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“once” in Sgaw Karen

တဘျီ

ta blaw

once

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

“once” is written တဘျီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta blaw. 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

ဘၣ်တဘျီဘျီယတံၤသကိး ကိးလူကိးဖှးလၢမုၢ်နၤခါ ဖဲန့ၣ်အဆၢကတီၢ်ယမံယဲဘှ့ၣ်ဘှ့ၣ်ဘှီၣ်ဘှီၣ်လီၤ
My friends sometimes make a lot of noise at night. By then I am quietly in bed.
from “Clean Cat”
မ့ၢ်တၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိလၢအလီၤလး လၢပှၤနာ်အီၤတသ့ဘၣ် ယအိၣ်ခိးကွၢ်လၢ်တၢ်ယူၤထံဆူညါတဘျီသူၣ်တကဲဘၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
What an incredible experience! I can’t wait to go diving again!
from “Dive!”

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