A Room with a View — Page 3

Vocabulary

သူသည်

thu. hti. — He/she is; subject marker for third person singular.

သူတို့

thu. tote — They; third person plural pronoun.

လူမှုဝိုင်းထဲ

lu. hmu waing: hteare — Inside a social circle or gathering.

သူတို့နှင့်

thu. tote hnin. — With them; together with those people.

တူပေသည်။

tu pay. hti. — Seems to be; appears similar or alike.

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto. kyaung. — Therefore; for that reason.

သူမသည်

thu. ma. hti. — She is; subject marker for third person female.

သူပြောသောအခါ

thu pyaw thaw a kha — When he spoke; at the time he said.

"မြင်ကွင်းလား၊

myint kwint la: — A view? Is that a view? (questioning exclamation).

အို

o: — Oh; exclamation of surprise or realization.

မြင်ကွင်း!

myint kwint! — A view! A scenic vista or panorama.

မြင်ကွင်းဆိုသည်မှာ

myint kwint hso hti. hma — As for what a view means; regarding a view.

"ဤသူသည်

e thu. hti. — This person is; referring to this individual.

ကျွန်တော်၏

kya. naw e. — My; belonging to me (male speaker possessive).

သားဖြစ်သည်

tha: pfyit hti. — Is my son; this is one's son.

ဟု

hku — Quotation particle; said that, as follows.

အိုမင်းသူက

o: min: thu. ka — The old man; that elderly gentleman.

ပြောသည်၊

pyaw hti. — Says; said; he or she spoke.

"သူ့နာမည်က

thu. na. myi. ka — His name is; as for his name.

သူ့တွင်လည်း

thu. twin la: — He also has; in his case as well.

မြင်ကွင်းပါသည်။

myint kwint pa. hti. — Has a view too; there is also a view.

"အိုဟုတ်လား"

o: hote la: — Oh really? Is that so? Expression of surprise.

ပြောတော့မည့်

pyaw taw myi. — About to speak; on the verge of saying.

တားဆီးလျက်။

ta: hsi: lyit. — While stopping or restraining; holding back.

"ကျွန်တော်

kya. naw — I; first person singular pronoun for male speaker.

ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ"

hso lo hti. hma — What I mean is; what I intend to say.

သူဆက်ပြောသည်၊

thu hset pyaw hti. — He continued speaking; he went on to say.

"သင်တို့သည်

thin. tote hti. — You (plural) are; referring to you all.

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kya. naw tote — We; first person plural pronoun for male speaker.

အခန်းများကို

a khan: mya: go — The rooms; referring to multiple rooms (object marker).

ယူနိုင်ပြီး

yu nine pyi: — Can take; able to take and then.

ကျွန်တော်တို့က

kya. naw tote ka — We (subject); as for us (male speaker).

သင်တို့

thin. tote — You all; second person plural pronoun.

ယူမည်ဖြစ်သည်။

yu myi. pfyit hti. — Will take; is going to take or receive.

လဲလှယ်မည်။

le hlya myi. — Will exchange; will swap or trade.

အဆင့်မြင့်သော

a hsin. myint. thaw — High-class; of elevated social standing or status.

ခရီးသွားများသည်

kha yi thwa: mya: hti. — The travelers; those who are journeying or touring.

ဤအရာကြောင့်

e a ya kyaung. — Because of this; on account of this matter.

အံ့သြမိကြပြီး

an tho mi kya pyi: — Were surprised and; felt astonished together.

အသစ်ရောက်လာသူများကို

a thit yout la thu. mya: go — The newcomers; those who have just arrived.

သနားကြသည်။

tha na: kya hti. — Pitied them; felt sympathy or compassion together.

ဖြေကြားသည့်အနေနှင့်

pfye kya: hti. a ne hnin. — In the manner of replying; as a response.

ပါးစပ်ကို

pa: zit go — The mouth; referring to one's mouth (object marker).

တတ်နိုင်သမျှ

tut nine tha mya — As much as possible; to the extent able.

"အလွန်ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည်၊

a lwun kye: zu: tin pa. hti. — Thank you very much; extremely grateful.

သို့သော်

hto. thaw — However; but; nevertheless; yet.

ထိုအရာမှာ

hto a ya hma — That thing; as for that matter or item.

လုံးဝဖြစ်နိုင်မည်မဟုတ်

lone wa pfyit nine myi. ma hote — Absolutely cannot happen; completely impossible.

ပြောသည်။

pyaw hti. — Says; said; stated or spoke.

