“difficulty, trouble” in Sgaw Karen
တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲ
ta kaw ta kheh
difficulty, trouble
“difficulty, trouble” is written တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta kaw ta kheh. 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
တၢ်မၤကဲထီၣ်ဒီးထီးဆိကမိၣ်လၢအ၀ဲမ့ၢ်ပှၤကူာ်တၢ်သ့ဒိၣ်မး တုၤအ၀ဲန့ၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ခွဲးလၢကလဲၤနုာ်လၢတၢ်သးဖှံအလီၢ် တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲမ့ၢ်၀ဲတၢ်သးဖှံအလီၢ်န့ၣ်အီၣ်ဘူးဒီးမုၢ်စ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
It worked! The pig felt very clever when he was allowed into the party. But the party took place outside in the hot sun.
from “No Pigs Allowed” →ထိၣ်တဒ်သိးပှၤဘၣ်သနါက့ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တမ့ၢ်တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲဘၣ်
from “Who Is Our Friend?” →