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“to grow” in Sgaw Karen

ဒိၣ်ထီၣ်

dòh htàw

to grow

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“to grow” is written ဒိၣ်ထီၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as dòh htàw. 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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ဖီအကမူၣ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်ဖိပျံလၢသဲၣ်ဖးလီၤဆုညီ ဖီကမူၣ်ဒုးကဲထီၣ်တၢ်ချံ ကနဲမ့ၣ်ပှၤဆှၢတၢ်လၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်မ့ၢ်လၢအ၀ဲသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အဃိတၢ်မဲတၢ်မါအသီသီအါအါဂီၢ်ဂီၢ်ဒိၣ်ထီၣ်မဲထီၣ်ဃံလၤသကုၤဆးဒးလီၤ
Pollen is the powdery grain on flowers. Pollen helps plants to make seeds. Bees are excellent pollinators. Thanks to them, many new plants grow and sprout all around.
from “Why Do Bees Buzz?”
မူခိၣ်စူၤဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ထုၤထုၤ အ့နဲသံၣ်တၢ်ဂၢၢ်ဒီးဘၣ်ကၠီၣ် အလဲၤကၠံၣ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတဆူ "ယကအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတုၤမူခိၣ်ယီၤ" အ့နဲသံၣ်တဲဒီးအကကၠၢ်"ဒ်လဲၣ်ဒ်လဲၣ်န့ၣ် ယကၠ့အိၣ်၀ဲလၢဘုခ့ချံဖၢလ၁်လၢယကျၢၢ်ဘၢပ၁်"
It started to rain even more heavily. Anansi became cold and wet, so he ran into a hole. "I will stay in this hole until the rain stops," said Anansi to himself. "At least my money is protected by the maize I put on top of it."
from “Anansi and Vulture”

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