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“to be happy” in Sgaw Karen

သးခု

thä khu

to be happy

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

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

ဖြံးဖြံး "သးခုဃုာ်ဒီးပှၤကိးဂၤဒဲး!"
Sniffle, sniffle. "Congratulations, everyone!"
from “Sniffles”
ပဒဲသးခု လၢကဆီထံအဆူၣ်အူအီၣ် တုၤခဲအံၤ ကဆီထံတအိၣ်ယံၤဒီးထံလၢၤဘၣ်မ့ၢ်လၢၤအပျံၤမ့ၢ်အူ
Rabbit was happy that Hippo's hair was burned. And to this day, for fear of fire, the hippo never goes far from the water.
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair”

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