“but, however” in Sgaw Karen
ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒီး
bà hsà däw
but, however
“but, however” is written ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒီး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as bà hsà 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
အုမ်... ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒီးတနံၤအံၤနတီၤ ကလဲၤဟးလိာ်ကွဲကွၢ်ကီတၢ် လၢတၢ်ဖိဃၢ်အလီၢ်!
Hmm... But, today's your class picnic at the zoo!
from “Do and don't” →ဒ့စံၣ် ပကယၢ်ထီၣ်ပဒံးဆ့သ့ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒီးအကီၤဒိၣ်မၤ လၢဆီကယူသ့အဂီၢ် ဆီမိၢ်ပှၢ်တဲအီၤ
from “Amazing Daisy” →