တၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံး အတၢ်တိာ်ကျဲၤလၢအဒိၣ်အမုၢ်
Little Ant's Big Plan
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တၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံးဖးဒ်ဝဲၤဒၣ်လံာ်ဒ် ဖးဝဲၤဒၣ်ဟါမုၢ်တနံၤ အဖးဝဲၤတုအလၢာ်ဝဲၤမုၢ်တနံၤ
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Little Ant would read all day, he’d read and read the day away.
တၢၢ်ကၢ်ဃၢတဖၣ် တဘ့ၣ်ဒီးတဘ့ၣ်အဝဲၤဒၣ်ပာ်ဖှိၢ်တၢ်လၢအဃုၤထံၣ်န့ၣ်ဝဲၤလၢအမ့ၢ်ဝဲၤတၢ်အီၣ်လၢတၢ်ဂၢၢ်ခါအဂီၢ်
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The other ants took what they found to store for winter underground.
အမိၢ်အပၢ်သးပှံၢ်အီၤဒိၣ်မး ဒီးတၢၢ်ဖိအဝဲၤဒၣ်သ့ၣ်ညါဝဲၤလၢအတပီးကျိးလၢဘၣ်
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His mum and dad got really mad, and Little Ant felt really bad.
ဖဲးလၢသ့ၣ်လၢ်လီၤအကတီၢ် ဖဲးလၢသ့ၣ်လၢ်တဖၣ်လီၤဆှုၤကွံာ်လၢအထူၢ် တၢၢ်တဖၣ်ကဘၣ်ပာ်ဖှိၣ်တၢ်အီၣ်လၢဟီၢ်ခိၣ်အဖးလာ်
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In autumn when the leaves fall down, the ants must keep food underground.
တၢၢ်အနီၢ်ပၤမုၣ်လိၢ်ဘၣ်ဝဲၤလၢတၢ်ဖးတၢ်အီၣ်လီၤပှဲၤဝဲၤဒီးတၢ်အီၣ် ဒ်န့ၣ်အသိးတၢၢ်တဖၣ်ကဘၣ်ဃုတၢ်အီၣ်တုၤန့ၣ်အါအါလီၤ
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The Queen wants food to fill the store, so all the ants must work some more.
တၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံးတဲးဘၣ်ပှၤလၢတၢ်လီၢ်တဖၣ်လၢအထံၣ်ဝဲၤဖဲးအဖးလံာ်တဖၣ် "တၢ်ဆါအီၣ်မ့ၤအလီၢ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်လၢပလိၢ်ဘၣ် အမ့ၢ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢပှၤအီၣ်တၢ်" လံာ်လၢယဖးတဲးဝဲၤဒ်န့ၣ်"
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Little Ant begins to shout about a place he read about. "A restaurant is what we need, a place where people go to feed. It says so in the books I read."
တၢၢ်တဖၣ်ဆီၤလီၤအသးဒီဂ့ၢ် ဒီးအဝဲၤဒၣ်လဲၤဝဲၤဒၣ်ဒီဂ့ၢ်ဆူးမုၢ်လီၤနုာ်တပၤလီၤ
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The ants go marching one by one. They march into the setting sun.
ဝံၤဒီးတၢၢ်တဖိဆံးဆံးတဲးထီၣ်ဝဲၤ "ပဝဲၤဒၣ်ကျးအံၤ လၢအံၤမ်အံၤ"
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And Little Ant said "Hey, there’s one!"
တၢၢ်တဖၣ် တဘ့ၣ်ဒီးတဘ့ၣ်လဲၤဟးဒီဂ့ၢ် ဆီာ်ကိၣ်ဒီဖျၢၣ် ဆီာ်ကိၣ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်
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The ants go marching one by one, carrying a burger, carrying a bun.
တုအက့ၤတုၤလၢအသွံၤ အနီၢ်ပၤမုၢ်အိၣ်ပှဲၤဒီးတၢ်သးခု လၢတၢ်ဖာ်ဖှိၣ်တၢ်အီၣ်အလီၢ်ပှဲၤဝဲၤဒီးတၢ်အီၣ် အဝဲၤဒၣ်ထိၢ်ပှ့ၤထီၣ်အကလုၢ်လၢတၢ်သးခုန့ၣ်လီၤ
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When they return the Queen is glad. The stores are full. They cheer like mad.
အမိၢ်အပၢ်ဖီးဟုၤတၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံး
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Ant gets hugs from mum and dad.
အက့းမုၢ်ဖီၣ်ထီၣ်အစုဒီးတဲဝဲၤ "ခဲအံၤယဆိမိၢ်လၢယနၢ်ပၢၢ်ကၠီးလံၤ" "တၢ်လၢနအဲၣ်တၢ်ဖးလံာ်န့ၣ် ဒုးကဲးထီၣ်လၢတၢ်မိၢ်ဖးယသးလၢလံာ်စံၣ်ကီးလီၤ
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His baby sister takes his hand "Now I think I understand." "The way you love to read a book … Makes me want to take a look."
Words in this story
- တၢၢ်ant
- ဖိဆံးsmall child
- ဆံးto be small
- ဖးto read
- လံာ်book
- ဟါevening
- မုၢ်sun
- တnot (negative prefix)
- နံၤday
- အhis, her, its
- လၢာ်to be used up
- ကၢ်rake
- ဃၢheavy
- ဘ့ၣ်to take off (clothes)
- ဒီးand
- ပာ်to put
- တၢ်thing
- လၢin, at
- ထံၣ်to see
- န့ၣ်that
- မ့ၢ်to be
- တၢ်အီၣ်food
- ဂၢၢ်firm, steady
- ခါstep, pace
- အဂီၢ်for (someone's) sake
- မိၢ်mother
- ပၢ်father
- သးheart
- အီၤit, him, her
- ဒိၣ်to be big
- မးvery, really
- ဖိchild
- သ့ၣ်ညါto know
- ကျိးtrough
- ဘၣ်to hit
- သ့ၣ်tree
- လီၤto go down
- ကတီၢ်period of time, term
- ကွံာ်to throw
- ကဘၣ်must
- ခိၣ်head
- နီၢ်ပၤမုၣ်queen
- လိၢ်to borrow
- ပှဲၤto be full
- ဒ်န့ၣ်အသိးso, thus
- ဃုတၢ်to search
- အီၣ်to eat
- တုၤto arrive
- အါto be many
- ပှၤperson
- လီၢ်field
- ဖးလံာ်to read
- တၢ်ဆါillness
- မ့ၤrice (cooked)
- ပwe, our
- အီၣ်တၢ်to eat (something)
- ယI, my
- ဒ်န့ၣ်like that
- ဒီknife
- ဂ့ၢ်rattan
- လဲၤto go
- နုာ်to enter
- ဝံၤဒီးand then
- ထီၣ်to go up
- ကျးshop
- အံၤthis
- ဟးto walk
- ကိၣ်bread
- ဖျၢၣ်(classifier for round things)
- က့ၤto return
- နီၢ်body; self
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- တၢ်သးခုjoy
- ပှ့ၤto buy
- ကလုၢ်voice, word
- ဖီးdot, point
- ဖီၣ်to catch, to hold
- စုhand
- တဲto tell
- ခဲအံၤnow
- ဆိfirst, early
- နၢ်ပၢၢ်to understand
- လံၤgrandchild
- နyou, your
- အဲၣ်to love
- ဒုးto cause (someone to do); to fight
- စံၣ်jump
- ကီးisland
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.