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တၢ်လၢယအဲၣ်ဒိးမၤဒီးတၢ်လၢယတအဲၣ်ဒိးမၤ

Do and don't

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From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.

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ယမံဂဲၤထၢၣ်တမုာ်ဒံးဘၣ်! ယတအဲၣ်ဒိးလဲၤမၤတၢ်မၤလၢအဒိၣ်ဘၣ်!

I DON'T want to wake up! I DON'T want to do the big job!

ယတအဲၣ်ဒိးထူးမဲ!ယတအဲၣ်ဒိးလုၢ်ထံ! ဒီးတအဲၣ်ဒိးအီၣ်ဂီၤတၢ်အီၣ်လၢအဲးလံဘၣ်!

I DON'T want to brush my teeth! I DON'T want to have a bath! I DON'T want to have idlis for breakfast!

ယတအဲၣ်ဒိးလဲၤကၠိဘၣ်!

I DON'T want to go to school!

အုမ်... ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒီးတနံၤအံၤနတီၤ ကလဲၤဟးလိာ်ကွဲကွၢ်ကီတၢ် လၢတၢ်ဖိဃၢ်အလီၢ်!

Hmm... But, today's your class picnic at the zoo!

ယဘၣ်သးအီၣ်ကိၣ်အဲးလံလၢပၢနုာ်အံသၣ်ဆၢ! ယအဲၣ်ဒိးလဲၤကၠိ! ယအဲၣ်ဒိးသးဝံၣ်တၢ်ဖဲယလုၢ်ထံအခါ! ယအဲၣ်ဒိးသူဝဲယတၢ်ထူးမဲလၢအသီတဘိ!

I DO like idlis with sugar! I DO want to go to school! I DO like singing while I take a bath! I DO want to use my new tooth brush!

အူး!.. အအံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်လၢအရ့ဒိၣ်! ယအဲၣ်ဒိးလဲၤမၤတၢ်မၤဖးဒိၣ်! ယကလဲၤချ့ဒံးကဘီယူၤ... ဝံသစူၤပျဲယကျဲ အိၣ်နီးယကျဲတဂ့ၤ!

Oops! This is urgent! I DO want to go for the big job! Here I come, like a rocket... DO please give way, DON'T stand in my way!

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