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Cuội may cung trang

Cuoi and the moon

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Cuội la     moot eng-gyan ton. 

Cuoi was  one   boy          poor

"Cuoi was a poor boy."

 

Hang ngai eng noh   pao    ru       chat cun         to      ban le     thien    soong.

Every day  boy DET  enter  forest  cut  firewood  DET  sell  take money  live

"Every day, he went to the forest to collect the fire wood to sell for a living."

 

Moot hoom, troong nooc       tang     chat cun         thi     thaay moot pay    khan con    tang     rau 

One  noon  while    moment  PROG  cut  firewood  DET  see    one   group tiger  small  PROG play

kheenh noo noh.

near      boy DET

"One day, while he was collecting fire wood, he saw a group of small tigers playing nearby,"

 

eng noh  ngi    la phai  diet lu     khan con    no    vi             chung se    nguy-hieem cho  ngai-jaan

boy DET think  is must kill  DET tiger  small DET because   they    FUT dangerous   give people

troong lang     troong tuong-lai.

in        village   in        future

"and he thought he had to kill them because he thought that the small tigers could be dangerous for the villagers in the future."

 

jo-do. eng noh  jiet het maay     con         khan con    noh, khoong loo   sau, khan mee

So      boy DET kill all   several  offspring tiger   small DET NEG     long after tiger  mother

ti   mec doo  an  vieen  va   man    Cuoi, Cuoi treo   leen con  oh    kheenh ohi.

go find  food eat return and chase Cuoi  Cuoi climb up    tree DET near      DET

"So, he killed all of the small tigers.  Very soon later, the mother tiger came back and chased Cuoi, and Cuoi climbed up the tree nearby."