တၢ်လီၤမၢ်ဒီးဃုထံၣ်က့ၤဝဲ
Lost and Found
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တအိၣ်လၢလီၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤခိၣ်ဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢကၠုၣ်ဖီလၣ်ဘၣ်
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Not on the sofa. Not under the cot.
တအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ဒၢပူၤဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢယပုၢ်မုၣ်အဆ့ဖီလၣ်ဘၣ်
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Not in the box. Not under my sister's frock.
တအိၣ်လၢခုဒုခၢၣ်အဖီလၣ်ဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢယထၢၣ်ပူၤဘၣ် ဧု ဧု မ့ၢ်အလီၤမၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်
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Not under the pillow. Not in my bag. Sob, sob, where have you gone?
ယဃုလၢယဒၢးပူၤကိးဆူးဒဲး ယဃုအိးထီၣ်ယလံာ်ကိးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲး
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I have looked in every room, l have looked under every book.
ယဃုကွၢ်လၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီခိၣ် ဒီးလၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီလာ် လီၤမၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်
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I have looked under the chair, I have looked under the stool. Where have you gone?
တယံာ်ဘၣ်ဒီးယဖံဟဲက့ၤလၢအတၢ်ဟးလိၢ်ကွဲ "ကွၢ်လၢန့ၣ်ယဖံတိကီၣ်မတၤတမံၤလၢကရၢၢ်ပူၤလဲၣ်"
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Soon granny came back from her walk. "Look what I found in the park."
"အကွံလီၤသ့ အခွ့ထီၣ်ခွ့လီၤသ့ အတရံးသးသ့ ဘျးလီၤစဲဟူးဝးသ့ ဟးဟါ ဟံးဟံး"ယဖံနံၤထီၣ် ခံးခံး န့ၣ်လီၤ
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"It can sway, it can bounce. It can spin, it can dangle. Ha-ha, hee-hee," said Granny with a giggle.
အိ ယဖံဧၢ! ယစံးဘျုးနၤဒိၣ်မးလီၤ! ယဖံထံၣ်န့ၢ်က့ၤယၤ ယယိ- ယိး လၢယအဲၣ်ဒိၣ်မးလံန့ၣ်လီၤ
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Oh Granny! Thank you so much! You have found my dear yo-yo!
"ယိ-ယိး န့ၣ် အမံၤလီၤနံၤဒိၣ်မး! ပ၈ဲၤလိၢ်ကွဲဲအီၤမုာ်ဒိၣ်မးန့ၣ်လီၤ!
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"Yo-yo? What a funny name! What a funny toy! I want to play with it, It gives me so much joy!"
ခံးခံး ခံးခံး နံၤသီၣ်ခံးခး ယဖံဂဲၤယတၢ်လိၢ်ကွဲဒီတနံၤညါလီၤ!
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Giggle, giggle, giggling away, Granny played, with my little toy. For the rest of the day!
Words in this story
- တnot (negative prefix)
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- လၢin, at
- လီၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤseat
- ခိၣ်head
- ဘၣ်to hit
- ဖီto cook
- လၣ်leaf
- တၢ်thing
- ဒၢdrum
- ပူၤhole
- ယI, my
- ပုၢ်younger sibling
- မုၣ်female
- အhis, her, its
- ဆ့shirt
- ဒုto be muddy
- ထၢၣ်bag
- မ့ၢ်to be
- လီၤto go down
- ဖဲလဲၣ်where
- ဃုsix
- ဒၢးroom
- ကိးto call
- ဒဲးto pluck
- အိးထီၣ်to open
- လံာ်book
- ဘ့ၣ်to take off (clothes)
- ကွၢ်to look
- ဆ့ၣ်နီၤto sit
- ဖီခိၣ်above, on top
- ဒီးand
- ဖီလာ်under
- ယံာ်to last
- ဖံgrandmother
- ဟဲက့ၤto come back
- ဟးto walk
- လိၢ်to borrow
- ကွဲbee
- န့ၣ်that
- တိto hit
- ကီၣ်glue
- မတၤwho
- မံၤname
- ကရၢၢ်yard, enclosure
- ကွံpool (of water)
- သ့to wash
- ထီၣ်to go up
- သးheart
- ဟူးဝးto shake
- ဟါevening
- ဟံးto take, hold
- နံၤday
- ခံးdark
- အိoh
- စံးဘျုးto thank
- နၤnight
- ဒိၣ်to be big
- မးvery, really
- ထံၣ်န့ၢ်က့ၤto find
- ယၤme
- ယိးbear (animal)
- အဲၣ်to love
- လံalready (completed)
- အမံၤname
- လီၤနံၤto be funny
- ပwe, our
- အီၤit, him, her
- မုာ်pleasant
- သီၣ်to sound; noisy
- ဂဲၤto move
- ယတၢ်mine
- ဒီknife
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.