ယတံၤသကိး
My Friends
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တနီၤနီၤအနံၣ်အိၣ်အါ ဒီး
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Some of my friends are older and...
တနီၤအနံၣ်အိၣ်စှၤန့ၢ်ယၤ
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Some of them are younger than me.
တနီၤန့ၣ်မ့ၤပှၤသးပှၢ်
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Some of my friends are old.
တနီၤအိၣ်ဒီးအနီၣ်ဆံး
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And some of them are tiny!
တနီၤအိၣ်ဒီးအမဲၢ်
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Some of my friends have tails.
တနီၤအခီၣ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ်
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Some of my friends have no feet.
တနီၤယူၤသ့ တနီၤပီၢ််ထံသ့
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Some of my friends fly. Some of them swim.
အိ!လံၥ်မ့ၢ််စ့ၢ််ကီးယတံၤသကိးလီၤ
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Oh! Books are my friends too!
နသ့ၣ်ညါစ့ၢ်ကီးဧါ မတၤလၢအမ့ၢ်ယတံၤသကိးအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်? တဂၤလဲၣ်? တဂၤလဲၣ် ? တဂၤလဲၣ်?
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But who is my best friend? Who? Who? Who?
မ့ၢ်ဝဲဒၣ်ယမိၢ်လီၤ.
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My mother!!!
Words in this story
- တနီၤsome
- နီၤsome
- အhis, her, its
- နံၣ်year
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- အါto be many
- ဒီးand
- စှၤန့ၢ်less
- ယၤme
- န့ၣ်that
- မ့ၤrice (cooked)
- ပှၤperson
- သးheart
- ပှၢ်to be old (of people)
- အိၣ်ဒီးto have
- နီၣ်drive
- ဆံးto be small
- မဲၢ်tail
- ခီၣ်leg
- တnot (negative prefix)
- ဘၣ်to hit
- ယူၤto fly
- သ့to wash
- ထံwater
- အိoh
- နyou, your
- သ့ၣ်ညါto know
- စ့ၢ်ကီးalso
- ဧါ(yes/no question particle)
- မတၤwho
- လၢin, at
- မ့ၢ်to be
- ယI, my
- တံၤသကိးfriend
- ဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်best
- ဂၤ(classifier for people)
- မိၢ်mother
- လီၤto go down
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.