ယထီၣ်တၢ်သ့
I Can Climb!
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ယထီၣ်ဃီသ့လံံ
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I can climb up the steps.
ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယက့ၤလီၤတသ့ဘၣ်
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But I cannot climb down again.
ယထီၣ်ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤသ့လံ
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I can climb on a chair.
ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယက့ၤလီၤတသ့ဒံးဘၣ်
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But I cannot climb down again.
ယထီၣ်ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤသ့လံ ဝံၤအလီၢ်ခံ ထီၣ်လၢစဘွဲခိၣ်သ့လံ
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I climb on to the chair, and then on the table!
ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယက့ၤလီၤတသ့ဒံးဘၣ်
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But I cannot climb down again.
ပါပၢ်ဧၢ ပါပၢ် ယကီးဖှး ယပၢ်နံၤ စိၤနူး မၤလိနသးလၢက့ၤလီၤဒံးအသ့ ယပၢ်တဲဝဲ
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"Papa! Papa!" I shout. Papa laughs. "Sonu, learn to climb down!" he says.
ယပျံၤတၢ် ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တဟီၣ်ဘၣ်
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I am afraid. But I do not cry.
ယက့ၤလီၤကယီကယီလၢစဘွဲ ဒီးခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအလိၤ
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Slowly, I get down from the table, and down from the chair.
လၢခံကတၢၢ် ယမၤလိသ့သးလၢကက့ၤလီၤသ့န့ၣ်လီၤ
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At last, I have learnt to climb down too!
Words in this story
- ယI, my
- ထီၣ်to go up
- ဃီladder
- သ့to wash
- ဘၣ်ဆၣ်but
- က့ၤto return
- လီၤto go down
- တသ့ဘၣ်cannot
- ဆ့ၣ်နီၤto sit
- လံalready (completed)
- တnot (negative prefix)
- ဒံးstill
- ဘၣ်to hit
- ဝံၤto finish
- အhis, her, its
- လီၢ်ခံbehind
- လၢin, at
- ခိၣ်head
- ပါdad
- ပၢ်father
- ကီးisland
- နံၤday
- မၤလိto learn
- နyou, your
- သးheart
- တဲto tell
- ပျံၤတၢ်to be afraid
- ဟီၣ်to cry
- ကယီကယီslowly
- ဒီးand
- လိၤto be straight
- လၢခံbehind, later
- ကတၢၢ်the end; the most (superlative)
- ကwill (future marker)
- န့ၣ်that
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.