“to put” in Sgaw Karen
ပာ်
pạ
to put
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to put” is written ပာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as pạ. 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
တဲနစုအတၢ်ဂ့ၤန့ၣ် ပာ်ကွံာ်အီၤဘျးမကံာ်အီၤလၢနချၢဃံကဂ့ၤတက့ၢ်
Hands! Keep your hands to yourself!
from “We Are All Animals” →ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤကတီၤပာ်ကၠးခိအဘ့ၣ်တကယၤဒီးကွဲးတၢ်ကတိၤတထံၣ်လီၤဂာ်လီာ်သးလၢကၠးခိလိၤကီးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲးလီၤ
The snail prepared a hundred pieces of paper and wrote the same message on them.
from “The Race” →