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“to escape” in Sgaw Karen

ပူၤဖျဲး

poō hplëh

to escape

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

“to escape” is written ပူၤဖျဲး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as poō hplëh. 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

ဂ့ၤလၢပပာ်တၢ်အိၣ်စီၤမုၤလိာ်လူဒ်သိးပကပူၤဖျဲးဒီးညၢ်အံၤအဆုၢ်လၢအလီၢ်ခံအိၣ်ဒီအစုာ်လၢအၢဒိၣ်မး
It’s a good thing we kept a safe distance from this lionfish. The spines on his back can be quite poisonous!
from “Dive!”
စိဖံထံၣ်ပံၣ်ကၠိလၢစဲးဘူးဒီးကပီၤလုၤ အဝဲယူၤကပာ်ကွံာ်ဝဲလၢအချ့ဒ်သိးကပူၤဖျဲးလၢတၢ်စဲးဘူး... ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အခီၣ်တပၤစဲးဘူးဒီးကပီၤလုၤ
But then she notices a mosquito, trapped in the web. Sophy begins to feel nervous about her new friend. She tries to fly away, but one of her legs gets stuck!
from “Big-Eyed Bee”

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