A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick — Page 8

Vocabulary

သို့သော်

thoh-thaw — However; but; nevertheless, introducing a contrast

ထိုကဲ့သို့

htoh-keh-thoh — Like that; in that manner; such as that

အထူးကောင်းမွန်သော

a-htuu-kaung-mwan-thaw — Especially good; excellent; particularly fine or superior

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit-hswe — Friend; close acquaintance; companion

တစ်ဦး

ta-uu — One person; a single individual (counter for people)

အား

aa — Particle indicating object, direction, or emphasis

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction/preposition)

တန်ဖိုးရှိသော

tan-phoe-shi-thaw — Valuable; worthy; having worth or importance

မိခင်နိုင်ငံချစ်သူ

mi-khin-naing-ngan-chit-thu — Patriot; one who loves their homeland deeply

လေးစားသဖြင့်

leh-zaa-tha-phyin — Because of respect; owing to admiration or reverence

သူ၏

thu-yi — His; her; belonging to him or her (possessive)

အယူအဆများ

a-yuu-a-hsa-myaa — Ideas; opinions; beliefs; viewpoints (plural)

ကျွန်တော်

kya-naw — I; me (formal male first-person pronoun)

လုံးဝ

lonn-wah — Completely; entirely; absolutely; not at all (with negation)

သဘောတူနိုင်မည်

tha-baw-too-naing-mi — Will be able to agree; can consent or concur

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma-hout-beh — It is not so; that is not the case

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kyaung-hma — The reason is; the matter is; because of

ယောက်ျားလေးများ

yout-kyaa-leh-myaa — Boys; young males (plural)

ပတ်သက်၍

pat-thet-yway — Regarding; concerning; in relation to

ကျွန်တော်၏

kya-naw-yi — My; belonging to me (formal male possessive)

အမေရိကန်

a-meh-ri-kan — American; relating to the United States of America

သိကျွမ်းသူ

thi-kywan-thu — Acquaintance; someone one knows but not closely

က

ka — Subject marker particle; indicates the doer of action

များကြိမ်

myaa-kyein — Many times; frequently; on numerous occasions

ကိုယ်တွေ့

ko-twe — Personal; firsthand; directly experienced oneself

အတွေ့အကြုံ

a-twe-a-kyoun — Experience; personal encounter; practical knowledge gained

မှ

hma — From; since; out of (source or ablative marker)

သူတို့၏

thu-toh-yi — Their; belonging to them (third-person plural possessive)

အသား

a-thaa — Meat; flesh; also skin or body tissue

သည်

thi — Is; am; are (present tense verb finalizer particle)

ယေဘုယျအားဖြင့်

yeh-boh-ya-aa-phyin — Generally; in general; broadly speaking

ခြောက်မာ

chout-ma — Dry and hard; tough; lacking moisture or tenderness

၍

yway — Therefore; and so; because (connective/causal particle)

ပိန်သည်

pain-thi — Is thin; is lean; lacking body fat

ဟု

huu — Quotative particle; saying that; called (introduces quote)

ကျွန်တော့်

kya-naw' — My; me (informal variant male possessive/object form)

အာမခံ

aa-ma-khan — Guarantee; assurance; warranty; insurance

ခဲ့သည်

kheh-thi — Past tense marker; did; has done (completed action)

ကျွန်တော်တို့၏

kya-naw-toh-yi — Our; belonging to us (formal male plural possessive)

ကျောင်းသားလေးများ၏

kyaung-thaa-leh-myaa-yi — Of the young students; belonging to the small students

ကဲ့သို့ပင်

keh-thoh-bin — Just like; exactly as; in the same way as

အဆက်မပြတ်

a-hset-ma-pyat — Continuously; without interruption; non-stop

လေ့ကျင့်ခန်း

leh-kyin-kaan — Exercise; practice; physical or skill training session

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; owing to (causal particle)

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thi — Is; exists; to be (general copula verb)

ထို့ပြင်

htoh-pyin — Moreover; furthermore; in addition to that

အရသာ

a-ya-thaa — Taste; flavor; deliciousness of food or drink

မှာ

hma — At; in; on; locative particle indicating place or topic

မကောင်းသဖြင့်

ma-kaung-tha-phyin — Because it is bad; due to being poor or unpleasant

သူတို့

thu-toh — They; them (third-person plural pronoun)

