A Room with a View — Page 2

Vocabulary

မိမိသည်

mi mi thit — oneself; referring to one's own self

ကိုယ်ကျိုးစီးပွားကိုသာ

ko kyoe si bwa go tha — only one's own personal interests or benefit

အလေးထားမိသည်ဟု

a lay hta mi thit hku — felt that one had placed emphasis on something

ခံစားမိသည်။

khan za mi thit — felt or experienced something emotionally

ကျမကို

kja ma go — to me; first-person female pronoun with object marker

သိမ်းငုံ့

thein ngone — to hold back, suppress, or restrain oneself

မနေပါနဲ့

ma nay pa nae — please do not stay or hold back

ဟုတ်တာပေါ့

hote ta paw — of course; that is true indeed

သင်လည်း

thin leare — you also; you as well

ကြည့်ရမှာပေါ့

kji ya hma paw — you must look or see it of course

ကျမ

kja ma — I; first-person pronoun used by females

ဆိုလိုတာ

so lo ta — what is meant; what one intends to say

ဒါပါ

da pa — that is it; this is what it is

ရှေ့တန်းမှ

shay tan hma — from the front row or front section

ပထမဆုံး

pa hta ma zone — first of all; the very first

အလွတ်အခန်း

a hlut a khan — vacant room; an unoccupied or empty room

သင်

thin — you; second-person pronoun in Burmese

ယူရမှာပါ

yu ya hma ba — must take or must acquire something

ဟု

hku — quotation particle meaning 'saying that'

က

ga — subject marker particle in Burmese grammar

ပြောလိုက်သည်

pyaw lite thit — said; spoke or uttered something

သူမ၏

thu ma yay — her; possessive form of third-person female pronoun

ခရီးစရိတ်

kha yee za yite — travel expenses; cost of a journey

အချို့ကို

a choe go — some of; referring to a portion of something

မိခင်က

mi khin ga — mother; the maternal parent (subject)

ကြေညာပေးထားသည်

kje nya pay hta thit — has announced or declared something publicly

ကိုယ်ကျင့်ကောင်းသော

ko kjin kaung thaw — having good morals or virtuous character

ဒါနကျေးဇူးကို

da na kje zu go — the charitable generosity or act of giving

သူမသည်

thu ma thit — she; third-person female subject pronoun

လိမ္မာစွာ

lim ma zwa — cleverly; in a shrewd or tactful manner

မကြာမကြာ

ma kja ma kja — frequently; often; again and again

ရည်ညွှန်းလေ့ရှိသည်

yay hnun lay shi thit — tends to refer to or allude to something

မဟုတ်ဘူး

ma hote bu — it is not; negation expressing something is false

အတင်းပြောနေတာပါ

a tin pyaw nay ta ba — is speaking forcefully or insisting on something

သင့်မိခင်က

thin mi khin ga — your mother; referring to the listener's mother

ဘယ်တော့မှ

bae daw hma — never; not at any time whatsoever

မခွင့်လွှတ်မှာ

ma khwin hlut hma — will not forgive or will not pardon

သူမက

thu ma ga — she; third-person female subject with marker

အမျိုးသမီးများ၏

a myo tha mi mya yay — of the women; belonging to the females

အသံများသည်

a than mya thit — the voices; multiple sounds or vocal expressions

တက်ကြွလာပြီး

tet kjwa la byi — becoming energetic, lively, or animated

မနှစ်မြို့ဖွယ်သော

ma hnit myo phway thaw — unpleasant; not pleasing or agreeable

အမှန်တရားကို

a hmun ta ya go — the truth; referring to what is factually correct

ဝန်ခံပါမည်ဆိုလျှင်

wun khan ba myi so shin — if one will admit or confess the truth

အနည်းငယ်

a nea ngay — a little; a small amount or degree

စိတ်တိုလာကြသည်

seit to la kja thit — became irritated or annoyed; grew impatient

သူတို့

thu do — they; third-person plural pronoun

ပင်ပန်းနေကြပြီး

pin pan nay kja byi — being tired; feeling weary or exhausted

ကိုယ်ကျိုး

ko kyoe — personal interest; one's own benefit or gain

မစောင့်သည့်

ma zaung thit — not attending to; not caring or looking after

ဟန်ဆောင်လျက်

han zaung lyat — while pretending; feigning a certain behavior

ငြင်းခုံနေကြသည်

njin khon nay kja thit — are arguing or debating with each other

နားချင်းဆက်

na chin zet — side by side; sitting close together ear to ear

ထိုင်သူများ

htine thu mya — those who are seated; people sitting down

ထဲမှ

htay hma — from within; out of the inside of something

အချို့က

a choe ga — some of them; a certain portion (subject)

မျက်ကြည့်ချင်း

myet kji chin — exchanging glances; looking at each other

ဖလှယ်ကြပြီး

pfa hlway kja byi — exchanged with each other and then

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — one person; a single individual

