ကညီKnyaw
Language: English

“to ask for” in Sgaw Karen

ဃ့

xay

to ask for

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

“to ask for” is written ဃ့ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as xay. 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

ပထံၣ်ဘၣ်တံၤတူၤမၢၤရ့ၤကန့ဒၢ ဖဲန့ၣ်အခါ ညၢ်ထိၣ်ကၠၢကွၢ်ထွဲအတၢ်ဆါမၤကဆှီအမဲ ညၢ်အဂၤ တကူၢ်ဟဲဃ့မၤကဆှီပတၢ်
We saw a honeycomb moray eel having its teeth cleaned by cleaner wrasses, and another pair even offered to give us a scrub!
from “Dive!”
ဖဲခွံၢ်ကတိၤတၢ်အခါ အက့ၢ်အဂီၤလဲလိာ်အလွဲၢ် မီးဖုးဘၣ်အသးပျံၤတၢ် အ၀ဲဃ့လီၤဖးချ့ချ့ ဒီးတခွ့ ဃီၤဆူသ့ၣ်ကဒၢအပူၤလၢအိၣ်သူၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်လီၤ
But suddenly, the chameleon's body changed color! Mod had never seen anything like it. She was frightened and hopped away as quickly as she could.
from “Mod the Toad”

More Doing words words