“to wear (a shirt); expensive” in Sgaw Karen
ကၤ
kā
to wear (a shirt); expensive
“to wear (a shirt); expensive” is written ကၤ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as kā. 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
ညၢ်ကၤတူၤတဖၣ်အံၤကသုပယာ်ပီာ်လဲၣ်ဖီအဒၢးလၢတၢ်ပလီၢ်ပဒီ သနာ်က့အ၀ဲပျဲယၤ လၢကမၤန့ၣ်တၢ်ဂီၤတစဲးလီၤ
These clownfish carefully guarded their sea anemone home, but finally agreed to let me take a few pictures.
from “Dive!” →ယုၢ်တထွ့ထီၣ်လၢချံအလီၢ်ခံ ချံးဟးဃုာ် ဒီးချိၣ်ပလ့ၤ ဒီးထိၣ်ဖှံးဖိ ဒီးထီၣ်မုၢ်နၤဒီးယုၢ်အိၣ်လၢအကုလိၤအ၀ဲသ့ၣ်ဃုဒီးဃုဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒကၤအတၢ်ပနီၢ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ် ကလံၤအူကွံာ်သ့ၣ်လၣ်လၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်လိၤသ၀ံးအသး၀းတရံးချံး
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