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“for (someone's) sake” in Sgaw Karen

အဂီၢ်

a ghaw

for (someone's) sake

“for (someone's) sake” is written အဂီၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as a ghaw. 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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ယအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆိၣ်ကမိၣ်လၢအဂ့ၤလံ ယကဟံးန့ၢ်တၢ်ခီၣ်ရံးဒီကူၢ် ဒ်သိးကလဲၤတၢ်ချ့ထီၣ်အဂီၢ်!

I just got an idea. I am going to get a set of WHEELS to move faster!

from “Busy Ants”

တၢၢ်ကၢ်ဃၢတဖၣ် တဘ့ၣ်ဒီးတဘ့ၣ်အ၀ဲၤဒၣ်ပာ်ဖှိၢ်တၢ်လၢအဃုၤထံၣ်န့ၣ်၀ဲၤလၢအမ့ၢ်၀ဲၤတၢ်အီၣ်လၢတၢ်ဂၢၢ်ခါအဂီၢ်

The other ants took what they found to store for winter underground.

from “Little Ant's Big Plan”

More Everyday words words

ကwill (future marker)ကဆီမဲivoryကတီၤshieldကတၢၢ်the end; the most (superlative)ကဒီးagainကဒုdimကဒဲကဒဲeach otherကနဲဃိးbeeswax