A Room with a View — Page 4

Vocabulary

လည်း

lè — Also; too; as well; particle of inclusion

ရှုပ်ထွေးမှု

shote htway hmu — Complexity; confusion; state of being complicated

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with; conjunction

ကြုံ

kyoun — To encounter; to face; to experience something

နေ

nay — To live; to stay; to be; continuous aspect marker

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; to be able to; can

သည်၊

thì — Sentence marker; present tense particle; is

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; but; nevertheless; conjunction of contrast

သူမ

thu ma — She; her; third-person feminine pronoun

သည်

thì — Sentence-final particle; is; present tense marker

၎င်း

de in — It; that; formal third-person or demonstrative pronoun

တို့

doe — Plural marker; we; they; group particle

ရှုပ်ရှက်ဖွယ်, မြင်ကွင်း

shote shayt phway, myinn gwin — Embarrassing scene; awkward and shameful situation witnessed

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a; one unit of something

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that; as stated

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people; individual

သိ

thi — To know; to understand; to be aware of

များ

myar — Many; plural marker; more; lots of

သည့်

thì — Relative clause marker; that; which; who

အခြေအနေ

a chay a nay — Situation; condition; circumstance; state of affairs

တွေ့

tway — To meet; to find; to encounter someone or something

ကြောင်း

kyaung — Complementizer; that; because; reason particle

မြင်

myinn — To see; to observe; to perceive visually

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker; went; did previously

ထို့

htoe — That; therefore; referring to previously mentioned thing

အပြင်

a pyin — Outside; in addition to; beyond; furthermore

ယဉ်ကျေးမှု

yin kyay hmu — Culture; civilization; cultural practices and traditions

နည်းပါး

nè par — Few; scarce; rare; small in number or amount

သော

thaw — Relative particle; who; which; that; adjectival marker

ခရီးသည်

kha yi thì — Traveler; passenger; tourist; one who travels

ပြော

pyaw — To speak; to say; to tell; to talk

ဆို

hsoe — To say; to mean; quotative verb; called

တိုင်း

tine — Every; each; all; whenever; wherever; every time

ထို

htoe — That; those; demonstrative pronoun for distant referents

ပြိုင်ဆိုင်မှု

pyoinn hsine hmu — Competition; rivalry; act of competing with others

ခန်း

khan — Room; hall; chamber; section of a building

မြင်ကွင်း

myinn gwin — Scene; view; visual field; landscape; sight

အကြောင်း

a kyaung — About; reason; cause; concerning; topic

မျှ

hmya — Only; merely; just; equally; as much as

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not; negative marker

ဟုတ်

hote — Yes; correct; true; to be right or accurate

ဘဲ၊

bè — Without doing; while not; negative connective particle

ယခင်

ya khin — Previously; formerly; before; in the past

က

ga — Subject or agent marker; from; by; particle

ဖူး

phu — Ever; experiential marker; to have done before

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ

tit soun tit ya — Something; anything; some unspecified thing or matter

အလွန်

a lwan — Very; extremely; excessively; greatly; very much

ကွဲပြားခြားနား

kwè pyar kyar nar — Different; distinct; diverse; to differ from each other

အရာ

a ya — Thing; object; matter; item; something

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely; emphasis or restriction particle

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be; to happen; to become; to occur

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward speaker; arrival

ဟူ

hu — Formal quotative particle; called; known as; namely

ထူးဆန်း

htu hsan — Strange; unusual; extraordinary; odd; peculiar

ခံစားချက်

khan sar jayt — Feeling; emotion; sensation; emotional experience

ကို

go — Object marker; to; toward; accusative particle

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; there is; to be present

သည်။

thì — Sentence-final marker ending a declarative statement

ယခု

ya khu — Now; at this moment; currently; at present

အို

o — Oh; exclamation of surprise or address; O

မင်း

min — You; informal second-person pronoun; lord; king

လူကြီး

lu gyi — Adult; important person; elder; respected individual

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of; purpose marker

လို

lo — To need; to want; to be like; as if

သဘော

tha baw — Meaning; intention; idea; disposition; nature

ဖြင့်

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

မေး

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

မြန်း

myan — To inquire; to probe; to question carefully

လိုက်

lite — Directional particle; to follow; to go along with

အဘယ်

a bhè — What; which; why; formal interrogative pronoun

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; causal particle; therefore

