“to dive” in Sgaw Karen
ယူၤထံ
yoō htee
to dive
“to dive” is written ယူၤထံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as yoō htee. 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
တုၤပပာ်လီၤပသးလၢတၢ်ယူၤထံဘၣ်ကတၢၢ်၀ဲအံၤလီၤ ပထံၣ်ဘၣ်ညၢ်ကညီအီၣ်နီၢ်ပီာ်လဲၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးလီး
And just when we thought this dive couldn’t possibly get any better, we sighted a dugong grazing on some sea grass.
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