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“to want, be interested” in Sgaw Karen

သးအိၣ်

thä òh

to want, be interested

“to want, be interested” is written သးအိၣ် in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as thä òh. 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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ခဲအံၤကဲထီၣ်သ့ၣ်ထူၣ်ဖးဒိၣ် အလၢ်လါအိၣ်အါမးအဒ့ရၤလီၤအသးအိၣ်ဖျါလီၤတံၢ်လီီၤ

Now it's a big tree, leafy and green, Spreading it's branches so it can be seen.

from “The Big Juicy Apple”

ဆိနၤစးထီၣ်ဖးလံာ်ဘၣ်ဃးတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်လၢမ့ၢ်ပိာ်ခွါဖိသၣ်လၢအနီၢ်ဆံးထဲသိးဒီးစုမုၢ် အဝဲဖးတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်အံၤဒီးမၤအါထီၣ်အဒိအတဲာ်ခီဖျိတၢ်သူစု နီၢ်ပၤမုၣ်ဖိဒိကနၣ်ဝဲလၢတၢ်သူၣ်အိၣ်သးအိၣ်အပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤ

from “The Storybook Princess”

More Action words words

ကဆှီto be cleanကညီၤgrowlကးတံာ်to close, shutကတိၤto speakကတိၤဆါto mockကတိၤတၢ်talkကတိၤတၢ်ကဖၢလၢto boastကတဲာ်ကတီၤto prepare