ပြောင်း

pyaung — To change; to shift; to transform; to alter

လဲ

lè — Question particle; also; to fall; change aspect

သင့်

thinn — You; appropriate; should; suitable; proper

တွင်

twin — In; at; within; locative particle

မည်

myi — Future tense marker; will; shall; going to

ကန့်ကွက်ချက်

kan kwayt jayt — Objection; protest; complaint; formal opposition

နိုင်

nine — Can; to be able to; capable of; possible

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also; please; inclusion marker

နည်း။

nè — Method; way; how; technique; manner

သူ

thu — He; him; she; third-person pronoun

တစ်နာရီ

tit na yi — One hour; a period of sixty minutes

ဝက်

wayt — Half; pig; portion; fifty percent

အတွင်း

a twin — Inside; within; during; interior; internal

ဖယ်ရှား

phay shar — To remove; to eliminate; to get rid of

သွား

thwar — To go; directional verb away from speaker

စကား

sa gar — Words; speech; language; conversation; talk

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer; act of; -ing; verbal noun marker

၏

e — Possessive particle; of; belonging to; genitive marker

သိမ်မွေ့မှု

thein mway hmu — Refinement; subtlety; gentleness; delicate sophistication

ကျွမ်းကျင်

kywan kyin — Skilled; expert; proficient; experienced; competent

သော်

thaw — Although; even though; concessive conjunction; but

ကြမ်းတမ်း

kyam dan — Rough; harsh; rugged; coarse; brutal in manner

ရက်စက်

yayt sayt — Cruel; ruthless; brutal; merciless; heartless

မှု

hmu — Abstract noun suffix; matter; case; affair

သူ့

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

ရှေ့

shay — Front; before; ahead; in front of; forward

အစွမ်း

a swan — Power; ability; skill; capability; strength

ကုန်

kone — To finish; to run out; all gone; completed

ငြိမ်

nyein — Quiet; still; calm; silent; peaceful

ကျ

kya — To fall; to drop; to decrease; to descend

တစ်ဦး

tit u — One person; a single individual; one person only

ဆက်ဆံ

hsayt hsan — To deal with; to relate to; to treat; interaction

ရာ

ya — Hundred; place; nominalizer suffix; where one does

မြှင့်တင်

hmyin tin — To promote; to elevate; to raise up; to advance

ဘဲ

bè — Without; not doing; negative connective particle

ချုပ်ငြိမ်း

choat nyein — To restrain; to suppress; to settle; to calm down

စေ

say — Causative marker; to cause; to make someone do

ပေ။

pay — Sentence-final assertive particle; indeed; certainly

မျက်နှာ

myayt hna — Face; appearance; expression; front of the head

ကျေ

kyay — To be paid off; to be even; to be satisfied

နီ

ni — Red; to be red; reddish color

ရဲ

yè — Brave; to dare; intensifier particle; to be bold

သင်, အားလုံး, ဤ, ကဲ့သို့, ကြ, လော

thinn, ar lone, i, kè thoe, kya, law — You, everyone, this, like/such as, plural verb marker, question

