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“lazy” in Sgaw Karen

ကၢၣ်

kùh

lazy

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“lazy” is written ကၢၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kùh. 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

ဒီးလါဖိန့ၣ်ကၢၣ်ထီၣ်ယခိၣ်မီၣ် လၢတၢ်သးဖှံပူၤနံၤကမှံၤထီၣ်ဝဲ ဒီးယဲစ့ၢ်ကီးယဘၣ်နံၤကမှံၤဃုာ်ဒီးအီၤန့ၣ်လီၤ
It tried on my cap. The moon smiled happily. I had to smile too.
from “The Moon and the Cap”

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