“to go back” in Sgaw Karen

က့ၤကဒါက့ၤ

kāy ga dah kāy

to go back

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“to go back” is written က့ၤကဒါက့ၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kāy ga dah kāy. 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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ခးအးအတၢ်မုၢ်လၢ်ဟးဂီၤ ဟီၣ်အမဲာ်ထံလီၤနးနးကလဲာ် က့ၤကဒါက့ၤဆူအသွံဒၣ်၀ဲ
Kaage was very disappointed. Crying bitter tears, she returned to her nest.
from “The Generous Crow”
ဖဲပက့ၤကဒါက့ၤဆူချံးအအိပသူၣ်ကိၢ်သး၀းလၢပထံၣ်ညၢ် ယူၤခီဂာ်ထံ ဒီးညၢ်ကမီသူၣ်ရ့ၤမိၤရၤခံဘ့ၣ် ပိာ်ထွဲအခံစဲသူၣ်လိာ်အသး
As we made our way back to the boat, we were thrilled to see a manta ray ‘flying’ through the water with two remora fish in tow.
from “Dive!”

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