ပင်

pin — Indeed; even; precisely; emphasis particle; tree

ဝိုင်း

wine — To surround; round; circle; to gather around

ကြည့်

kyi — To look; to watch; to observe; to see

စားပွဲ

sar bwè — Table; dining table; desk; eating surface

တစ်ဖက်

tit phayt — One side; the other side; one direction

သို့

thoe — To; toward; in the direction of; destination marker

ပို

po — More; to send; further; comparative degree marker

ဝေး

way — Far; distant; remote; away from; far off

နေရာ

nay ya — Place; location; spot; position; area

ထိုင်

htine — To sit; to be seated; to sit down

ပြီး

pyi — After; finished; done; completion marker; already

ကုလားထိုင်

ka lar htine — Chair; seat; sitting furniture with a back

ကျော

kyaw — Back; behind; to pass; spine; to exceed

တိုင်

tine — Post; pillar; to complain; to reach as far as

ပေါ်

paw — On; above; on top of; to appear; surface

ချိတ်ဆွဲ

chayt hswe — To hang; to hook; to attach; to link together

ထား

htar — To place; to put; to keep; to leave behind

အသက်

a thayt — Age; life; breath; years old; lifespan

ကြီး

gyi — Big; large; great; old; important; senior

အမျိုးသမီး

a myoe tha mi — Woman; female; lady; feminine gender

လေး

lay — Four; dear; endearing particle; light in weight

နှစ်ဦး

hnit u — Two people; both persons; a pair of individuals

ပြန်

pyan — To return; to go back; again; back

ကာ

ka — Connective particle; while doing; as; continuative

ကျွန်မ, ပါ၊, ကျွန်မ, ယဉ်ကျေး, သိမ်မွေ့, သည်

kyama, pa, kyama, yin kyay, thein mway, thì — I am refined and cultured; polite self-introduction statement

ထင်ရှား

htin shar — Famous; prominent; obvious; clear; well-known

စွာ

swar — Adverbial suffix; in a manner of; -ly; way

ဖော်ပြ

phaw pya — To describe; to show; to express; to display

ချစ်သူ၊ ထမင်း, စား, ပါ

chit thu, hta min, sar, pa — Darling, please eat your meal; affectionate dining request

တစ်ကြိမ်

tit kyein — Once; one time; on one occasion

ဝေဖန်

way phan — To criticize; to comment; to review; to critique

အသားဟင်း

a thar hin — Meat dish; meat curry; dish made with meat

တဖန်

ta phan — Again; once more; on the other hand; furthermore

ကိုင်တွယ်

kine tway — To handle; to manage; to deal with; to touch

မျက်နှာချင်းဆိုင်

myayt hna chin hsine — Face to face; directly opposite; confronting each other

ထပ်

htat — Again; to add; floor/story of building; repeat

မြည်တမ်း

myi dam — To lament; to groan; to moan; to wail

ပါ။

pa — Polite sentence-final particle ending a statement

ဧည့်ခန်းဆောင်

è khan hsaung — Dining hall; reception hall; restaurant room

အောင်မြင်

aung myin — To succeed; to achieve; to be victorious; successful

မနက်ဖြန်

ma nayt phyan — Tomorrow; the next day; following morning

ပြောင်းရွှေ့

pyaung shway — To move; to relocate; to transfer to another place

မည်။

myi — Future tense sentence-final marker; will; shall

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

kyaout mayt phway — Terrible; dreadful; frightful; causing fear and horror

ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်

hsone phyat jayt — Decision; resolution; ruling; determined conclusion

ကြေညာ

kyay nya — To announce; to declare; to proclaim publicly

ကြာ

kya — Long; to take time; duration; a long time

မီ

mi — Before; in time; to reach; to be in time for

ပြောင်းပြန်

pyaung pyan — Opposite; reversed; contrary; upside down; inverted

ဖျက်သိမ်း

phyayt thein — To cancel; to abolish; to dismantle; to dissolve

ခန်းမ

khan ma — Hall; large room; auditorium; assembly room

ထိပ်ဖျား

htit pyar — Top; tip; pinnacle; apex; highest point

ကာတင်

ka tin — Curtain; drape; window or door covering fabric

ကွဲ

kwè — To split; to crack; to separate; to differ

လွဲ

lwè — To miss; to err; wrong; to be mistaken

ဆွဲဆောင်မှု

hswe hsaung hmu — Attraction; appeal; charm; allure; drawing power

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; self; one's own; reflexive pronoun

ယူ

yu — To take; to carry; to bring; to get

အမြန်

a myan — Quickly; fast; rapid; in a hurry; speedy

ဝင်

win — To enter; to go in; to come in; to join

နောက်

naout — Behind; after; next; back; following; later

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw shwin — Happy; joyful; cheerful; to feel joy and delight

တောင်းပန်

taung pan — To apologize; to ask forgiveness; to beg pardon