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“to borrow” in Sgaw Karen

လိၢ်

loẖ

to borrow

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

“to borrow” is written လိၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as loẖ. 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

တယံာ်ဘၣ်ဒီးယဖံဟဲက့ၤလၢအတၢ်ဟးလိၢ်ကွဲ "ကွၢ်လၢန့ၣ်ယဖံတိကီၣ်မတၤတမံၤလၢကရၢၢ်ပူၤလဲၣ်"
Soon granny came back from her walk. "Look what I found in the park."
from “Lost and Found”
တၢၢ်အနီၢ်ပၤမုၣ်လိၢ်ဘၣ်၀ဲၤလၢတၢ်ဖးတၢ်အီၣ်လီၤပှဲၤ၀ဲၤဒီးတၢ်အီၣ် ဒ်န့ၣ်အသိးတၢၢ်တဖၣ်ကဘၣ်ဃုတၢ်အီၣ်တုၤန့ၣ်အါအါလီၤ
The Queen wants food to fill the store, so all the ants must work some more.
from “Little Ant's Big Plan”

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