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“to move closer” in Sgaw Karen

သုးဘူး

thü boö

to move closer

“to move closer” is written သုးဘူး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thü boö. 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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တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိ နၢ်ဟူတၢ်သးဝံၣ်ဒီး သုးဘူးလီၤအသး စီၤကါကးဒီးဒံနိး သူၣ်ခုသးခု ကွၢ်တၢ်အၢၣ်ဖိဒီး မ့ၢ်တၢ်လီၤနံၤလီၤ!

The clouds hear the song. The clouds come in. Kaka and Dinoo are glad. Funny clouds!

from “Sing in the Rain”

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