“to be true” in Sgaw Karen
နီၢ်ကီၢ်
naw kaw
to be true
“to be true” is written နီၢ်ကီၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as naw kaw. 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
လၢမုၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးနံၤပဒဲဟဲတုၤဒီးတိကီးချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ ပဒဲတဲ၀ဲ ဟဲဲပကပြၢလီာ်သး ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယကနၢၤနၤနီၢ်ကီၢ်လီၤ
On Sunday, the rabbit arrived and found the snail. The rabbit said, "Let´s have a race. But I will win."
from “The Race” →တၢ်နီၢ်ကီၢ်မ့ၢ်ပလီဖီးစလဲန်တဖျၢာ်ဃီလၢဒံၣ်ဒူၣ်ဖိကိးဂၤစုာ်လီၤသ့ၣ်ထူးမဲလၢအပူၤပာ်ဖံအနီလၢအမဲဘီဒီးသူလၢအသ့ၣ်ထူးမဲကၢကီာ်လိာ်သးဒီးအမဲန့ၣ်လီၤ
from “How Does the Toothpaste Get into the Tube?” →