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“to be near” in Sgaw Karen

ဘူး

boö

to be near

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

“to be near” is written ဘူး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as boö. 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

ယခိၣ်မီၣ်ယူၤထီၣ်စဲးဘူးဝဲဒၣ်လၢချၢၢ်ဒ့တဒ့အလိၤ
My cap got stuck on a branch of the old Pipal tree.
from “The Moon and the Cap”
စၤကၠူ အိၣ်ဟံၣ်ဘူးဒီးယၤ အဝဲဂဲၤကလံးယၤ မၤသးဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ယၤမုာ်မး
Sanju lives nearby. He teases me. It makes me very angry.
from “Clean Cat”

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