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“to be happy” in Sgaw Karen

သးဖှံ

thä hphgee

to be happy

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

“to be happy” is written သးဖှံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thä hphgee. 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

အဝဲဟဲထီၣ်လၢမဲာ်ထံကလၤအပူၤဖဲယမံအခါ ဒီးပလိၣ်ကွဲသကိးလၢတၢ်သးဖှံလီၤ
She comes out of the mirror in my sleep! And we have fun.
from “My Best Friend”
တုၤထီးနၢ်ဟူဘၣ်ဃးတၢ်အီၣ်မၤတၢ်သူၣ်ဖှံသးဖှံ အ၀ဲဆိကမိၣ်၀ဲ ယနၢၤတအိၣ်ဘၣ် ယကမၤဒ်လဲၣ်
When the pig heard about the party, he thought, "I want to go to the party, too. But I don't have horns. What can I do?"
from “No Pigs Allowed”

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