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“to be clean” in Sgaw Karen

ကဆှီ

ga hshgaw

to be clean

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

“to be clean” is written ကဆှီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ga hshgaw. 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

ယမၤကဆှီယသးသ့ဒီးတဘၣ်သူဘၣ်ထံဘၣ် ယတဘၣ်လုၢ်ထံဒ်သိး ထီမံၣ် ဘၣ်
I keep myself clean without water. I do not need a bath like Tommy.
from “Clean Cat”
ကိးနံၤဒဲးန့ၣ်ဘၤတံးကသူဆးပၠာ်လုၢ်ထံ ဒီးအဝဲကထူးအမဲဒီးထွါကွံာ်အလိၤတုၤအကဆှဲကဆှီန့ၣ်လီၤ
These days, Bunty likes to use soap, and she brushes and scrubs herself clean.
from “Bunty and Bubbly”

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