A Room with a View — Page 1

Vocabulary

သည်

theare — Subject marker particle; also present tense marker.

ထိုသို့

hto-tho — In that way; in such a manner; thus.

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-loat — To do, perform, or carry out an action.

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing something.

လုံးဝ

lone-wa — Completely, absolutely, entirely; used for emphasis.

အကြောင်း

a-kyaung — Reason, cause; about or concerning a topic.

မရှိ

ma-shi — There is not; does not exist; absence of something.

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence particle; also means 'also/too'.

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'called'.

မစ္စ

mit-sa — Mrs., honorific title for a married woman.

က

ka — Subject or agent marker particle in a sentence.

ဆို

hso — To say, state, or be called; quotative verb.

ပင်

pain — Emphatic particle meaning 'indeed', 'even', or 'just'.

သူမ

thu-ma — Third-person feminine pronoun meaning 'she' or 'her'.

တောင်ဘက်

taung-bate — South direction; the southern side or area.

မြင်ကွင်း

myin-gwain — View, scene, or panorama visible from a location.

ရှိ

shi — To exist, have, or be present somewhere.

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; attributive particle linking nouns.

အခန်း

a-khane — Room in a building; chapter of a book.

များ

mya — Plural marker; also means 'many' or 'numerous'.

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; indicates direct object of verb.

ကပ်လျက်

kat-lyat — Adjacent to; right next to; closely attached or beside.

ပေး

pay — To give; to provide something to someone.

မည်

myi — Future tense particle indicating something will happen.

ကတိ

ka-ti — Promise, vow, or pledge made to someone.

ခဲ့

khate — Past tense particle; indicates completed past action.

သော်လည်း

thaw-leare — Although, even though; concessive conjunction word.

ယခု

ya-khu — Now, at this time; the present moment.

ဤ

i — Formal demonstrative pronoun meaning 'this' thing.

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place, location, spot, or position somewhere.

တွင်

twain — Locative particle meaning 'in', 'at', or 'within'.

မြောက်ဘက်

myout-bate — North direction; the northern side or area.

သာ

tha — Emphatic/limiting particle meaning 'only' or 'just'.

ပြီး

pyi — After completing; already done; and then afterward.

တိတ်ဆိတ်

tate-hsate — Quiet, silent, still; peaceful and without noise.

ဘောင်

baung — Frame, border, or enclosure around something.

ထဲ

htare — Inside, within; locative particle for interior location.

မျှော်

hmyo — To gaze into the distance; to look far ahead.

ကြည့်

kyi — To look at, watch, or observe something carefully.

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; ability marker meaning 'can/able to'.

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One thing; a single item or unit.

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; conjunction or comitative particle.

အလှမ်း

a-hlame — Distance away; a stretch or span of space.

ဝေး

way — Far, distant; a long way away from here.

နေ

nay — To live, stay, or be in a state.

အိုး

o — Pot, jar, or earthen vessel for cooking/storing.

ထို့အပြင်

hto-a-pyin — Furthermore, besides, in addition to that.

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen, or occur; existential verb.

သေး

thay — Still, yet; also 'small/tiny' as adjective.

၏

e — Formal genitive/possessive particle meaning 'of' or 'belonging to'.

မမျှော်လင့်

ma-hmyo-lin — Unexpected, unanticipated; not looked forward to at all.

အသံထွက်

a-thun-thoat — Pronunciation; the way a word is spoken aloud.

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to; causal postposition marker.

ပို

po — More; to a greater degree; comparative marker.

၍

yway — Therefore, so; connective particle linking clauses causally.

ကျေကျေ

kyay-kyay — Thoroughly, completely; doing something fully and properly.

နပ်နပ်

nat-nat — Properly, fittingly, appropriately; in a suitable manner.

မ

ma — Negation prefix; makes verbs or adjectives negative.

နိုင်

nine — Can, able to; potential/ability marker after verb.

လန်ဒန်

lan-dan — London, the capital city of England/UK.

စားပွဲ

sa-bwe — Table, especially a dining or eating table.

ထိုင်

htine — To sit down; to be seated in a place.

အင်္ဂလိပ်

in-ga-lait — English; relating to England or the English language.

လူ

lu — Person, human being, people in general.

တန်း

tan — Row, line, class; also directly/straightaway as adverb.

နှစ်

hnit — Year; also the number two in Burmese.

ကြား

kya — Between, among; to hear; interval between two things.

စီ

si — Each, respectively; distributive particle after numbers.

ထား

hta — To place, put, set aside; keep in state.

ရေဘူး

yay-bu — Water bottle or canteen for holding drinking water.

ဖြူ

phyu — White in color; pale or light-colored.

ဝိုင်ဘူး

wine-bu — Wine bottle; a bottle containing wine.

နီ

ni — Red in color; ruddy or crimson shade.

ကြီးလေး

kyi-lay — Solemn, dignified, serious, or weighty in manner.

နောက်ကွယ်

nout-kway — Behind, at the back; in the background area.

