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“to be old (of people)” in Sgaw Karen

ပှၢ်

phga̱

to be old (of people)

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“to be old (of people)” is written ပှၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as phga̱. 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.

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တနီၤန့ၣ်မ့ၤပှၤသးပှၢ်
Some of my friends are old.
from “My Friends”
ကဆီထံဃ့၀ံသးစူပဒဲ ယ၀ံသးစူနၤသပှၢ်တၢၢ် သးကညီၤပျၢ်န့ၢ်ယတၢ်ကမၢ်နီၤ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ပဒဲတကနၢ်ဘၣ် ဒီးဃါကဆီထံနပာ်သးယီၢ်ယခီၣ် မုၢ်တနံၤနကသ့ၣ်ညါ လၢနကဘၣ်လီးက့ၤလီၤ
Hippo apologised to Rabbit, "I’m so sorry. I didn’t see you. Please forgive me!" But Rabbit wouldn’t listen and he shouted at Hippo, "You did that on purpose! Someday, you’ll see! You’re going to pay!"
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair”

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