ဘါတံဒီးဘးဘျံး
Bunty and Bubbly
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ဒီးထိၣ်
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...and with birds.
အဝဲအဲၣ်တၢ်ဂဲၤလိာ်ကွဲကဘီလၢပှၤချံးအီၤလၢစးခိ
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She loves to play with paper boats.
အဝဲအဲၣ်တၢ်အူးထီၣ်ဃိာ်မဲးစ့ၢ်ကီး
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She also likes to make sand castles.
ဖဲဘၤတံဟဲက့ၤတုၤလၢအဟံၣ် အမိၢ်တဲဘၣ်အီၤလၢကဘၣ်လဲၤအိၣ်လူၢ်ထံ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အဝဲတလဲၤဘၣ်
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When Bunty goes back home, her mother asks her to clean up. But she refuses.
“ယတအဲၣ်ဆးပၠာ်ဘၣ်” အဝဲကိးဃါတၢ်
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"I hate soaps!" she screams.
ဘၣ်တနၤ အဝဲမံမီၢ်ဝဲလၢတၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဟဲအိၣ်ဝးတရံးအဃိာ်မဲး ဒီးမၤအၢမၤသီအနီၢ်ကစၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
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One night, she has a dream. The germs are all around her castle, and are attacking her.
ဘၤတံး တၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဃိၢ်လူၤအီၤ အဝဲစံၣ်ဃ့ၢ်လၢာ်သးဒီးကိးပသူထီၣ် “မၤစၢၤ… မၤစၢၤ!”
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Bunty is chased by the germs. She runs for her life and screams, "Help… Help!"
တဘျီဃီန့ၣ် ဆးပၠာ်အစီၤပၤဘၤတံးအိၣ်ဖျါထီၣ်အသး“ဘၤတံးဧၢ ပျံၤတၢ်တဂ့ၤ” အဝဲစံးဘၣ်အီၤ “လဲၤကနိဒီးတၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်” ဆးပၠာ်အစီၤပၤဟ့ၣ်လီၤအကလုၢ်လၢဆးပၠာ်သဘှဲအသုးမုၢ်သံၣ်ဘိအအိၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
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Suddenly, Soap King Bubbly appears. "Bunty, don’t be afraid," he says. "Go attack the germs!" the Soap King orders his army of bubbles.
ဒီးဆးပၠာ်သဘှဲအသုးမုၢ်သံၣ်ဘိဟီထီၣ်ကွံာ်တၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်လီၤမၢ်ခဲလၢာ်ခဲဆ့န့ၣ်လီၤ
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The army of bubbles chases the germs away.
ကိးနံၤဒဲးန့ၣ်ဘၤတံးကသူဆးပၠာ်လုၢ်ထံ ဒီးအဝဲကထူးအမဲဒီးထွါကွံာ်အလိၤတုၤအကဆှဲကဆှီန့ၣ်လီၤ
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These days, Bunty likes to use soap, and she brushes and scrubs herself clean.
Words in this story
- ဒီးand
- ထိၣ်bird
- အဝဲhe, she
- အဲၣ်to love
- တၢ်thing
- ဂဲၤto move
- လိာ်ကွဲto play
- ကဘီship
- လၢin, at
- ပှၤperson
- ချံးtortoise
- အီၤit, him, her
- စးခိpaper
- ထီၣ်to go up
- ဃိာ်prison
- မဲးsand
- စ့ၢ်ကီးalso
- ဖဲnecklace
- တံthick
- ဟဲက့ၤto come back
- တုၤto arrive
- အhis, her, its
- ဟံၣ်house
- မိၢ်mother
- တဲto tell
- ဘၣ်to hit
- ကဘၣ်must
- လဲၤto go
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- လူၢ်gourd, pumpkin
- ထံwater
- ဘၣ်ဆၣ်but
- တnot (negative prefix)
- ယI, my
- ဆးto sew
- ကိးto call
- နၤnight
- မံမီၢ်to dream
- တၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါillness
- ဃၢ်louse
- ဟဲto come
- ဝးတရံးaround
- မၤအၢto harm
- မၤto cause
- သီday (when counting days)
- နီၢ်ကစၢ်oneself
- န့ၣ်that
- လီၤto go down
- လူၤto chase
- စံၣ်jump
- ဃ့ၢ်to run
- လၢာ်to be used up
- သးheart
- ကိးပသူto shout
- မၤစၢၤto help
- တဘျီဃီat once
- စီၤပၤking
- အိၣ်ဖျါto appear
- ပျံၤတၢ်to be afraid
- ဂ့ၤgood
- စံးto say
- ကနိto wrestle
- ဟ့ၣ်လီၤto hand over
- ကလုၢ်voice, word
- ဘှဲBwe (Karen group)
- သုးto move
- မုၢ်sun
- သံၣ်comb
- ဘိ(classifier for long thin things)
- ဟီsalty
- ကွံာ်to throw
- လီၤမၢ်to disappear
- ခဲလၢာ်all
- ဆ့shirt
- နံၤday
- ဒဲးto pluck
- ကသူcurry
- လုၢ်ထံto bathe
- ကwill (future marker)
- ထူးto rub, scrub
- မဲtooth
- ထွါကွံာ်wipe
- လိၤto be straight
- ကဆှီto be clean
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.