တၢ်ပြၢ
The Race
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ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဲဆၢအီၤ ဟဲက့ၤမၤကွၢ်လၢမုၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးနံၤမီၤ
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The snail said, "Come and see on Sunday."
ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤကတီၤပာ်ကၠးခိအဘ့ၣ်တကယၤဒီးကွဲးတၢ်ကတိၤတထံၣ်လီၤဂာ်လီာ်သးလၢကၠးခိလိၤကီးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲးလီၤ
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The snail prepared a hundred pieces of paper and wrote the same message on them.
ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤဆှၢလီၤကၠးခိတဖၣ်ဆူအသကီးအအိၣ်ဒီးတဲဘၣ်အဝဲသ့ၣ် ဖဲပဒဲဟဲကီးယၤပဝဲတဖၣ်တဖျၢၣ်လၢ်လၢ်ကဘၣ်တဲဘၣ်အီၤ ယၤယမ့ၢ်ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ
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The snail handed out the pieces of paper to his friends and said, "When the rabbit comes here calling me, one of you must say: I am the snail."
ဝံၤအလီၢ်ခံချိၢ်တဲဘၣ်အသကီးတဖၣ်လဲၤအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအလီၢ်ခံတၢ်လီၢ်ဖဲပဒဲဒီးချိၢ်ပလ့ၤကဘၣ်လဲၤခီဖျိဝဲန့ၣ်လီၤ
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Then the snail told his friends to hide behind the bushes where the rabbit and the snail were to pass.
လၢမုၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးနံၤပဒဲဟဲတုၤဒီးတိကီးချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ ပဒဲတဲဝဲ ဟဲဲပကပြၢလီာ်သး ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယကနၢၤနၤနီၢ်ကီၢ်လီၤ
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On Sunday, the rabbit arrived and found the snail. The rabbit said, "Let´s have a race. But I will win."
ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖၣ် ရဲၣ်လီၤအသး လၢသ့ၣ်ထူလီၢ်ခံဖဲတၢ်ပြၢအကျိၤ ဒ်သိဖဲပဒဲဟဲတုၤတဘျီလၢ်လၢ် ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖၣ် ကကီးဖှးထီၣ် ယၤယမ့ၢ်ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ ဖဲတၢ်ပြၢအခါ ပဒဲကီးထီၣ် ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤဧၢ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤဧၢ
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Snails lined up behind trees on the racing track so that each time the rabbit passed, a snail would shout, ‘I am the snail…’ During the race, the rabbit called out, "Snail! Snail!"
ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖျၢၣ်အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအလီၢ်ခံတဲဆၢတၢ် ယၤယမ့ၢ်ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ ယၤယမ့ၢ်ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ
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One of the snails hidden behind the bushes answered, "I am the snail! I am the snail!"
လၢခံကတၢၢ် ပဒဲတၢ်ဘှံးအသးဒိၣ်မး အဝဲမံနီၤဒီးတဲဝဲ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ တၢ်ဘှံးယသးဒိၣ်မး နနၢၤတၢ်လံ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖျၢၣ်ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်လၢသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအလီၢ်ခံ
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Finally, the rabbit was very tired. He lay down, saying, "Snail, I am so tired; you have won." One snail watched from behind the bush.
လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိချိၢ်ပလ့ၤမၤနၢၤတၢ်ပြၢမ့ၢ်လၢအတၢ်ကူာ်သ့လီၤ
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So the snail won the race because he was clever!
Words in this story
- ပwe, our
- တဲto tell
- ဆၢto be sweet
- အီၤit, him, her
- ဟဲက့ၤto come back
- မၤကွၢ်to try, to test
- လၢin, at
- မုၢ်sun
- အိၣ်ဘှံးto rest
- နံၤday
- မီၤto bark
- ကတီၤshield
- ပာ်to put
- အဘ့ၣ်skin, peel
- တကယၤone hundred
- ဒီးand
- ကွဲးto write
- တၢ်ကတိၤword
- တnot (negative prefix)
- ထံၣ်to see
- လီၤဂာ်seem
- သးheart
- လိၤto be straight
- ကီးisland
- ဘ့ၣ်to take off (clothes)
- ဒဲးto pluck
- လီၤto go down
- ဆှၢto lead, send
- ဆူto, towards
- အhis, her, its
- အိၣ်ဒီးto have
- ဘၣ်to hit
- အဝဲသ့ၣ်they
- ဖဲnecklace
- ပဒဲrabbit
- ဟဲto come
- ယၤme
- ဖျၢၣ်(classifier for round things)
- ကဘၣ်must
- ယI, my
- မ့ၢ်to be
- ဝံၤto finish
- လီၢ်ခံbehind
- လဲၤto go
- အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်to hide
- သ့ၣ်tree
- ဒၢdrum
- တၢ်thing
- လီၢ်field
- ခီside
- ဖျိthrough
- န့ၣ်that
- ဟဲတုၤto arrive
- တိto hit
- ကwill (future marker)
- ဘၣ်ဆၣ်but
- နၢၤhorn
- နၤnight
- နီၢ်ကီၢ်to be true
- ထူgold
- တၢ်ပြၢcompetition
- သိsheep
- တဘျီonce
- ထီၣ်to go up
- အခါwhen, while
- လၢခံbehind, later
- ကတၢၢ်the end; the most (superlative)
- ဘှံးtired, weary
- သးဒိၣ်angry
- မးvery, really
- အဝဲhe, she
- မံနီၤto lie down
- နyou, your
- လံalready (completed)
- ကွၢ်to look
- ဃီၤcoconut
- လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိtherefore
- မၤနၢၤto win, overcome
- မ့ၢ်လၢbecause
- ကူာ်to chop
- သ့to wash
From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 3.0.