ချိတ်ဆွဲ

chate-hswe — To hang up, hook, or suspend something on something.

နှုတ်ဆက်

hnout-hsate — To greet, say hello or goodbye to someone.

မိဖုရားကြီး

mi-pha-ya-kyi — Queen; the principal royal consort or female monarch.

ကဗျာဆရာ

ka-bya-hsaya — Poet; a person who writes poetry or verse.

ဦးစီးချုပ်

u-si-kyout — Director-general; head administrator of an organization.

တို့

to — Plural pronoun suffix; marks a group of people.

ပုံရိပ်

pone-yit — Image, reflection, portrait, or visual representation.

နံရံ

nan-yan — Wall; the vertical surface of a room or building.

တည်း

ti — Only, alone; also a lodging/staying particle.

အလှဆင်

a-hla-hsin — To decorate, adorn, or beautify something aesthetically.

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix turning verbs into abstract nouns.

ဘုရားကျောင်း

pha-ya-kyaung — Church or religious building for worship and prayer.

ကြေညာချက်

kyay-nya-chate — Announcement, declaration, or official public statement.

ကျွန်မ

kyun-ma — I/me; humble first-person pronoun used by women.

သ

tha — Verbal suffix indicating ongoing action or experience.

ကဲ့သို့

kare-tho — Like, similar to; in the same way as.

သင်

thain — You; second-person pronoun; also means 'to learn'.

လည်း

leare — Also, too, as well; additive conjunction particle.

ခံစား

khun-sa — To feel, experience, or sense an emotion/sensation.

မိ

mi — Completive particle indicating action done unintentionally or accidentally.

ဘူး

bu — Negation particle for completed past actions; 'never/not yet'.

လား

la — Question particle for yes/no questions at sentence end.

မေး

may — To ask a question; to inquire about something.

ချင်

chyin — Want to, desire to; expresses wish or desire.

အခြား

a-chha — Other, another, different; something else besides this.

အမျိုးမျိုး

a-myo-myo — Various kinds, all sorts; different types and varieties.

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, object, matter; something in general terms.

ချက်ချင်း

chate-chyin — Immediately, right away, at once without delay.

အပြင်ဘက်

a-pyin-bate — Outside, exterior; the outer side of something.

မကြာခဏ

ma-kya-khana — Often, frequently, many times; happening again and again.

ယုံ

yone — To believe, trust, have faith in someone/something.

ဘဲ

beare — Without doing; negative connective particle between clauses.

ဒါ

da — This, that; colloquial demonstrative pronoun for objects.

ဟာ

ha — Colloquial topic marker; also 'thing' informally.

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person; a single individual (human counter).

ပင်ပန်း

pain-pan — Tired, weary, exhausted from effort or exertion.

နွမ်းနယ်

nwan-nye — Fatigued, weak, worn out; lacking energy or strength.

ခြင်း

chyin — Nominalizing suffix turning verbs into verbal nouns.

ပဲ

beare — Emphatic limiting particle meaning 'only' or 'just' colloquially.

ထင်

htin — To think, suppose, or assume; to appear to seem.

အသား

a-tha — Meat, flesh; the edible muscle tissue of animals.

ဟင်းရည်

hin-yay — Soup, broth, or curry sauce in Burmese cuisine.

အတွက်

a-twate — For, for the sake of; on behalf of something.

သုံး

thone — To use, employ; also the number three.

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; colloquial locative or order-giving particle.

သေချာ

thay-cha — Certain, sure, definite; to be sure about something.

ချ

cha — To place down, lower, or put something downward.

လျက်

lyat — While doing; simultaneous action connective particle.

မြစ်

myit — River; a large natural flowing body of water.

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very, extremely, excessively; beyond normal degree or measure.

တကြွ

ta-kyw — Enthusiastically, actively, energetically; with full lively spirit.

သူ

thu — He, she, they; third-person pronoun for a person.

စာ

sa — Letter, writing, book; written text or document.

မှ

hma — From, since; ablative postposition indicating source or origin.

အရှက်ကွဲ

a-shate-kwe — To be embarrassed, ashamed, humiliated before others.

စရာ

sa-ya — Worth doing; reason or cause to do something.

မည်သည့်

myi-dthit — Whatever, whichever; any at all (interrogative/relative).

မဆို

ma-hso — Any, whatever; '-ever' suffix in relative expressions.

အဆင်

a-hsin — Suitability, smoothness; readiness or going well.

ပြေ

pyay — To go smoothly, flow; to be resolved or comfortable.

ဆက်

hsate — To continue, proceed, connect; carry on doing something.

သို့သော်

tho-thaw — However, but, nevertheless; adversative conjunction between clauses.

သင့်

thain — Should, ought to; suitable or appropriate for something.

ခက်ခဲ

khate-khare — Difficult, hard, challenging; not easy to do.

စွာ

swa — Adverbializing suffix meaning '-ly'; in a certain manner.