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“to throw” in Sgaw Karen

ကွံာ်

kweẹ

to throw

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

“to throw” is written ကွံာ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kweẹ. 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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ကိလူပျံၤဝဲဒီးစံၣ်ကွံာ်ဝဲ အခီၣ်ဘီၣ်လဲၤတူာ်လူာ်ဆူဘးန့ၣ်

Golu ran away scared.

from “Playtime”

တဲနစုအတၢ်ဂ့ၤန့ၣ် ပာ်ကွံာ်အီၤဘျးမကံာ်အီၤလၢနချၢဃံကဂ့ၤတက့ၢ်

Hands! Keep your hands to yourself!

from “We Are All Animals”

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