လိၢ်ကွဲမုာ်အဆၢကတီၢ်
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အဝဲသ့ၣ်လိာ်ကွဲသကိး မုၢ်အိၣ်ဝဲတနံၤန့ၣ် ကိလူကွဲးမုာ်ဝဲဒၣ် "တနံၤညါအံၤပကလိာ်ကွဲက့မ်လၢအသီတမံံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ
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They played together. One day, Golu said, “Let’s play a new game today.”
"နဲဒၣ်န့ၣ် နဘၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ယဲယကယူၤလီၤလၢနချၢဃံ" ဆိထူတဲဘၣ် ကိလူဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ဆိထူတခွ့ထီၣ်ခီၣ်ဖးထီ
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“You sit down. I’ll land on your back in one flying leap,” said Chhotu. Golu sat down. Chhotu took a mighty leap.
တုၢ်! ဆိထူခွ့လီၤလၢကိလူအချၢဃံ "ဝီးဧူၤ" ကိလူနံၤဝဲဒၣ်ဝံၤဒီးတဲဝဲ "ယၤဒီးနီၢ် နဲနဘၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ဒီးယကခွ့လီၤလၢနချၢဃံတထံၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီး"
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Thump! Chhotu landed on Golu’s back. “Wow!” laughed Golu. “My turn now. You sit down and I will leap on your back.”
"နၤနုၤ" "မ့ၢ်,ယၤအံၤလီၤ" "နကမၤဒ်လဲၣ်" ဆိထူသံကွၢ်ဝဲ
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“You?” asked Chhotu. “Yes, me,” said Golu. “How can you do that?” asked Chhotu.
"ဒ်အံၤယၢၣ်" ကိိလူမၤ မၢအကွၢ်
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"Like this!" Golu showed him.
တူၢ် တူၢ် တူၢ် ဃီၤသၣ်အါဖျၢၣ်လီၤတဲာ်ဘၣ်ကိလူအခိၣ်သၣ်
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Thud… thud… thud… A shower of coconuts came down on Golu’s head.
ကိလူပျံၤဝဲဒီးစံၣ်ကွံာ်ဝဲ အခီၣ်ဘီၣ်လဲၤတူာ်လူာ်ဆူဘးန့ၣ်
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Golu ran away scared.
ဃီသၣ်ဆံး လီၤတဲာ်ဘၣ်ဆိထူအခိၣ်သၣ်
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One small coconut fell on Chhotu.
‘ကိညၢ်ဒံး ဆိထူဆိမိၣ်’ ‘ဃီသၣ်လီၤတဲာ်ဘၣ်န့ၣ် ဂ့ၤန့ၢ်ကဆီလီၤတဲာ်ဘၣ်ခိၣ်သၣ်!’
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<em>That’s better</em>, thought Chhotu, <em>Better a coconut than an elephant on my head!</em>
Words in this story
- အဝဲသ့ၣ်they
- လိာ်ကွဲto play
- သကိးfriend
- မုၢ်sun
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- တnot (negative prefix)
- နံၤday
- န့ၣ်that
- ကွဲးto write
- မုာ်pleasant
- အံၤthis
- ပwe, our
- ကwill (future marker)
- လၢin, at
- အသီnew
- လီၤto go down
- နyou, your
- ဘၣ်to hit
- ဆ့ၣ်နီၤto sit
- ယI, my
- ယူၤto fly
- ချၢဃံback (of the body)
- ဆိfirst, early
- ထူgold
- တဲto tell
- ထီၣ်to go up
- ခီၣ်leg
- ဖးထီvery tall
- အချၢoutside
- ဃံbone
- ဝံၤဒီးand then
- ယၤme
- ဒီးand
- နီၢ်body; self
- ထံၣ်to see
- စ့ၢ်ကီးalso
- နၤnight
- မ့ၢ်to be
- မၤto cause
- ဒ်လဲၣ်how
- သံကွၢ်to ask
- ဒ်အံၤlike this
- မၢto send
- အhis, her, its
- ကွၢ်to look
- တူၢ်to endure
- ဃီၤcoconut
- အါto be many
- ဖျၢၣ်(classifier for round things)
- လီၤတဲာ်to fall off
- ခိၣ်head
- ပျံၤrope
- စံၣ်jump
- ကွံာ်to throw
- ဘီၣ်to be fat
- လဲၤto go
- ဆူto, towards
- ဃီladder
- ဆံးto be small
- ကိညၢ်to be relieved
- ဒံးstill
- ဂ့ၤgood
- န့ၢ်to get
- ကဆီelephant
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.