တၢၢ်လၢအခု
Busy Ants
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စ့ၣ်, ထွဲ, စ့ၣ်, ထွဲ, ပကဟးကယီကယီ သဲတဂ့ၤ
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Left, right, left, right. We walk silently in a line.
ယအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆိၣ်ကမိၣ်လၢအဂ့ၤလံ ယကဟံးန့ၢ်တၢ်ခီၣ်ရံးဒီကူၢ် ဒ်သိးကလဲၤတၢ်ချ့ထီၣ်အဂီၢ်!
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I just got an idea. I am going to get a set of WHEELS to move faster!
ပတသီၣ်ဒိၣ်ဒိၣ်ဒ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိအဂၤတဖၣ်ဘၣ် လၢပကျိာ်န့ၣ် ပဘၣ်သူပနးဒ့လၢကနၢတၢ်ပလုၢ်အဂီၢ်လီၤ
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We are not noisy like other animals. Ours is a language of smells.
တၢ်ပလုၢ်တနီၤနီၤဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါပှၤလၢ "ပိာ်ယခံ တၢ်အီၣ်တၢ်အီအိၣ်ဖဲအံၤအါအါဂီၢ်ဂီၢ်" လီၤ
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One kind of smell says, "Follow me this way for a feast."
တၢ်ပလုၢ်တနီၤနီၤတဲပှၤလၢ "လီၤပျံၤ! လဲၤတဂ့ၤ"
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Another smell says, "Danger! Do not go there."
ယအီၣ်ကိၣ်ကီၤလၤ (ขนมเค้ก) ဒီးကိၣ်ဆၢကိးမံၤဒဲး ဒ်သိးဒီးနၤစ့ၢ်ကီး
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I love cakes and all kinds of sweets, just like you.
တၢ်မိၣ်ထံၣ်နသးလၢယဖံးယညၣ်ဖဲယမၤတၢ်အခါဧါ ? နကွၢ်ယၤအံၤန့ၣ် ယဆံးကဲဖိ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယဂံၢ်ဆူၣ်ဒိၣ်မး
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Want to see my muscles at work? I may look very tiny to you, but I am very strong.
တဘၣ်နီတမံၤဘၣ် ပဲတြီမ့ၢ်ကးတံၢ်အသးနာ်က့ ယလဲၤနုာ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတဲၢ်ဖးဆံးကဲဖိသ့မီၣ်
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Never mind if the door is shut. I can slip through the smallest crack.
နနာ်ကီဟါ ပှၤဒ်သိးယၤဒီကယၤ အိၣ်သကိးဖဲအံၤမုာ်ဒိၣ်မးလီၤ
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Believe it or not, hundreds of us live happily in a colony.
ဟဲမၤလိတၢ်ကတိၤလၢအသီ အသီ ဆံး-ဒိၣ် နီၣ်-ချ့ ဖုၣ်-ထီ ဃဲ-ဘီၣ် ဆှိၣ်-ကပုာ် သီၣ်ဒိၣ်-ဘှ့ၣ် အအံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်ကတိၤခိၣ်ခံ နကွဲးတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်လၢအခိၣ်ခံတကူၣ်ဒီးတကူၣ်သ့ဧါ အဒိ တၢၢ်ဆံး ကဆီဖးဒိၣ် "မၤစူးစးဒ်သိးတၢၢ်" မ့ၢ်တၢ်ကတိၤလၢတဲဝဲ ပှၤတဂၤန့ၣ်မၤတၢ်ဆူၣ်
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LET US LEARN SOME NEW WORDS. Small - Big Slow - Fast Short - Tall Thin - Fat Hard - Soft Noisy - Quiet Here are some words with their opposites. Can you make a sentence for each pair of opposite words? For example, ‘An ant is small; an elephant is big’. "As busy as an ant" is a nice way to describe someone who is very hard working.
Words in this story
- စ့ၣ်left (side)
- ထွဲright (side)
- ပwe, our
- ကဟးphlegm
- ကယီကယီslowly
- တnot (negative prefix)
- ဂ့ၤgood
- ယI, my
- အိၣ်ဒီးto have
- တၢ်thing
- ဆိၣ်to swear, vow
- ကwill (future marker)
- လၢin, at
- အhis, her, its
- လံalready (completed)
- ဟံးန့ၢ်to take
- ခီၣ်leg
- ဒီknife
- ကူၢ်group, flock
- ဒ်သိးlike, as
- လဲၤတၢ်to travel
- ချ့quick
- ထီၣ်to go up
- အဂီၢ်for (someone's) sake
- သီၣ်to sound; noisy
- ဒိၣ်to be big
- ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိanimal
- အဂၤother
- ဘၣ်to hit
- ကျိာ်language
- န့ၣ်that
- သူto use
- ဒ့to play (an instrument)
- နၢတၢ်to smell
- လီၤto go down
- တနီၤsome
- နီၤsome
- ဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါto inform
- ပှၤperson
- ပိာ်to follow
- ခံtwo
- တၢ်အီၣ်တၢ်အီfood and drink
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- ဖဲအံၤhere
- အါto be many
- ဂီၢ်for the sake of
- တဲto tell
- လီၤပျံၤto be frightening
- လဲၤto go
- အီၣ်to eat
- ကိၣ်bread
- ကီၤto endure, to hold back
- ဒီးand
- ဆၢto be sweet
- ကိးto call
- မံၤname
- ဒဲးto pluck
- နၤnight
- စ့ၢ်ကီးalso
- ထံၣ်to see
- နyou, your
- သးheart
- ဖံးskin
- ညၣ်fish
- ဖဲnecklace
- မၤto cause
- အခါwhen, while
- ဧါ(yes/no question particle)
- ကွၢ်to look
- ယၤme
- အံၤthis
- ဆံးto be small
- ကဲcan, to be able
- ဖိchild
- ဘၣ်ဆၣ်but
- ဂံၢ်to count
- ဆူၣ်strong
- မးvery, really
- နီpalace
- ပဲတြီdoor
- မ့ၢ်to be
- နာ်to believe
- နုာ်to enter
- တၢ်ပူၤhole, gap
- ဖးto read
- သ့to wash
- ကီdifficult
- ဟါevening
- ကယၤhundred (unit)
- သကိးfriend
- မုာ်pleasant
- ဟဲto come
- မၤလိto learn
- တၢ်ကတိၤword
- အသီnew
- နီၣ်drive
- ဖုၣ်to be low, short
- ထီto be tall
- ဘီၣ်to be fat
- ဆှိၣ်stiff
- ဘှ့ၣ်fog
- ခိၣ်head
- ကွဲးto write
- တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်matter, reason
- ကူၣ်to plan, advise
- ကူၣ်သ့wise
- အဒိfor example
- တၢၢ်ant
- ကဆီelephant
- ဖးဒိၣ်large
- ဂၤ(classifier for people)
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.