"ဘာကြောင့်လဲ?"

ba kyaung. le? — Why? For what reason? What is the cause?

လက်သီးနှစ်ဖက်ဖြင့်

let thi: hnit pfet pfyin. — With both fists; using two clenched hands.

စားပွဲကိုထောက်လျက်

za: bwe go htout lyit — While leaning on the table; supporting on table.

မေးသည်။

me: hti. — Asks; asked; posed a question.

"အကြောင်းမှာ

a kyaung: hma — The reason is; as for the cause.

ထိုအရာသည်

hto a ya hti. — That thing is; as for that particular matter.

ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည်။

kye: zu: tin pa. hti. — Thank you; I am grateful.

"ကြည့်ပါ၊

kyi. pa. — Look; please see; pay attention here.

ကျွန်မတို့

kya. ma. tote — We (female speaker); first person plural feminine.

မယူချင်—

ma yu chin— — Do not want to take; unwilling to accept.

စပြောသည်။

sa pyaw hti. — Began to speak; started saying something.

သူမ၏

thu. ma. e. — Her; belonging to her (possessive).

သူမကို

thu. ma. go — Her; directed at her (object marker).

တဖန်တားဆီးလိုက်သည်။

ta pfan ta: hsi: lite hti. — Stopped her again; restrained her once more.

"သို့သော်

hto. thaw — But; however; on the other hand.

ဘာကြောင့်လဲ?"

ba kyaung. le? — But why? What is the reason then?

သူဆက်မြည်တမ်းသည်။

thu hset myit tam: hti. — He continued to moan or whine insistently.

"အမျိုးသမီးများသည်

a myo: tha mi: mya: hti. — Women are; as for ladies or females.

မြင်ကွင်းကြည့်ရှုခြင်းကို

myint kwint kyi. shu chin: go — The act of enjoying a scenic view.

နှစ်သက်ကြသည်၊

hnit thet kya hti. — Like; are fond of; enjoy together.

အမျိုးသားများကား

a myo: tha: mya: ka: — As for men; regarding males on the other hand.

မနှစ်သက်ကြ။

ma hnit thet kya. — Do not like; are not fond of it.

ထို့နောက်

hto. nout — After that; then; subsequently.

နာခံမသော

na khan ma thaw — Disobedient; not compliant; unruly.

ကလေးငယ်တစ်ယောက်ကဲ့သို့

ka le ngwe tit yout ke. hto. — Like a small child; in the manner of a child.

လက်သီးဖြင့်

let thi: pfyin. — With a fist; using a clenched hand.

ထုကာ

htu ka — Striking or hitting; while banging down.

သားဆီ

tha: hsi — Toward his son; in the direction of the son.

လှည့်ကြည့်၍

hlyin kyi. yui. — Turning to look; glancing toward and then.

သူတို့ကို

thu. tote go — To them; directed at those people (object marker).

ဆွေးနွေးပေးပါ!"

hswe: nwe: pay. pa! — Please discuss with them; persuade them!

"သူတို့သည်

thu. tote hti. — They are; as for those people (subject marker).

ထိုအခန်းများ

hto a khan: mya: — Those rooms; the rooms in question.

ရသင့်သည်မှာ

ya thint hti. hma — Should receive; as for what they ought to have.

ရှင်းလင်းသည်

shin: lin: hti. — Is clear; obvious; plainly evident.

သားက

tha: ka — The son said; as for the son (subject marker).

"နောက်ထပ်

nout htut — Furthermore; additionally; moreover.

ပြောစရာ

pyaw sa ya — Something to say; a reason to speak.

မရှိ။"

ma shi. — There is none; does not exist; nothing more.

သူပြောနေစဉ်

thu pyaw ne zin — While he was speaking; during the time he spoke.

အမျိုးသမီးများဆီ

a myo: tha mi: mya: hsi — Toward the women; in the direction of the ladies.

ကြည့်ခြင်းမပြုသော်လည်း

kyi. chin: ma pyu thaw la: — Although not looking; despite not glancing at them.

သူ၏

thu. e. — His; belonging to him (possessive marker).

အသံမှာ

a than hma — His voice; as for the sound of his voice.

ရှုပ်ထွေးပြီး

shote htwe: pyi: — Confused and; troubled and complicated.

ဝမ်းနည်းပူဆွေးမှုကို

wun: nyi: pu: htswe: hmu go — The sadness and grief; sorrow and distress (object).

ဖော်ဆောင်နေသည်။

pfaw hsaung ne hti. — Was conveying; expressing or carrying an emotion.