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 9

Vocabulary

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; but; nevertheless, indicating contrast

မိတ်ဆွေကို

mait hswe gyo — Friend (object marker attached); referring to a friend

တရားဝင်

tayaa win — Official; legal; legitimate; formally recognized

ခုခံချင်

khu khan chin — Want to resist; desire to oppose or defend

သောကြောင့်

thaw kyaung — Because of; therefore; for that reason

သူသည်

thu thit — He/she is; third person subject with topic marker

ဤ

i — This; a formal demonstrative pronoun for proximity

နည်းလမ်းကို

nee lan gyo — Method; way; approach (with object marker)

ကျွန်းသား

kyun tha — Island native; person originating from an island

ကျော်ကြားသော

kyaw kya thaw — Famous; renowned; well-known; celebrated

က

ka — Subject marker particle; indicates the doer of action

သူ့

thu — His; her; possessive form of third person pronoun

စိတ်ထဲသို့

seit hset thoe — Into the mind; into one's heart or thoughts

ထည့်သွင်း

hteh thwin — To insert; to put into; to introduce into something

ပေးခဲ့ကြောင်း

peh khe kyaung — That (someone) gave; reported giving of something

ဝန်ခံ

wun khan — To admit; to confess; to acknowledge something

ခဲ့သည်

khe thit — Did (past tense marker); completed action in the past

ထိုသူသည်

thoe thu thit — That person; he/she (referring to previously mentioned person)

နှစ်ပေါင်း

hnit paung — Total years; combined number of years

နှစ်ဆယ်

hnit hsay — Twenty; the number twenty (years or items)

ကျော်မျှ

kyaw myar — More than; over; exceeding a certain amount

ကြာခဲ့ပြီးသော

kya khe pyi thaw — Having elapsed; that has already passed (time)

ကာလတွင်

ka la twin — During a period; within a span of time

ရောက်ရှိ

yauk shi — To arrive; to reach; to be present at a place

လာခဲ့ပြီး

la khe pyi — Having come; came and then (sequential past action)

စကားဝိုင်းတွင်

saka wain twin — In a conversation; within a discussion or dialogue

မိတ်ဆွေအား

mait hswe ah — To a friend; addressing or giving to a friend

သူ၏

thu yay — His; her; belonging to that person

နိုင်ငံ၌

naing ngan naik — In the country; within the nation or state

မည်သည့်

myi thit — Whichever; whatever; any (interrogative adjective)

လူငယ်

lu ngay — Young person; youth; young man or woman

မဆို

ma hsoe — Any; whatever; regardless of which one

သေဒဏ်

theh dan — Death penalty; capital punishment; execution sentence

ပေးခံရပါက

peh khan ya pa ka — If subjected to; if one receives (punishment)

အစောင့်အကြပ်

a saung a kyat — Guard; warden; one who watches or supervises closely

သမားသည်

tha ma thit — The person (with occupation suffix); that practitioner

အလောင်းကို

a laung gyo — The corpse; the dead body (with object marker)

မြင့်မြတ်

myint myat — Noble; exalted; highly respected; of high status

သောသူများအား

thaw thu mya ah — To those who are; addressing a group of people

အထူး

a htoo — Special; particular; especially; extraordinary

ဟင်းလျာ

hin lya — Dish; food dish; cooked food item or meal

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item or unit

အဖြစ်

a phyit — As; in the role of; in the capacity of

ရောင်းချ

yaung cha — To sell; to offer for sale; to vend

ကြောင်း

kyaung — That (reported speech marker); indicating reported information

ပြောခဲ့သည်

pyaw khe thit — Said; spoke; told (past tense of to say)

ထို့ပြင်

thoe pyin — Furthermore; besides; in addition to that

ဧကရာဇ်ကို

eika yat gyo — The emperor/monarch (object marker); referring to a king

အဆိပ်ခတ်ရန်

a hseit khat yan — To poison; to administer poison to someone

ကြိုးပမ်း

kyoe pan — To strive; to attempt; to make an effort

မှုကြောင့်

hmu kyaung — Because of the matter/case; due to an incident

လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်

let wa khat tine — Cross; crucifixion cross; wooden cross for execution

တင်ခံရသော

tin khan ya thaw — Being placed upon; subjected to; put on something

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with; alongside

အသက်

a thet — Age; life; years of age; one's lifespan

ဆယ့်ငါးနှစ်

hsay nga hnit — Fifteen years; the age or duration of fifteen years

ရှိသော

shi thaw — That exists; having; which has or possesses

မိန်းကလေး

main ka lay — Girl; young female; a female child or young woman

တစ်ဦး၏

tit oo yay — Of one person; belonging to a single individual

ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာကို

ko khan da gyo — The body; physical body (with object marker)

ကောက်ကာ

kauk ka — Picking up; gathering; collecting while doing something else

နန်းတော်

nan daw — Royal palace; the palace of a king or emperor

အမတ်ကြီးများအား

a mat kyi mya ah — To the senior ministers; addressing high officials

လေးရာ

lay ya — Four hundred; the number four hundred

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by means of; using; by (instrumental particle)

