“this (thing)” in Sgaw Karen
တၢ်အံၤ
ta ēe
this (thing)
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“this (thing)” is written တၢ်အံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta ēe. 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
စံးဒ် စံံးဒ် တၢ်အံၤမတၤလဲၣ် "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" ယမ့ၢ်သကံၤ "သကံၤစံးဆၢ" ယကိးသီၣ်ဖဲမုၢ်လီၤနုၥ် နအဲၣ်ဒီးကဲယသကီးစ့ၢ်ဧါ "ထံကူးသံကွၢ်" န့ၢ်သၢၣ် "သကံၤစံးဆၢ"စိဖံယူၤကပာ်သ့ၣ်ဒ့လၢအဘျးလိာ်အသး ဘၣ်တဒ့ဒ့န့ၣ်က့ၣ်နုာ်ဒီးဘၣ်တဒ့ဒ့က့ၣ်ထီၣ် အဝဲလဲၤယူၤနုာ်လၢသ့ၣ်လၣ်တူၣ်ဖျိလၢသူမူၢ် ပီအီၣ်အီၤ ဒီးအဝဲဘၣ်တိးဒီးထံလၢသ့ၣ်လၢ်လိၤ "အၣ်ဟး တၢ်အံၤဂ့ၤဒိၣ်မးလဲၣ်!"