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ယတံၤသကိး
My Friends
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From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.
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တနီၤနီၤအနံၣ်အိၣ်အါ ဒီး
Some of my friends are older and...
တနီၤအနံၣ်အိၣ်စှၤန့ၢ်ယၤ
Some of them are younger than me.
တနီၤန့ၣ်မ့ၤပှၤသးပှၢ်
Some of my friends are old.
တနီၤအိၣ်ဒီးအနီၣ်ဆံး
And some of them are tiny!
တနီၤအိၣ်ဒီးအမဲၢ်
Some of my friends have tails.
တနီၤအခီၣ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ်
Some of my friends have no feet.
တနီၤယူၤသ့ တနီၤပီၢ််ထံသ့
Some of my friends fly. Some of them swim.
အိ!လံၥ်မ့ၢ််စ့ၢ််ကီးယတံၤသကိးလီၤ
Oh! Books are my friends too!
နသ့ၣ်ညါစ့ၢ်ကီးဧါ မတၤလၢအမ့ၢ်ယတံၤသကိးအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်? တဂၤလဲၣ်? တဂၤလဲၣ် ? တဂၤလဲၣ်?
But who is my best friend? Who? Who? Who?
မ့ၢ်ဝဲဒၣ်ယမိၢ်လီၤ.
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