“to be” in Sgaw Karen
မ့ၢ်
may̱
to be
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to be” is written မ့ၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as may̱. 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
"နၤနုၤ" "မ့ၢ်,ယၤအံၤလီၤ" "နကမၤဒ်လဲၣ်" ဆိထူသံကွၢ်ဝဲ
“You?” asked Chhotu. “Yes, me,” said Golu. “How can you do that?” asked Chhotu.
from “Playtime” →တအိၣ်လၢခုဒုခၢၣ်အဖီလၣ်ဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢယထၢၣ်ပူၤဘၣ် ဧု ဧု မ့ၢ်အလီၤမၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်
Not under the pillow. Not in my bag. Sob, sob, where have you gone?
from “Lost and Found” →