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“to marry” in Sgaw Karen

ဖျီ

hplaw

to marry

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

“to marry” is written ဖျီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hplaw. 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

အ၀ဲပာ်ကဖၢအသးလၢအမ့ၢ်တၢ်အခီလၢဟ့ၣ်တၢ်ညီလၢဟံၣ်ဒူၣ်ပူၤ စီး၀ၣ်ဃး၀ၣ်ဃးအဂၤတဖၣ်ထံၣ်လၢခါအးအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်သူၣ်မုာ်သးမုာ်အါမး မ့ၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ် နကဖျီသးဖဲအဆိအံၤဧါ အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်တဲလိာ်ကွဲအီခါအးအမဲာ်ဂီၤထီၣ်
She was proud that she was part of such a generous family. The other crows saw Kaage looking extremely happy with herself. "What is it, Kaage? Are you getting married soon?" they teased. Kaage blushed.
from “The Generous Crow”

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