နိုင်ငံခြားမှာ

naing ngan kja hma — abroad; in a foreign country

တွေ့ကြုံရ

tway khon ya — to encounter or experience something firsthand

လေ့ရှိသော

lay shi thaw — tends to; having a habit of doing something

ယဉ်ကျေးမှု

yin kje hmu — culture; civilization or cultural practices

နည်းသောသူများ

nea thaw thu mya — people who have less; those lacking something

တစ်ဦး

tit u — one person; a single individual (formal)

စားပွဲပေါ်သို့

za bwae paw tho — onto the table; toward or upon the table

ကိုင်းညွတ်ပြီး

kine njut byi — leaning forward or bending over then

သူတို့၏

thu do yay — their; possessive form of third-person plural

ငြင်းခုံမှု

njin khon hmu — argument; dispute or act of debating

ထဲသို့

htay tho — into; toward the inside of something

တကယ်ပင်

ta kjay pin — truly; really and genuinely indeed

ဝင်ရောက်

win yout — to enter; to come into or intervene

နှောင့်ယှက်လိုက်သည်

hnout shet lite thit — interrupted or disturbed someone's activity

သူက

thu ga — he; third-person male subject with marker

ကျွန်တော်မှာ

kja naw hma — I have; first-person male pronoun with locative

မြင်ကွင်းရှိတယ်

myin kwin shi deh — there is a view; a scene exists here

အံ့အားသင့်

an a thin — to be astonished or amazed by something

သွားသည်

thwa thit — went; to go (past tense marker)

ဧည့်နေရာ

e nay ya — guest accommodation; place for visitors to stay

တစ်ခုတွင်

tit khu twit — in one; within a particular place or thing

လူများသည်

lu mya thit — people; many persons (subject marker)

ပုံမှန်အားဖြင့်

pone hmun a pjin — normally; usually; in a typical manner

စကားမပြောမီ

za ga ma pyaw mi — before speaking; prior to saying anything

တစ်ရက်

tit yet — one day; a single day

နှစ်ရက်

hnit yet — two days; a period of two days

ကြည့်ကြပြီး

kji kja byi — looked at each other and then

ကိုက်ညီ

kite nyi — to match or be compatible with something

ထွက်သွားမှသာ

htout thwa hma tha — only after leaving or going away

သိရ

thi ya — to come to know; to find out

လေ့ရှိသည်

lay shi thit — tends to; has a habit of doing

နှောင့်ယှက်သော

hnout shet thaw — disturbing; one who interrupts or bothers others

သူသည်

thu thit — he; third-person male subject pronoun

နည်းကြောင်းကို

nea kjaung go — the method or way of doing something

သူ့ကို

thu go — him; third-person male object pronoun

မကြည့်မီ

ma kji mi — before looking; prior to observing something

ကတည်းက

ga teh ga — since; from a point in time previously

သိနေပြီ

thi nay byi — already knew; has been knowing something

ကိုယ်လုံး

ko lone — body; the physical physique or frame

ကြီးသော

kji thaw — large; big in size or stature

ဆံပင်လိပ်

za bin lite — coiled or pinned-up hair; a hair bun

မျက်နှာ

myet hna — face; the front part of the head

ဖြူဖြူနှင့်

phyu phyu hnin — with a pale or fair complexion

မျက်လုံး

myet lone — eyes; the organs of sight

ကြီးကြီး

kji kji — big big; very large or notably big

ရှိသော

shi thaw — having; that which exists or possesses

အသက်ကြီးသူ

a thet kji thu — an elderly person; someone of old age

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thit — is; to be; a copular verb in Burmese

မျက်လုံးများတွင်

myet lone mya twit — in the eyes; within one's gaze or expression

ကလေးသဘော

ka lay tha baw — childlike nature; an innocent or juvenile quality

ရှိနေသော်လည်း

shi nay thaw leare — although there is; despite something existing

၎င်းသည်

ti gin thit — it; that one (formal third-person reference)

အိုမင်းမှု

o min hmu — aging; the state of growing old

ကြောင့်သော

kjaung thaw — because of; due to a certain cause

ကလေးဆန်မှု

ka lay zan hmu — childishness; the quality of being childlike

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma hote pay — it is not; certainly not the case

တိကျစွာ

ti kja zwa — precisely; exactly or with great accuracy

ဆိုသော်

so thaw — if one says; when stating or defining

ဘာဖြစ်သည်ကို

ba phyit thit go — what it is; referring to a specific thing

ထပ်ဆင့်

htat sin — further; additionally or in layers

တွေးဆ

tway za — to think and reason; to ponder or reflect

နေခဲ့ခြင်း

nay khae chin — having been; the state of having lived or stayed

မရှိပေ

ma shi pay — there is none; does not exist at all

အကြောင်းမှာ

a kjaung hma — the reason is; regarding the cause

မျက်စိသည်

myet si thit — the eye; organ of sight (subject marker)

သူ၏

thu yay — his; possessive form of third-person male

အဝတ်အစား

a wut a za — clothing; garments or attire worn by a person

ဆီသို့

zi tho — toward; in the direction of something

အဝတ်အစားများက

a wut a za mya ga — the clothes; garments as the subject

သူမကို

thu ma go — her; third-person female object pronoun

မဆွဲဆောင်နိုင်ပေ

ma zwae zaung naing pay — could not attract or appeal to her