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?
ရှံနၢ်မ့ၢ်ယတံၤသကိးလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ် ယအိၣ်ခိးရှံနၢ်ဖဲအကၠိစံၣ်လီၤအဆၢကတီၢ်လီၤ
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Cheena is my best friend. I wait for her to return from school.
ယမၤကဆှီယသးသ့ဒီးတဘၣ်သူဘၣ်ထံဘၣ် ယတဘၣ်လုၢ်ထံဒ်သိး ထီမံၣ် ဘၣ်
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I keep myself clean without water. I do not need a bath like Tommy.
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!
ယမိၢ်ဒူယၤ ဖဲယဟဲစိာ်တၢ်အီၣ်လၢကရၢၢ်ပူၤ
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Ma shouts at me, when I bring some tasty food from the garden.
ယထီၣ်သ့ၣ်သ့ ယဖုသ့ ဒီးယသ့ၣ်ညါကျဲစၢၢ်လိဖဲအံၤခဲလၢာ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
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I can climb trees. I can jump. I know all the short cuts here.
စၤကၠူ အိၣ်ဟံၣ်ဘူးဒီးယၤ အဝဲဂဲၤကလံးယၤ မၤသးဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ယၤမုာ်မး
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Sanju lives nearby. He teases me. It makes me very angry.
ဝံသးစူၤတဲဘၣ် စၤကၠူ လၢ ဘီၣ်သိၣ်မ့ၢ်ဝဲသၣ်မံညီၤအဒူၣ်အထၢ ပအိၣ်ဒီးစုမ့ၣ်လၢအစူဒိၣ်မးလီၤ
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Please tell Sanju that the tiger is from our cat family. We have sharp claws.
ဘၣ်တဘျီဘျီယတံၤသကိး ကိးလူကိးဖှးလၢမုၢ်နၤခါ ဖဲန့ၣ်အဆၢကတီၢ်ယမံယဲဘှ့ၣ်ဘှ့ၣ်ဘှီၣ်ဘှီၣ်လီၤ
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My friends sometimes make a lot of noise at night. By then I am quietly in bed.
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.
Words in this story
- ဆ့ၣ်နီၤto sit
- လၢin, at
- အhis, her, its
- ဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်best
- ဟံၣ်house
- ပူၤhole
- မ့ၢ်to be
- ယI, my
- ဂီၢ်for the sake of
- ပှၤperson
- ဟုrice (husked, uncooked)
- လၣ်leaf
- န့ၣ်that
- ဂ့ၤgood
- တnot (negative prefix)
- ဧါ(yes/no question particle)
- နၢ်ear
- တံၤသကိးfriend
- အိၣ်ခိးto wait
- ဖဲnecklace
- ကၠိschool
- စံၣ်လီၤto jump down
- ဆၢto be sweet
- ကတီၢ်period of time, term
- လီၤto go down
- မၤto cause
- ကဆှီto be clean
- သးheart
- သ့to wash
- ဒီးand
- ဘၣ်to hit
- သူto use
- ထံwater
- လုၢ်ထံto bathe
- ဒ်သိးlike, as
- ထီto be tall
- ဆူto, towards
- တဲto tell
- ဂၤ(classifier for people)
- အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်to hide
- ဖဲအံၤhere
- တၢ်thing
- မိၢ်mother
- ဒူbrave
- ယၤme
- ဟဲစိာ်to bring
- တၢ်အီၣ်food
- ကရၢၢ်yard, enclosure
- ထီၣ်to go up
- သ့ၣ်tree
- ဖုgrandfather
- သ့ၣ်ညါto know
- ကျဲway
- စၢၢ်lead (metal)
- ခဲလၢာ်all
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- ဘူးto be near
- အဝဲhe, she
- ဂဲၤto move
- ကwill (future marker)
- သးဒိၣ်angry
- မုာ်pleasant
- မးvery, really
- ဝံသးစူၤplease
- ဘီၣ်သိၣ်tiger
- သၣ်မံညီၤcat
- ဒူၣ်(classifier for households); tribe
- ထၢto gather, pick up
- ပwe, our
- အိၣ်ဒီးto have
- စုမ့ၣ်claw
- စူsharp, pointed
- ဒိၣ်to be big
- တဘျီonce
- ဘျီ(classifier for times)
- ကိးto call
- မုၢ်နၤnight
- ခါstep, pace
- ဖဲန့ၣ်there
- မံto sleep
- ဘှ့ၣ်fog
- မဲၢ်tail
- ကတိၤတၢ်talk
- နyou, your
- ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိanimal
- ကလုာ်kind, type
- ထိၣ်bird
- ခီside
- ဖျိthrough
- ထွံၣ်dog
- ဟူးဝးto shake
- ကဲထီၣ်to become
- အီၤit, him, her
- မံၤname
- ညီeasy
- အခါwhen, while
- အါto be many
- ကညီၤgrowl
- အဲၣ်to love
- မ့ၢ်လၢbecause
- ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒီးbut, however
- လ့ၣ်cart
- ပျ့ၤtongue
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.