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“to cook” in Sgaw Karen

ဖီ

hpaw

to cook

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

“to cook” is written ဖီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hpaw. 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

တအိၣ်လၢလီၢ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤခိၣ်ဘၣ် တအိၣ်လၢကၠုၣ်ဖီလၣ်ဘၣ်
Not on the sofa. Not under the cot.
from “Lost and Found”
စးထီၣ်လၢဖီဖးထီၣ် ဝံၤကနဲကဟဲဖီးလီာ်အီၤ ကနဲဟဲ၀ံၤအလီၢ်ခံသ့ၣ်ကကၠးထီၣ်သၣ်လီၤ
The apples are picked by my fumbling hands, And put into big baskets to eat or make jams.
from “The Big Juicy Apple”

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