“excellent” in Sgaw Karen
ဂ့ၤဒိၣ်မး
ghāy dòh mä
excellent
“excellent” is written ဂ့ၤဒိၣ်မး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ghāy dòh mä. 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
ဖြံးဖြံး "မိၤဟံး နမၤဂ့ၤဒိၣ်မး!" ဖြံးဖြံး ပူကၠါ "နမၤနဲသ့!"
Sniffle, sniffle. "Well done, Mohit!" Sniffle, sniffle. "You did it, Pooja!"
from “Sniffles” →စိဖံယူၤကပာ်သ့ၣ်ဒ့လၢအဘျးလိာ်အသး ဘၣ်တဒ့ဒ့န့ၣ်က့ၣ်နုာ်ဒီးဘၣ်တဒ့ဒ့က့ၣ်ထီၣ် အဝဲလဲၤယူၤနုာ်လၢသ့ၣ်လၣ်တူၣ်ဖျိလၢသူမူၢ် ပီအီၣ်အီၤ ဒီးအဝဲဘၣ်တိးဒီးထံလၢသ့ၣ်လၢ်လိၤ "အၣ်ဟး တၢ်အံၤဂ့ၤဒိၣ်မးလဲၣ်!"
Sophy flies up through the branches. Sometimes she takes a shortcut through holes in the leaves eaten by worms. She doesn't pay much attention to where she is going.
from “Big-Eyed Bee” →