“to like, to approve” in Sgaw Karen
ဘၣ်အသး
bà a thä
to like, to approve
“to like, to approve” is written ဘၣ်အသး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as bà a thä. 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
ဖဲခွံၢ်ကတိၤတၢ်အခါ အက့ၢ်အဂီၤလဲလိာ်အလွဲၢ် မီးဖုးဘၣ်အသးပျံၤတၢ် အ၀ဲဃ့လီၤဖးချ့ချ့ ဒီးတခွ့ ဃီၤဆူသ့ၣ်ကဒၢအပူၤလၢအိၣ်သူၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်လီၤ
But suddenly, the chameleon's body changed color! Mod had never seen anything like it. She was frightened and hopped away as quickly as she could.
from “Mod the Toad” →တုၤတၢ်မၤသးဖှံအလီၢ်ကိၢ်ထီၣ် ကနဲဃီးစးထီၣ်လီၤဘှ့း ထီးအနၢၤလီၤဖျု ဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိလၢအိၣ်ဒီးအနၢၤတဖၣ်ဖုးဘၣ်အသး တၢ်တဒုလၢအနၢၤတအိၣ်အံၤမ့ၢ်မတၤလဲၣ် ဟဲဖဲအံၤဘၣ်မနုၤလဲၣ် အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်သံကွၢ်တၢ်
Once the sun rose higher and the day grew warmer, Pig's horns fell off. The horned animals were shocked. "Who’s that with no horns? Why did you come here?" they asked. "I am just a pig," the pig said. "I just wanted to come to the party too."
from “No Pigs Allowed” →