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“angry” in Sgaw Karen

သးဒိၣ်

thä dòh

angry

“angry” is written သးဒိၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thä dòh. 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.

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စၤကၠူ အိၣ်ဟံၣ်ဘူးဒီးယၤ အဝဲဂဲၤကလံးယၤ မၤသးဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ယၤမုာ်မး

Sanju lives nearby. He teases me. It makes me very angry.

from “Clean Cat”

လၢခံကတၢၢ် ပဒဲတၢ်ဘှံးအသးဒိၣ်မး အ၀ဲမံနီၤဒီးတဲ၀ဲ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ တၢ်ဘှံးယသးဒိၣ်မး နနၢၤတၢ်လံ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖျၢၣ်ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်လၢသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအလီၢ်ခံ

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.

from “The Race”

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