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“to sew” in Sgaw Karen

ဆး

hsä

to sew

“to sew” is written ဆး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hsä. 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

“ယတအဲၣ်ဆးပၠာ်ဘၣ်” အဝဲကိးဃါတၢ်

"I hate soaps!" she screams.

from “Bunty and Bubbly”

တယံာ်ဘၣ် တၢ်မုၢ်တၢ်ဘိဖိတဖၣ်ကဆူထီၣ်အသးလၢတၢ်ချံ မုၢ်တနံၤအ၀ဲကကဲထီၣ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်ဖးဒိၣ် ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ကထီၣ်သၢကုၤဆးဒး ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ကထီၣ်သၢကုၤဆးဒး

Soon... A tiny little plant will come from the seed. One day it will be a tree. And green grass will grow all around. And green grass will grow all around.

from “The Tree”

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