“to eat (something)” in Sgaw Karen
အီၣ်တၢ်
àw ta
to eat (something)
“to eat (something)” is written အီၣ်တၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as àw ta. 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
ထိးအီၣ်တၢ်သ့,ညၣ်ဖိပီၢ်ထံသ့,သၣ်မံၤညီခွ့ၤတၢ်သ့...ဒီးယနီၢ်ကစၢ်ဖးလံၥ်သ့န့ၣ်လီၤ!
Pigs can eat, fish can swim, cats can jump... and I can read!
from “Can and Can't” →တၢၢ်ဖိဆံးဆံးတဲးဘၣ်ပှၤလၢတၢ်လီၢ်တဖၣ်လၢအထံၣ်၀ဲၤဖဲးအဖးလံာ်တဖၣ် "တၢ်ဆါအီၣ်မ့ၤအလီၢ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်လၢပလိၢ်ဘၣ် အမ့ၢ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢပှၤအီၣ်တၢ်" လံာ်လၢယဖးတဲး၀ဲၤဒ်န့ၣ်"
Little Ant begins to shout about a place he read about. "A restaurant is what we need, a place where people go to feed. It says so in the books I read."
from “Little Ant's Big Plan” →