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“to forgive” in Sgaw Karen

ပျၢ်

pla̱

to forgive

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“to forgive” is written ပျၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as pla̱. 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.

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လၢခံတနံၤန့ၣ်ဖဲယမၤလိတၢ်ကၠိပျၢ်န့ၣ် ယမိၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ယၤလၢခိၣ်မီၣ်ဂီၤကတြ့ာ်အသီတဘ့ၣ် ဒီးတဲယၤလၢလါဖိဟ့ၣ်နၤလီၤ
After school the next day, my mother gave me a shiny new red cap. "The moon sent it," she said.
from “The Moon and the Cap”
ကဆီထံဃ့၀ံသးစူပဒဲ ယ၀ံသးစူနၤသပှၢ်တၢၢ် သးကညီၤပျၢ်န့ၢ်ယတၢ်ကမၢ်နီၤ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ပဒဲတကနၢ်ဘၣ် ဒီးဃါကဆီထံနပာ်သးယီၢ်ယခီၣ် မုၢ်တနံၤနကသ့ၣ်ညါ လၢနကဘၣ်လီးက့ၤလီၤ
Hippo apologised to Rabbit, "I’m so sorry. I didn’t see you. Please forgive me!" But Rabbit wouldn’t listen and he shouted at Hippo, "You did that on purpose! Someday, you’ll see! You’re going to pay!"
from “Why Hippos Have No Hair”

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