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“to obtain” in Sgaw Karen

မၤန့ၢ်

mā nay

to obtain

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

“to obtain” is written မၤန့ၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mā nay. 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

ဒံဖယၤတအဲၣ်ဒိးသူးထီၣ်နူအ့ၣ်ဒီနံၤဘၣ်! အဝဲကဘၣ်ဂဲၤလိၣ်ကွဲ! ဒ်သိးကမၤန့ၢ်ခိၣ်ဖးတၢ်ပြၢလၢအကတၢၢ်တဝီၤ!
Divya can’t have the sniffles today! She has to PLAY! It’s the finals of the Famous Football Cup!
from “Sniffles”
စိဖံယူၤထီထီၣ်ဒီးတဲဝဲ "ကွၢ်လၢန့ၣ် ယကမၤန့ၣ်ထံဆၢလၢအအါကတၢၢ်!" အဝဲယူၤဖုၣ်လီၤဒီးမၤန့ၢ်ထံဆၢလၢဖီတဖီးဘၣ်တဖီးအအိၣ် အဝဲတကနၣ်ဃုာ်ကနဲအဂၤဘၣ် တဘျီဘျီစိဖံကအီကွၢ်ဖီအထံဆၢစ့ၢ်ကီးလီၤ
The bees work hard gathering nectar. But Sophy is not pleased that no one is paying attention to her. "Look everyone! I have already filled my jar with nectar. I even have enough left over for a snack."
from “Big-Eyed Bee”

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