ခဲ့ကြောင်း

khe kyaung — That (someone) did; reported past action marker

ဆိုသည်

hsoe thit — Says; states; it is said; referring to a statement

မြို့တွင်

myoe twin — In the city; within a town or urban area

ငွေကြေး

ngway kyay — Money; currency; financial means

တစ်ဆယ်

tit hsay — Ten; the number ten (of any unit)

မျှပင်

myar pin — Even just; as little as; merely that amount

မပိုင်ဆိုင်ဘဲ

ma pine hsine beh — Without owning; without possessing anything at all

ကုလားထိုင်

ku la htine — Chair; a seat; piece of furniture for sitting

မပါလျှင်

ma pa shin — If without; if not having; in the absence of

အပြင်

a pyin — Outside; exterior; beyond; outside of something

ထွက်၍

thwet yway — Going out; exiting and then; having gone outside

မရ

ma ya — Cannot; unable to; not possible to obtain

ဘယ်သောအခါမှ

beh thaw a kha hma — Never; at no time; not at any point

ငွေ

ngway — Money; silver; currency; financial resource

မပေးနိုင်

ma peh nine — Cannot give; unable to pay or provide money

မည့်

myi — Will; future tense marker; that will happen

နိုင်ငံ

naing ngan — Country; nation; state; sovereign territory

ရပ်ခြား

yat cha — Foreign land; abroad; another country or region

ဝတ်ပုဆိုးများ

wut pu hsoe mya — Garments; items of clothing; traditional longyis or dress

ပြဇာတ်ရုံ

pya zat youn — Theater; playhouse; venue for dramatic performances

အစည်းအဝေးများသို့

a si a way mya thoe — To meetings; toward assemblies or gatherings

တက်ရောက်

tat yauk — To attend; to participate; to be present at

နေသော

nay thaw — Living; residing; that continues to stay or be

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that; which; who (adjectival)

အချို့ကို

a choe gyo — Some (object); certain ones; a few of them

ထိုနည်းတူ

thoe nee tu — Likewise; similarly; in the same way

အသုံးပြု

a thone pyu — To use; to utilize; to make use of something

ခဲ့လျှင်

khe shin — If (one) had done; conditional past tense marker

နိုင်ငံတော်သည်

naing ngan daw thit — The state/nation (topic); referring to the government formally

ပို

po — More; increasingly; to a greater degree

ဆိုးလာ

hsoe la — To worsen; to become worse; deteriorating

မည်

myi — Will; future auxiliary marker; shall happen

မဟုတ်ကြောင်း

ma hout kyaung — That it is not; reporting that something is untrue

ငါ

nga — I; me; first person pronoun (informal register)

မငြင်းနိုင်

ma nyinn nine — Cannot deny; unable to refute or dispute something

ပေ

peh — Indeed; emphatic particle; expressing certainty or concession

စိတ်ဓာတ်

seit dat — Morale; spirit; mental attitude; psychological state

ကျရှုံ့

kya shoun — To fall; to collapse; to lose morale; to fail

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third person pronoun

အချို့သည်

a choe thit — Some (of them); certain ones as the subject

အိုမင်းခြင်း

o min chin — Old age; the state of being elderly; aging

ရောဂါ

yaw ga — Disease; illness; sickness; medical condition

ဝေဒနာ

way da na — Pain; suffering; physical or emotional anguish

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively; either/or conjunction

မသန်မစွမ်း

ma than ma swan — Disabled; incapacitated; unable to function normally

ဖြစ်ခြင်း

phyit chin — The state of being; occurrence; the fact of becoming

တို့ကြောင့်

toe kyaung — Because of these (plural); due to those reasons

ဒုက္ခ

douk kha — Suffering; hardship; trouble; distress; misery

ရောက်နေသော

yauk nay thaw — Who are experiencing; that have fallen into (a state)

ဆင်းရဲသား

sine yeh tha — Poor person; one living in poverty; pauper

အများအပြား

a mya a pya — Many; a great number; numerous people or things

အတွက်

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

အလွန်

a lwan — Very; extremely; exceedingly; to a great degree

စိုးရိမ်

soe yim — To worry; to be anxious; to fear or be concerned

ပူပန်

pu pan — To be troubled; to be anxious; to feel uneasy

နေကြသည်

nay kya thit — They are (doing); plural ongoing action marker

ထို့ကြောင့်

thoe kyaung — Therefore; for that reason; consequently

နိုင်ငံတော်၏

naing ngan daw yay — Of the nation/state; belonging to the government

မနှစ်မြို့ဖွယ်

ma hnit myoe phway — Unpleasant; disagreeable; not enjoyable; burdensome

ဝန်ထုပ်ကို

wun htout gyo — The burden; load (with object marker); heavy burden

သက်သာ

thet tha — To relieve; to ease; to make lighter or comfortable

စေရန်

say yan — In order to cause; so as to make something happen

ကျင့်သုံး

kyint thone — To practice; to implement; to apply a method

နိုင်မည်ကို

nine myi gyo — That (one) will be able to; the ability to do

ကျွန်ုပ်

kya naw — I; me; first person pronoun (formal/polite register)

စဉ်းစား

sin sa — To consider; to think about; to deliberate carefully

ပေးရန်

peh yan — In order to give; for the purpose of providing

တောင်းဆို

taung hsoe — To request; to demand; to ask for something formally

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix; turning a verb into a noun form

ခံရသည်

khan ya thit — To receive; to undergo; to be subjected to something