“a moment” in Sgaw Karen
တစိၢ်ဖိ
ta soh hpoh
a moment
“a moment” is written တစိၢ်ဖိ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta soh hpoh. Knyaw helps you read and understand words, not say them out loud. Karen is a tone language, so the English-letter sounds are only a rough help.
This word in a story
ပပိာ်ချံးတဘ့ၣ်အခံတစိၢ်ဖိလံ ဖဲအ၀ဲကွၢ်တရံးတၢ်၀းလၢၢ်ဘၣ်အၢဒ် သိးကဃုကုၤပိာ်လဲၣ်လၢအ၀ံာ်ဒ်သိးကကဲတၢ်အိီၣ်လၢမုၣ်ထူၣ်ခါအဂီၢ်
We followed this hawksbill turtle for a while as he looked around the reef for a nice sea sponge to lunch on.
from “Dive!” →တစိၢ်ဖိဒီး စါထ့ဒီးအပၢ်ဟဲတုၤ စါထ့အမဲာ်လီၤဝါဒိၣ်န့ၢ်အလီၢ် ယမိၢ်ဖုးဘၣ်အသးဖဲထံၣ်ဘၣ်စါထ့ဒီးအပၢ် သရၣ်ကၠိခိၣ်တဲဟ့ၣ်ပှၤကိးဂၤလၢတၢ်လၢယဘၣ်တၢ်မၤဆဲးအဲးယၤ
from “Prach and Sathae” →