“to believe” in Sgaw Karen
နာ်
nạ
to believe
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to believe” is written နာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as nạ. 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
တဘၣ်နီတမံၤဘၣ် ပဲတြီမ့ၢ်ကးတံၢ်အသးနာ်က့ ယလဲၤနုာ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတဲၢ်ဖးဆံးကဲဖိသ့မီၣ်
Never mind if the door is shut. I can slip through the smallest crack.
from “Busy Ants” →ထီးလၢအလီၤသးကညီၤတဒု အ၀ဲလီၤတဲာ်အနးဒ့လီၤဘၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖျၢၣ် လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိအနးဒ့ဘံၣ်နာ်လီၤ
Poor pig! When he fell, he landed on his nose. And his nose was flattened into a snout.
from “No Pigs Allowed” →