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“to wait” in Sgaw Karen

အိၣ်ခိး

òh köh

to wait

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

“to wait” is written အိၣ်ခိး in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as òh köh. 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

ရှံနၢ်မ့ၢ်ယတံၤသကိးလၢအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ် ယအိၣ်ခိးရှံနၢ်ဖဲအကၠိစံၣ်လီၤအဆၢကတီၢ်လီၤ
Cheena is my best friend. I wait for her to return from school.
from “Clean Cat”
မ့ၢ်တၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိလၢအလီၤလး လၢပှၤနာ်အီၤတသ့ဘၣ် ယအိၣ်ခိးကွၢ်လၢ်တၢ်ယူၤထံဆူညါတဘျီသူၣ်တကဲဘၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ
What an incredible experience! I can’t wait to go diving again!
from “Dive!”

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