“time” in Sgaw Karen
တၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်
ta hsuh ga taw
time
“time” is written တၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ta hsuh ga taw. 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
ထိၣ်ပှာ်နကသိၣ်လိယၤလၢတၢ်ဂဲၤကလံာ်သ့ဧါ ခါအးသံကွၢ်ထိၣ်ပှာ် ထိၣ်ပှာ်စံး၀ဲသ့သၢၣ် မၤဒ်ယမၤအသိး ခါအးသလၣ်အမဲၢ်ဆူၣ် အ၀ဲခါအခီၣ်ချးတၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်
"Peacock, will you give me dance lessons?" asked Kaage, when she had found him. "Sure," said the peacock. "Just do as I do." Kaage spread her tail feathers. She stepped in time.
from “The Generous Crow” →တၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်လဲၤပူၤကွံာ်ဝဲကွ့ၢ်ကွ့ၢ် အတံၤသကိး မံးဖြးအထံး ယူၤထီထီၣ် ထီထီဆူမူခိၣ် ကၠိထိၤဒီးယူၢ်ယူၤဒီးထံလီၤတဖၣ် တထံၣ်ဘၣ်မုၢ်လၢဘၣ်
from “ထိၤ ထံလီၤစီၤဖျၢၣ်ဒိၣ်” →