တၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံး အတၢ်တိာ်ကျဲၤလၢအဒိၣ်အမုၢ်

တၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံးဖးဒ်ဝဲၤဒၣ်လံာ်ဒ် ဖးဝဲၤဒၣ်ဟါမုၢ်တနံၤ အဖးဝဲၤတုအလၢာ်ဝဲၤမုၢ်တနံၤ

Little Ant would read all day, he’d read and read the day away.

တၢၢ်ကၢ်ဃၢတဖၣ် တဘ့ၣ်ဒီးတဘ့ၣ်အဝဲၤဒၣ်ပာ်ဖှိၢ်တၢ်လၢအဃုၤထံၣ်န့ၣ်ဝဲၤလၢအမ့ၢ်ဝဲၤတၢ်အီၣ်လၢတၢ်ဂၢၢ်ခါအဂီၢ်

The other ants took what they found to store for winter underground.

အမိၢ်အပၢ်သးပှံၢ်အီၤဒိၣ်မး ဒီးတၢၢ်ဖိအဝဲၤဒၣ်သ့ၣ်ညါဝဲၤလၢအတပီးကျိးလၢဘၣ်

His mum and dad got really mad, and Little Ant felt really bad.

ဖဲးလၢသ့ၣ်လၢ်လီၤအကတီၢ် ဖဲးလၢသ့ၣ်လၢ်တဖၣ်လီၤဆှုၤကွံာ်လၢအထူၢ် တၢၢ်တဖၣ်ကဘၣ်ပာ်ဖှိၣ်တၢ်အီၣ်လၢဟီၢ်ခိၣ်အဖးလာ်

In autumn when the leaves fall down, the ants must keep food underground.

တၢၢ်အနီၢ်ပၤမုၣ်လိၢ်ဘၣ်ဝဲၤလၢတၢ်ဖးတၢ်အီၣ်လီၤပှဲၤဝဲၤဒီးတၢ်အီၣ် ဒ်န့ၣ်အသိးတၢၢ်တဖၣ်ကဘၣ်ဃုတၢ်အီၣ်တုၤန့ၣ်အါအါလီၤ

The Queen wants food to fill the store, so all the ants must work some more.

တၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံးတဲးဘၣ်ပှၤလၢတၢ်လီၢ်တဖၣ်လၢအထံၣ်ဝဲၤဖဲးအဖးလံာ်တဖၣ် "တၢ်ဆါအီၣ်မ့ၤအလီၢ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်လၢပလိၢ်ဘၣ် အမ့ၢ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢပှၤအီၣ်တၢ်" လံာ်လၢယဖးတဲးဝဲၤဒ်န့ၣ်"

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

The ants go marching one by one. They march into the setting sun.

ဝံၤဒီးတၢၢ်တဖိဆံးဆံးတဲးထီၣ်ဝဲၤ "ပဝဲၤဒၣ်ကျးအံၤ လၢအံၤမ်အံၤ"

And Little Ant said "Hey, there’s one!"

တၢၢ်တဖၣ် တဘ့ၣ်ဒီးတဘ့ၣ်လဲၤဟးဒီဂ့ၢ် ဆီာ်ကိၣ်ဒီဖျၢၣ် ဆီာ်ကိၣ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်

The ants go marching one by one, carrying a burger, carrying a bun.

တုအက့ၤတုၤလၢအသွံၤ အနီၢ်ပၤမုၢ်အိၣ်ပှဲၤဒီးတၢ်သးခု လၢတၢ်ဖာ်ဖှိၣ်တၢ်အီၣ်အလီၢ်ပှဲၤဝဲၤဒီးတၢ်အီၣ် အဝဲၤဒၣ်ထိၢ်ပှ့ၤထီၣ်အကလုၢ်လၢတၢ်သးခုန့ၣ်လီၤ

When they return the Queen is glad. The stores are full. They cheer like mad.

အမိၢ်အပၢ်ဖီးဟုၤတၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံး

Ant gets hugs from mum and dad.

အက့းမုၢ်ဖီၣ်ထီၣ်အစုဒီးတဲဝဲၤ "ခဲအံၤယဆိမိၢ်လၢယနၢ်ပၢၢ်ကၠီးလံၤ" "တၢ်လၢနအဲၣ်တၢ်ဖးလံာ်န့ၣ် ဒုးကဲးထီၣ်လၢတၢ်မိၢ်ဖးယသးလၢလံာ်စံၣ်ကီးလီၤ

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."