A Room with a View — Page 5

Vocabulary

သိမ်မွေ့မှုကို

thein mwè hmù go — Refinement or delicacy (object marker attached)

မရသေးသောကြောင့်

ma ya dè thaw gyaung — Because (she/he) has not yet received or obtained

ချက်ချင်းထ၍

chет chin htà yway — Rose/stood up immediately without delay

အိုး

oh — Oh! Exclamation expressing surprise or realization

ဟာ

ha — Informal particle expressing emphasis or surprise

မစ္စတာ

mis ta — Mister; honorific title for an adult man

ဘယ်လောက်

bèh laug — How much; how many; to what extent

လှပသနည်း

hlà ba thà nè — How beautiful is it; exclamation of beauty

ရှာလော့

sha law — Go find; search for something imperative command

တီ

ti — Tea; the popular hot beverage drink

ကျွန်မတို့

kyun ma doh — We (feminine first-person plural inclusive pronoun)

ခုပဲ

khu pè — Right now; just at this very moment

နားကြရမယ်

nà gya ya mèh — (We) must listen or rest together now

အခန်းတွေ

a khan dwè — Rooms; multiple rooms in a building

ဘယ်လောက်ပဲ

bèh laug pè — No matter how much; to whatever extent

ဆိုးဆိုး

so so — Badly; terribly; very unpleasantly or poorly

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'thus'

ကြွေးကြော်လိုက်သည်

gwè gyaw laig thì — Exclaimed or cried out loudly with feeling

မစ်

mis — Miss; honorific title for an unmarried woman

ပို၍

po ywè — More; additionally; to a greater degree

တည်ငြိမ်စွာ

tè nyein swà — Calmly; steadily; in a composed manner

ပြောလိုက်သည်

pyaw laig thì — Said; spoke; uttered something at that moment

မင်္ဂလာပါ

min ga la ba — Hello; greetings; auspicious salutation in Burmese

ကျွန်မတို့ကို

kyun ma doh go — Us (feminine); first-person plural object pronoun

မေ့သွားပြီ

mèh thwà byi — Has already forgotten; memory has slipped away

ထင်တယ်

htin dèh — Think; believe; suppose something is the case

ဆောင်းရာသီ

saung ya thi — Winter season; the cold time of year

အပူချိန်

a pu chein — Temperature; degree of heat in the atmosphere

အလွန်နိမ့်တဲ့

a lùn nein dèh — Very low; extremely low temperature or level

ပတ်သကြူးနေ့မှာ

pat tha gyù nèh hmà — On Easter Sunday; the Christian holiday celebration

ဘုရားရှိခိုးကျောင်း

pha yà shit ko gyaung — Church; a Christian place of worship building

ဘုန်းကြီးကို

phoun ji go — The monk or clergyman (object marker attached)

ကူညီစဉ်

ku nyi zin — While helping; during the time of assisting

ရှိပါတယ်

shi ba dèh — There is; exists; polite affirmative existence statement

ခွင့်ရက်ယူထားသူတစ်ဦးကဲ့သို့

khwin yèt yu htà thu ti ù kèh tho — Like someone who is currently on holiday leave

မူရိုင်းနေသော

mu yaing nè thaw — Acting wild; behaving in an unruly manner

ထိုဘုန်းကြီးသည်

hto phoun ji thì — That monk or clergyman (subject marker attached)

အမျိုးသမီးများကို

a myo tha mi myà go — The women; ladies (plural object marker attached)

သူတို့က

thu doh ka — They; third-person plural subject pronoun marker

သူ့ကို

thu go — Him; third-person singular masculine object pronoun

မှတ်မိသမျှ

hmät mi tha mjha — Everything that is remembered; all recollections recalled

ရှင်းရှင်းလင်းလင်း

shin shin lin lin — Clearly; plainly; in an understandable clear manner

မမှတ်မိပေ

ma hmät mi bè — Does not remember; cannot recall at all

သို့သော်

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

သူသည်

thu thì — He; third-person masculine singular subject pronoun

ကြည်နူးဖွယ်

kyi nu bwèh — Pleasing; delightful; something that brings emotional satisfaction

ချဉ်းကပ်လာ၍

chin kät la ywè — Approached; came closer; drew near to someone

လှမ်းဖိတ်ကမ်းသော

hlàn phèit kan thaw — Reached out and offered an invitation gesture

ထိုင်ခုံကို

htaing khoun go — The chair or seat (object marker attached)

