“to rain” in Sgaw Karen
စူၤ
soō
to rain
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to rain” is written စူၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as soō. 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
မူခိၣ်စူၤလီၤ ဒီးအဝဲသူသကိးကဒၢမုၢ် ဒီးလဲၤသကိးဆူသဝီၤပူၤ ဒီးအဝဲသးဝံၣ်သကိးတၢ် ဒီးစံးဘျုးက့ၤမူခိၣ်ထံန့ၣ်လီၤ!
The rain comes down. They share an umbrella. They go on to the village. And they sing: Thank you for the rain!
from “Sing in the Rain” →အူး!.. အအံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်လၢအရ့ဒိၣ်! ယအဲၣ်ဒိးလဲၤမၤတၢ်မၤဖးဒိၣ်! ယကလဲၤချ့ဒံးကဘီယူၤ... ဝံသစူၤပျဲယကျဲ အိၣ်နီးယကျဲတဂ့ၤ!
Oops! This is urgent! I DO want to go for the big job! Here I come, like a rocket... DO please give way, DON'T stand in my way!
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