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“to stand” in Sgaw Karen

ဆၢထၢၣ်

hsuh htùh

to stand

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

“to stand” is written ဆၢထၢၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hsuh htùh. 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

နထံၣ်ကျီၢ်ဆၢထၢၣ်တမၤတၢ်နီတမံၤလၢနီၢ်ပျီပူၤကၠ့ၢ်ဧါ မ့ၢ်လၢအ၀ဲဆိကမိၣ်ထဲအတၢ်ဂီၤမူဒၢန့ၣ်လီၤ
Did you see Cow standing in a field doing nothing? It is because she is thinking about her TV.
from “Goat, Dog, Cow, and TV”
အအံၤမ့ၢ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ် သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်အိၣ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်လိၤ အဂံၢ်အိၣ်လၤဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ပူၤ ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဖီးဟုဃာ်အဂံၢ် အထူၣ်ဆၢထၢၣ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်လိၤ ဒီးနီၢ်လါဟ့ထီၣ်သကုၤ နီၢ်လါဟ့ထီၣ်သကုၤ
Here is a tree. The tree is on the ground. Its roots are in the soil. Soil covers the roots. The trunk stands above. And branches spread from the trunk. And green grass grows all around. And green grass grows all around.
from “The Tree”

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