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“to catch, to hold” in Sgaw Karen

ဖီၣ်

hpaẁ

to catch, to hold

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

“to catch, to hold” is written ဖီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpaẁ. 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

ယအဲၣ်ညၣ်ဖိ ဖဲယထံၣ်အီၤအခါ ယကယူၤလီၤဒီးဖီၣ်န့ၢ်အီၤ
I love fish. When I spot it, I fly down to pick it up.
from “Noisy Crows”
အက့းမုၢ်ဖီၣ်ထီၣ်အစုဒီးတဲ၀ဲၤ "ခဲအံၤယဆိမိၢ်လၢယနၢ်ပၢၢ်ကၠီးလံၤ" "တၢ်လၢနအဲၣ်တၢ်ဖးလံာ်န့ၣ် ဒုးကဲးထီၣ်လၢတၢ်မိၢ်ဖးယသးလၢလံာ်စံၣ်ကီးလီၤ
His baby sister takes his hand "Now I think I understand." "The way you love to read a book … Makes me want to take a look."
from “Little Ant's Big Plan”

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