“to understand” in Sgaw Karen
နၢ်ပၢၢ်
na puh
to understand
Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.
“to understand” is written နၢ်ပၢၢ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as na puh. 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
အက့းမုၢ်ဖီၣ်ထီၣ်အစုဒီးတဲ၀ဲၤ "ခဲအံၤယဆိမိၢ်လၢယနၢ်ပၢၢ်ကၠီးလံၤ" "တၢ်လၢနအဲၣ်တၢ်ဖးလံာ်န့ၣ် ဒုးကဲးထီၣ်လၢတၢ်မိၢ်ဖးယသးလၢလံာ်စံၣ်ကီးလီၤ
His baby sister takes his hand "Now I think I understand." "The way you love to read a book … Makes me want to take a look."
from “Little Ant's Big Plan” →