သးဝီၣ်တၢ်လၢတၢ်စူၤကျါ
Sing in the Rain
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လဲၤဝဲ, ဒီးသးဝံၣ်တၢ်, ဒီးအတၢ်သးဝံၣ်န့ၣ် မ့ၢ်ဝဲ, “တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိ ဟဲအိၣ်ယၤတက့ၢ်”
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He walks. He sings. His song is: Come to me, clouds!
ဒီး, စီၤကါကး နၣ်ဟူတၢ်သီၣ်! ပး,ပး,ပး,! မ့ၢ်မတၤမၤသီၣ်တၢ်တဂၤလဲၣ် ဒါနိစါဧိဒံနိး! စီၤကါကးသူၣ်ခုသးခုဒိၣ်မး လၢထံၣ်ဘၣ် ဒံနိး
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Kaka hears a sound! Dup, Dup, Dup! What makes this beat? It is Dinoo the dinosaur! Kaka is glad to see Dinoo.
ဒံနိးအဝဲ အဲၣ်တၢ်သူၣ်ဝံၣ်သးဆၢစ့ၢ်ကီး! စီၤကါကးဒီး ဒံနိး သးဝံၣ်တၢ်ဒီးဂဲၤကလံၣ် တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိ ဟဲအိၣ်ယၤတက့ၢ်! ဟ့ၣ်ယၤလၢမူခိၣ်ထံတက့ၢ်!
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Dinoo likes the song too! Kaka and Dinoo sing and dance. Come to me, clouds! Give me your rain!
တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိ နၢ်ဟူတၢ်သးဝံၣ်ဒီး သုးဘူးလီၤအသး စီၤကါကးဒီးဒံနိး သူၣ်ခုသးခု ကွၢ်တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိဒီး မ့ၢ်တၢ်လီၤနံၤလီၤ!
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The clouds hear the song. The clouds come in. Kaka and Dinoo are glad. Funny clouds!
မူခိၣ်စူၤလီၤ ဒီးအဝဲသူသကိးကဒၢမုၢ် ဒီးလဲၤသကိးဆူသဝီၤပူၤ ဒီးအဝဲသးဝံၣ်သကိးတၢ် ဒီးစံးဘျုးက့ၤမူခိၣ်ထံန့ၣ်လီၤ!
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The rain comes down. They share an umbrella. They go on to the village. And they sing: Thank you for the rain!
မ့ၢ်နထံၣ်ဘၣ် ဒါနိစါဧိ စ့ၢ်ကီးဧါ မ့ၢ်နဆိကမိၣ်လၢအသးဝံၣ်သ့စ့ၢ်ကီးဧါ ဒီးလၢမူခိၣ်စူၤကျါန့ၣ် မ့ၢ်နအဲၣ်ဒိးမၤတၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ်
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Did you ever see a dinosaur? Do you think it could sing? What do you like to do in the rain?
Words in this story
- လဲၤto go
- ဒီးand
- သးဝံၣ်to sing
- တၢ်thing
- အhis, her, its
- တၢ်သးဝံၣ်song
- န့ၣ်that
- မ့ၢ်to be
- တၢ်အၢၣ်cloud
- ဖိchild
- ဟဲto come
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- ယၤme
- တnot (negative prefix)
- ဟူto be heard, to hear
- တၢ်သီၣ်sound
- မတၤwho
- မၤto cause
- သီၣ်to sound; noisy
- ဂၤ(classifier for people)
- ဒါto spread out (a mat)
- ဒံcucumber
- နိးbeak
- သူၣ်ခုသးခုglad
- ဒိၣ်to be big
- မးvery, really
- လၢin, at
- ထံၣ်to see
- ဘၣ်to hit
- အဝဲhe, she
- အဲၣ်to love
- သူၣ်liver
- ဝံၣ်to be tasty
- သးheart
- ဆၢto be sweet
- စ့ၢ်ကီးalso
- ဂဲၤကလံၣ်to dance
- ဟ့ၣ်to give
- မူခိၣ်sky
- ထံwater
- နၢ်ဟူto hear
- သုးဘူးto move closer
- လီၤto go down
- ကွၢ်to look
- လီၤနံၤto be funny
- စူၤto rain
- သူto use
- သကိးfriend
- ကwill (future marker)
- ဒၢdrum
- မုၢ်sun
- လဲၤသကိးto go together
- ဆူto, towards
- ပူၤhole
- စံးဘျုးto thank
- က့ၤto return
- နyou, your
- ဧါ(yes/no question particle)
- ဆိကမိၣ်to think
- သ့to wash
- ကျါamong
- အဲၣ်ဒိးto want
- မနုၤလဲၣ်what
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.