ဝဖောင်းအောင်

wa-pfaung-aung — To make fat; to fatten up; to cause to become plump

ကျွေးမွေးခြင်း

kywe-mwe-jinn — Feeding; nourishing; the act of providing food

ကုန်ကျစရိတ်

koun-kya-za-yeit — Cost; expense; expenditure required for something

မညီမျှပေ

ma-nyi-myah-beh — Is not equal; unequal; not proportionate or fair

ထို့နောက်

htoh-nout — After that; then; subsequently; following that

မိန်းမများ

main-ma-myaa — Women; females (plural noun)

ပတ်သက်၍မူ

pat-thet-yway-muu — As for; regarding; on the topic of (emphatic)

ယူဆသည်မှာ

yuu-hsa-thi-hma — What is assumed is; the opinion held is

နှိမ့်ချသော

hnein-cha-thaw — Humble; modest; lowly in attitude or manner

လျှောက်ထားချက်

hlyout-htaa-chet — Application; claim; statement submitted formally

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by; using; instrumental or means particle

ဆိုလျှင်

hsoh-hlyin — If; if one says; in that case; supposing that

၎င်းတို့

di-toh — They; those; them (formal or written third-person plural)

မကြာမီ

ma-kyaa-mi — Soon; before long; in a short time

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-tain — Oneself; personally; by one's own self

မွေးဖွားသူများ

mwe-pfwaa-thu-myaa — Those who are born; natives; people born somewhere

ဖြစ်လာမည်

phyit-laa-mi — Will become; will come to be; shall turn into

ဖြစ်သောကြောင့်

phyit-thaw-kyaung — Because it is; since it is the case that

ပြည်သူများ

pyi-thu-myaa — Citizens; the people; general public of a nation

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; on behalf of; regarding

ဆုံးရှုံးမှု

hsonn-shoun-hmu — Loss; defeat; the act of losing something

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One thing; a single item (general object counter)

ဖြစ်မည်

phyit-mi — Will be; shall become; future copula

ထင်သည်

htin-thi — Think; believe; suppose; have an opinion

ဆင်ခြင်တုံတရားရှိသော

hsin-chyin-toun-ta-yaa-shi-thaw — Prudent; having wisdom and careful judgment

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people

အချို့

a-choh — Some; certain; a few (of a group)

အလေ့အထ

a-leh-a-hta — Habit; custom; usual practice or routine

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; indicates direct object of verb

ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှု

kyaan-kyout-hmu — Roughness; harshness; brutality; crude behavior

နည်းနည်းမျှ

neh-neh-myah — Even a little; even slightly; not even a bit (with negation)

နီးစပ်သည်

nee-zat-thi — Is close; is near; approximates; is related to

အမှန်မှာ

a-hmant-hma — In truth; in fact; actually; the reality is

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely; excessively; to a great degree

မတရားသဖြင့်

ma-ta-yaa-tha-phyin — Unjustly; unfairly; because of being wrongful or illegal

ဆိုလင့်ကစား

hsoh-lin-ka-zaa — Even if; although; granted that; regardless of

ဝေဖန်တိုက်ခိုက်ရန်

weh-pfan-tite-kite-yan — To criticize and attack; for the purpose of challenging

အသင့်ဖြစ်နိုင်ဖွယ်

a-thint-phyit-naing-pfweh — Likely to be ready; possibly prepared or suitable

မဖြစ်နိုင်သည်

ma-phyit-naing-thi — Is impossible; cannot happen; is not possible

ထိုကြမ်းကြုတ်မှု

htoh-kyaan-kyout-hmu — That roughness; that brutality; that harsh behavior

ဝန်ခံသည်မှာ

wan-khan-thi-hma — What is admitted is; the acknowledgment is that

မည်သည့်

mi-thi — Which; whatever; whichever; any (interrogative/relative)

စီမံကိန်း

si-man-kain — Plan; project; program; organized scheme or design

ကိုမဆို

ko-ma-hsoh — Whatever it may be; no matter which (indefinite)

မည်မျှပင်

mi-myah-bin — No matter how much; however much; to whatever extent

ကောင်းမွန်သော

kaung-mwan-thaw — Good; excellent; fine; of good quality or character

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်

yi-yweh-chet — Intention; purpose; aim; goal or objective

ဆိုစေ

hsoh-zeh — Even if said; let it be; regardless of what is said

အမြဲတမ်း

a-myeh-tan — Always; forever; constantly; at all times

အပြင်းထန်ဆုံး

a-pyin-htan-zoun — The most severe; most intense; strongest (superlative)

ကန့်ကွက်မှု

kan-kwet-hmu — Objection; opposition; protest; act of opposing

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်

phyit-kheh-thi — Was; occurred; happened; took place (past tense)