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“to chop” in Sgaw Karen

ကူာ်

koọ

to chop

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

“to chop” is written ကူာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as koọ. 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

လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိချိၢ်ပလ့ၤမၤနၢၤတၢ်ပြၢမ့ၢ်လၢအတၢ်ကူာ်သ့လီၤ
So the snail won the race because he was clever!
from “The Race”
တၢ်မၤကဲထီၣ်ဒီးထီးဆိကမိၣ်လၢအ၀ဲမ့ၢ်ပှၤကူာ်တၢ်သ့ဒိၣ်မး တုၤအ၀ဲန့ၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ခွဲးလၢကလဲၤနုာ်လၢတၢ်သးဖှံအလီၢ် တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲမ့ၢ်၀ဲတၢ်သးဖှံအလီၢ်န့ၣ်အီၣ်ဘူးဒီးမုၢ်စ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
It worked! The pig felt very clever when he was allowed into the party. But the party took place outside in the hot sun.
from “No Pigs Allowed”

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