“to cover” in Sgaw Karen
ကျၢၢ်ဘၢ
kluh buh
to cover
“to cover” is written ကျၢၢ်ဘၢ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kluh buh. 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
မူခိၣ်စူၤဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ထုၤထုၤ အ့နဲသံၣ်တၢ်ဂၢၢ်ဒီးဘၣ်ကၠီၣ် အလဲၤကၠံၣ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတဆူ "ယကအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတုၤမူခိၣ်ယီၤ" အ့နဲသံၣ်တဲဒီးအကကၠၢ်"ဒ်လဲၣ်ဒ်လဲၣ်န့ၣ် ယကၠ့အိၣ်၀ဲလၢဘုခ့ချံဖၢလ၁်လၢယကျၢၢ်ဘၢပ၁်"
It started to rain even more heavily. Anansi became cold and wet, so he ran into a hole. "I will stay in this hole until the rain stops," said Anansi to himself. "At least my money is protected by the maize I put on top of it."
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