ကိကိးလဲၤဖဲလဲၣ်
Where is Gogo?
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တိတိးဆိကမိၣ်ခူသူၣ်ဝဲလၢ ကိကိးကဃ့ၢ်န၁်ဆူပှၢ်ပူၤသပှၢ်တၢၢ်လီၤ အဝဲကွၢ်ဃုတၢ်လၢ တၢ်သနၢၢ်ပူၤလၢသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအကျါ ဒီးလၢသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အကျါကိးပူၤဒဲး ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိလၢပှၢ်ပူၤတဖၣ်ကွၢ်ထံကွၢ်စူၢ်တိတိး ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တိတိး ဃုကိကိးတဘၣ်ဘၣ်
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Gogo must have run towards the jungle, thought Toto. He looked behind every bush and tree. The animals in the forest watched Toto. But Toto could not find Gogo anywhere.
တိတိးဟံးထီၣ်မဲာ်ထံကလၤပီၤကွၢ်တၢ်ဖျါလၢအယံၤ ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်သကုၤကံကျိကပၤ မ့ၢ်ကိကိးအိၣ်လၢထံဝၢ်အဂၤတကပၤဧါ
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Toto whipped out his field glasses. He scanned the area across the river. Was Gogo on the other side?
ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တထံၣ်ကိကိးအခီၣ်လီၢ်ဘၣ် တိတိး ဟ်လီၤအသးယူၤလီၤလၤထံပူၤ ဘၣ်တဘၣ်ကိကိး ကကီၤကသါဒီးအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢထံကျါ
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Gogo was not to be found. Toto took a deep breath and dived into the river. What if Gogo was holding his breath and hiding underwater?
မိၤတံးထွံၣ်ဖိထံၣ်တိတိးဒိးသးကညီၤအီၤ မီၤတၢ်ဒီးအမဲာ်ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်ဆူ တၢ်ဆါတၢ်ပှ့ၤအလီၢ် အိၣ်ဖဲတၢ်ကပၤ အၤ—လၢခံကတၢၢ်တိတိးထံၣ်တၢ်ကျိၤလၢကပိာ်ထွဲဃုထံၣ်န့ၣ်က့ၤအီၤလံ--
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Moti, the dog took pity on him. He barked and looked towards the store nearby. Ah! Toto finally had a lead.
တိတိးအိးထီၣ်တၢ်ဆါတၢ်ပှၤအတြဲၤလၢအချ ကွၢ်ကွၢ် ကိကိးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအီၣ်သကွံမု၁်ကဆု အိ—အမၤတၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ် ဘၣ်အၢဘၣ်သီလၢာ်လံတိတိးကတိၤတၢ်တထီၣ်ဘးလၢၤဘၣ် ကွၢ်ထံဃီၤတၢ်ဆူကိကိးအအိၣ်
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Toto flung open the door of the store. There was Gogo, happily munching on bananas. What a big mess Gogo had made! Toto just stared at him, not able to say a word!
ဖိသၣ်သ့ၣ်ဧၢ သုဆိကမိၣ်အဲၣ်ဒီးမၤတၢ်လၢတၢ်ဟ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိ လၢတၢ်ကွၢ်ကီအလီၢ်စ့ၢ်ဧါ မ့မၤဘၣ်တၢ်လၢ တၢ်ဟ်ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိလၢတၢ်ကွၢ်ကီအလီၢ်သုဆိကမိၣ်လၢတၢ်မၤဒ်လဲၣ်တဖၣ်လဲၣ် လၢကမၤသးဖှံပှၤအါကတၢၢ် ဒီးသုသ့ၣ်ညါစ့ၢ်ဧါလၢတၤအုးဖးဒိၣ်အီၣ်သကွံတဘျီပှဲၢဖျၣ်လဲၣ် သုဝဲဒၣ်မီၤသုအီၣ်သကွံပှဲၤ ဖျၢၣ်လဲၣ်
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Dear Reader, Would you like to work in a zoo? What would be the most fun to do, if you worked in a zoo? How many bananas do you think a gorilla can eat in one sitting? How many bananas do you eat?
Words in this story
- တိto hit
- ဆိကမိၣ်to think
- ခူသူၣ်secret
- လၢin, at
- ကိးto call
- ကwill (future marker)
- ဃ့ၢ်to run
- နyou, your
- ဆူto, towards
- ပှၢ်to be old (of people)
- ပူၤhole
- တၢၢ်ant
- လီၤto go down
- အဝဲhe, she
- ကွၢ်ဃုto look for
- တၢ်thing
- သ့ၣ်tree
- ပwe, our
- ဒၢdrum
- အကျါamong
- ဒီးand
- တnot (negative prefix)
- ဒဲးto pluck
- ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိanimal
- ကွၢ်to look
- ထံwater
- စူၢ်to suck
- ဘၣ်ဆၣ်but
- ဃုsix
- ဘၣ်to hit
- ဟံးto take, hold
- ထီၣ်to go up
- မဲာ်ထံကလၤmirror
- ပီၤbamboo container
- ဖျါto be visible
- အhis, her, its
- ယံၤto be far
- ဃီၤcoconut
- ကုၤmushroom
- ကပၤside, edge; near
- မ့ၢ်to be
- အိၣ်to be, to have
- ဝၢ်to row
- အဂၤother
- ဧါ(yes/no question particle)
- ထံၣ်to see
- ခီၣ်leg
- လီၢ်field
- သးheart
- ယူၤto fly
- ထံပူၤwell
- ဘၣ်တဘၣ်maybe
- ကီၤto endure, to hold back
- သါto breathe
- အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်to hide
- ကျါamong
- မိၤgong
- ထွံၣ်dog
- ဖိchild
- ဒိးride
- သးကညီၤto pity, have mercy
- အီၤit, him, her
- မီၤto bark
- မဲာ်eye, face
- တၢ်ဆါillness
- ပှ့ၤto buy
- ဖဲnecklace
- လၢခံbehind, later
- ကတၢၢ်the end; the most (superlative)
- တၢ်ကျိၤditch
- ပိာ်to follow
- ထွဲright (side)
- န့ၣ်that
- က့ၤto return
- လံalready (completed)
- အိးထီၣ်to open
- ပှၤperson
- တြဲၤgate, door
- ဆ့ၣ်နီၤto sit
- အီၣ်to eat
- ကွံpool (of water)
- အိoh
- မၤto cause
- မနုၤလဲၣ်what
- ဘၣ်အၢဘၣ်သီfilthy
- လၢာ်to be used up
- ကတိၤတၢ်talk
- ထီၣ်ဘးto reach
- လၢၤwarm
- ဖိသၣ်kid
- သုyou (plural)
- အဲၣ်to love
- ကီdifficult
- တၢ်မၤwork, job
- ဒ်လဲၣ်how
- သးဖှံto be happy
- အါto be many
- သ့ၣ်ညါto know
- တၤအုးmonkey
- ဖးဒိၣ်large
- တဘျီonce
- ပှဲၤto be full
- ဖျၢၣ်(classifier for round things)
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.