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“to promise” in Sgaw Karen

အၢၣ်လီၤ

ùh lāw

to promise

“to promise” is written အၢၣ်လီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as ùh lāw. 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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This word in a story

“ဖိခွါဧၢနအဲၣ်ဒိးမၤတံာ်တာ်ပၢ်ဒ်ဧါ” အပၢ်သံကွၢ်အီၤ “ယတမၤတံာ်တာ်လၢဘၣ် ယအၢၣ်လီၤ”

from “The Storybook Princess”

စါထ့သးဟးဂီၤဖဲထံၣ်ယမိၢ်ဟီၣ် ယကွၢ်လီၤဂာ်လၢစါထ့အဲၣ်ယမိၢ် စါထ့တဲမုာ်ထီၣ်ယမိၢ်အသး"မုၢ်ဂၢ်ဧၢဟီၣ်လၢၤတဂ့ၤယအၢၣ်လီၤလၢယတမၤဆဲးအဲးပြာ်လၢၤဘၣ်ယကကွၢ်ထွဲပြာ်အခံလၢကၠိတနံၤအံၤဒီးဆူညါ"

from “Prach and Sathae”

More Action words words

ကဆှီto be cleanကညီၤgrowlကးတံာ်to close, shutကတိၤto speakကတိၤဆါto mockကတိၤတၢ်talkကတိၤတၢ်ကဖၢလၢto boastကတဲာ်ကတီၤto prepare