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“to wait” in Sgaw Karen

ခိး

khoḧ

to wait

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“to wait” is written ခိး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as khoḧ. 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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တနွံပူၤကွံာ် … အဝဲအနူအ့ၣ်တအိၣ်လၢၤဘၣ်! ဒံဖယၤ အဲၣ်ဒိးထံၣ်အသကိးကိးဂၤဒဲးတုၤဒၣ်လဲၣ်ခိးဝဲတကဲလၢၤဘၣ်!
A week later… No more sniffles! Divya can’t wait to see all her friends!
from “Sniffles”
အိၣ်တကၠိၢ် ကၠိး၀ၣ်ဃးတဘ့ၣ်ဟဲယူၤ၀း၀းဒီးထံၣ်စိၣ်ဃၤအိၣ်လၢကျဲဃၢၤ အထံၣ်ကၠ့ဒီးဘုခ့ချံအိၣ်လၢစိၣ်ဃၤပူၤဒ်န့ၣ်သိး အကယၢ်ထီၣ်အဒံးမၤဘၢစိၣ်ဃၤ ခိးတုၤမူခိၣ်ယီၤစိၣ်ဃၤ
A little while later, Vulture was flying around and spotted the basket on the side of the road. He saw that there was money and maize in the basket. So he covered the basket with his wings and waited for the rain to stop.
from “Anansi and Vulture”

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