“and then” in Sgaw Karen
ဝံၤဒီး
wēe däw
and then
“and then” is written ဝံၤဒီး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as wēe däw. 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
၀ံၤဒီးတၢၢ်တဖိဆံးဆံးတဲးထီၣ်၀ဲၤ "ပ၀ဲၤဒၣ်ကျးအံၤ လၢအံၤမ်အံၤ"
And Little Ant said "Hey, there’s one!"
from “Little Ant's Big Plan” →တုၢ်! ဆိထူခွ့လီၤလၢကိလူအချၢဃံ "ဝီးဧူၤ" ကိလူနံၤဝဲဒၣ်ဝံၤဒီးတဲဝဲ "ယၤဒီးနီၢ် နဲနဘၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ဒီးယကခွ့လီၤလၢနချၢဃံတထံၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီး"
Thump! Chhotu landed on Golu’s back. “Wow!” laughed Golu. “My turn now. You sit down and I will leap on your back.”
from “Playtime” →