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“to sit” in Sgaw Karen

ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ

hsày nāw

to sit

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

“to sit” is written ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hsày nāw. 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

ယထီၣ်ခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤသ့လံ
I can climb on a chair.
from “I Can Climb!”
ယဃုကွၢ်လၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီခိၣ် ဒီးလၢခးဆ့ၣ်နီၤအဖီလာ် လီၤမၣ်ဖဲလဲၣ်
I have looked under the chair, I have looked under the stool. Where have you gone?
from “Lost and Found”

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