“darkness” in Sgaw Karen
တၢ်ခံး
ta khëe
darkness
“darkness” is written တၢ်ခံး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta khëe. 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
ဆၢတီၢ်ဖဲအက့ၤလၢကျဲအခါန့ၣ် ကနဲဒီဖုညါဟးဖျိးကျဲမ့ၢ်လၢတၢ်ခံးဒိၣ်မး နါကိၢ်လံကိးအသကိးတဖၣ်ဟဲမၤစၢၤအီၤ နါကိၢ်လံတဖၣ်လ့ကပီၤထီၣ်န့ၢ်ကနဲအကျဲ စိဖံသူအမဲၣ်ချံဖးဒိၣ်လၢကကွၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
Flying home in the dark, the bees soon get lost. But Sophy's new friend calls his family to help. A huge swarm of fireflies light the way for the bees.
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →အိၣ်မုာ်ဆိပၢၤ လါဖိလၢအိၣ်ထီၣ်ထီလၢတၢ်ခံးသူအကျါ နမ့ၢ်ပှၤဟ့ၣ်မုၢ်နၤဒ်သိးအသုတခံး
from “Hello” →