“to tear” in Sgaw Karen
ဖှီ
hphgaw
to tear
“to tear” is written ဖှီ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as hphgaw. 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
ဖဲန့ၣ်န့ၣ် ကနဲဒီဖုဟဲယူၤဃီတုၤ ကနဲတဘ့ၣ်တဲဘၣ်စိဖံလၢ "ယထံၣ်နပာ်တ့ၢ်တၢ်ဆၢထံအဒၢ ယဟးဃုက့ၤနၤ က့ၤပကက့ၤသကိး" ကနဲဒီဖုလူၤအ့ၣ်ဖှီသကိးဆၣ်ဖိကီၢ်ဖိတဖၣ်, ဒီးကွဲးစိဖံဒီးနါကိၢ်လံဃ့ၢ်ကွံာ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
Suddenly, the petals begin to close. They are trapped! A sticky liquid fills up the inside of the flower. "Ugh! I can’t breathe!" shouts the firefly. "We must get out of this place," replies Sophy. She struggles to move, and manages to sting the flower.
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