails can speak! Did you know how animals and birds tell us something by using their tails? A dog wags its tail when it is happy. A cat puffs up its tail when it is angry. Often we say, "As clean as a cat". This is because cats do not like water, yet they are always keeping themselves clean by licking themselves.

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From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.