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“to be funny” in Sgaw Karen

လီၤနံၤ

lāw nēe

to be funny

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

“to be funny” is written လီၤနံၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as lāw nēe. 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

"ယိ-ယိး န့ၣ် အမံၤလီၤနံၤဒိၣ်မး! ပ၈ဲၤလိၢ်ကွဲဲအီၤမုာ်ဒိၣ်မးန့ၣ်လီၤ!
"Yo-yo? What a funny name! What a funny toy! I want to play with it, It gives me so much joy!"
from “Lost and Found”
တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိ နၢ်ဟူတၢ်သးဝံၣ်ဒီး သုးဘူးလီၤအသး စီၤကါကးဒီးဒံနိး သူၣ်ခုသးခု ကွၢ်တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိဒီး မ့ၢ်တၢ်လီၤနံၤလီၤ!
The clouds hear the song. The clouds come in. Kaka and Dinoo are glad. Funny clouds!
from “Sing in the Rain”

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