လါဒီးခိၣ်မီၣ်
The Moon and the Cap
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ယပၢ်ပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ဆံၤတူအမဲာ်ဒီး ယမိၢ်ပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ယၤခိၣ်မီၣ်လါအဲး ဒီးပှ့ၤဟ့ၣ်ယပုၢ်လၢကိာ်ကမၢလီၤ
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Papa bought Chintu fancy glasses. Mother bought me a bright blue cap. The baby got sugar candy.
ဖဲလၢယဟဲက့ၤလၢကျဲအခါ ကလံၤဟဲဆူၣ်ဒိၣ်မး ဒီးယခိၣ်မီၣ်ယူၤကွံာ်ဖးယံၤညါလီၤ
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On the way home, a very strong wind came. It blew my cap away.
ယခိၣ်မီၣ်ယူၤထီၣ်စဲးဘူးဝဲဒၣ်လၢချၢၢ်ဒ့တဒ့အလိၤ
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My cap got stuck on a branch of the old Pipal tree.
ယဟီၣ်ရး ယအီၣ်မ့ၤဟါခီတဝံၣ်လၢဘၣ်
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I cried a lot. And I did not eat my dinner.
ဒီးတၢ်တနၤန့ၣ် လါဖိဟဲကပီၤထီၣ် ဒီးလါဖိန့ၣ်ထံၣ်ဝဲယခိၣ်မီၣ် အိၣ်ထီဃာ်လၢချၢဒ့လိၤန့ၣ်လီၤ
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Later that night, the moon came up. It looked at my cap on the old Pipal tree.
ဒီးလါဖိန့ၣ်ကၢၣ်ထီၣ်ယခိၣ်မီၣ် လၢတၢ်သးဖှံပူၤနံၤကမှံၤထီၣ်ဝဲ ဒီးယဲစ့ၢ်ကီးယဘၣ်နံၤကမှံၤဃုာ်ဒီးအီၤန့ၣ်လီၤ
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It tried on my cap. The moon smiled happily. I had to smile too.
လၢခံတနံၤန့ၣ်ဖဲယမၤလိတၢ်ကၠိပျၢ်န့ၣ် ယမိၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ယၤလၢခိၣ်မီၣ်ဂီၤကတြ့ာ်အသီတဘ့ၣ် ဒီးတဲယၤလၢလါဖိဟ့ၣ်နၤလီၤ
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After school the next day, my mother gave me a shiny new red cap. "The moon sent it," she said.
ဒီးနၤတနၤန့ၣ် လါဖိဒီးယၤပကကၢၣ်ထီၣ်သကိးခိၣ်မီၣ်ဒီးနံၤကမှံၤထီၣ် ပှဲၤဒီးတၢ်သးမုၣ်လီၤ
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That night, both the moon and I wore our caps and smiled. We were happy.
နဆိကမိၣ်လၢမုၢ်န့ၣ်ကဘၣ်ကၢၣ်ခိၣ်မီၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဧါ
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Do you think the sun needs a hat?
နတဲကွၢ်ကွၢ် တနံၤအံၤယကကၢၣ်ခိၣ်မီၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်တဘ့ၣ်လဲၣ်
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Guess which cap I am wearing today!
Words in this story
- ယI, my
- ပၢ်father
- ပှ့ၤto buy
- ဟ့ၣ်to give
- အhis, her, its
- မဲာ်eye, face
- ဒီးand
- မိၢ်mother
- ယၤme
- ခိၣ်head
- လါအဲးblue
- ပုၢ်younger sibling
- လၢin, at
- ကိာ်neck
- ကwill (future marker)
- မၢto send
- လီၤto go down
- ဖဲnecklace
- ဟဲက့ၤto come back
- ကျဲway
- အခါwhen, while
- ကလံၤwind
- ဟဲto come
- ဆူၣ်strong
- ဒိၣ်to be big
- မးvery, really
- ယူၤto fly
- ကွံာ်to throw
- ဖးto read
- ယံၤto be far
- ထီၣ်to go up
- စဲးmachine
- ဘူးto be near
- ဒ့to play (an instrument)
- တnot (negative prefix)
- လိၤto be straight
- ဟီၣ်to cry
- အီၣ်to eat
- မ့ၤrice (cooked)
- ဟါevening
- ခီside
- ဝံၣ်to be tasty
- ဘၣ်to hit
- တၢ်thing
- နၤnight
- န့ၣ်that
- လါmonth
- ဖိchild
- ကပီၤspider
- ထံၣ်to see
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- ထီto be tall
- ချၢback (of the body)
- ကၢၣ်lazy
- သးဖှံto be happy
- ပူၤhole
- နံၤday
- စ့ၢ်ကီးalso
- ဃုာ်ဒီးtogether with
- အီၤit, him, her
- လၢခံbehind, later
- မၤလိto learn
- ကၠိschool
- ပျၢ်to forgive
- ဂီၤmorning
- အသီnew
- ဘ့ၣ်to take off (clothes)
- တဲto tell
- ပwe, our
- သကိးfriend
- ပှဲၤto be full
- သးheart
- မုၣ်female
- နyou, your
- ဆိကမိၣ်to think
- မုၢ်sun
- ကဘၣ်must
- ဧါ(yes/no question particle)
- ကွၢ်to look
- တနံၤအံၤtoday
- ဖဲလဲၣ်where
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.