လက်ခံထိုင်လိုက်သည်

lèt khan htaing laig thì — Accepted and sat down on the offered seat

သင့်ကို

thin go — You (object); second-person singular object pronoun

တွေ့ရ

twèh ya — To meet; to encounter; to find someone

အလွန်ပဲ

a lùn pè — Very; extremely; to an exceptional degree

ဝမ်းသာတယ်

wùn tha dèh — Happy; glad; pleased about something or someone

ထိုမိန်းကလေးက

hto mein ka lè ka — That young girl or young woman (subject marker)

သူမသည်

thu ma thì — She; third-person feminine singular subject pronoun

စိတ်ဝိညာဉ်

sèit wi nyàn — Spirit; soul; inner spiritual essence of person

မွတ်သိပ်နေသော

mùt thèit nè thaw — Being famished; in a state of spiritual hunger

အခြေအနေတွင်

a chè a nè twin — In the condition or situation of; circumstance marker

ရှိ၍

shi ywè — Being in; having; existing in a state

ညီမတော်က

nyi ma taw ka — The younger sister (subject marker); younger female sibling

ခွင့်ပြုမည်ဆိုလျှင်

khwin pyu mì so lyhin — If permission is given; if one would allow

စားပွဲထိုးကိုပင်

sà bwè hto go pin — Even the waiter; emphasizing even a lowly server

ဝမ်းသာမည်

wùn tha mì — Will be happy; would feel pleased or glad

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thì — Is; to be; indicates a state of being

ကမ္ဘာ

kàm ba — World; earth; the entire globe or universe

သေးငယ်သနည်း

thè ngèh tha nè — How small is it; isn't the world small

ဆိုတာ

so ta — The thing called; what is meant by; that which

စဉ်းစားကြည့်ပါ

sin sà kyi ba — Please think about it; consider carefully and reflect

ကလည်း

ka lè — Also; too; particle adding another item or subject

အထူး

a htù — Special; extraordinary; particularly notable or unique

ဆန်းကြယ်စေတယ်

sàn kyèh sè dèh — Makes it wonderful; causes something to seem remarkable

နေထိုင်သည်

nè htaing thì — Lives; resides; dwells in a particular place

အဆက်ဖြည့်ပြီး

a sèt phyi byi — After adding a continuation; supplementing the conversation further

ပြီးတော့

byi daw — Then; after that; and furthermore in sequence

ဆွေးနွေးစဉ်

swè nwè zin — While discussing; during a conversation or deliberation

သင်က

thin ka — You (subject); second-person singular subject marker

ထိုနေရာ

hto nè yà — That place; that location; a specific mentioned place

သာသနာပြုနေရာကို

tha tha na pyu nè yà go — To the mission place; missionary work location object marker

လက်ခံပြီးကြောင်း

lèt khan byi gaung — That (she/he) has accepted; indicating acceptance reported speech

ကျွန်မကို

kyun ma go — Me (feminine); first-person feminine singular object pronoun

ပြောဖြစ်ခဲ့

pyaw phyit khèh — Happened to say; managed to tell someone something

ဟုတ်ကဲ့

houg kèh — Yes; that is correct; polite affirmative response

ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့

byi khèh dèh — Last; past; that which has already concluded previously

အပတ်

a pat — Week; a period of seven consecutive days

အမေ့ထံမှ

a mèh htàn hmà — From mother; originating from one's maternal parent source

ကြားသိခဲ့ပါတယ်

gyà thi khèh ba dèh — Heard and came to know; learned through hearing politely

ကျွန်တော်

kyun daw — I; first-person masculine singular polite pronoun

သင်တို့ကို

thin doh go — You all; second-person plural object pronoun

သိကြောင်း

thi gaung — That (he/she) knows; reported knowledge complement marker

သူမ

thu ma — She; third-person feminine singular pronoun

မသိခဲ့ပါ

ma thi khèh ba — Did not know; was unaware polite past negative

ချက်ချင်း

chет chin — Immediately; right away; without any delay at all

ပြန်ရေး၍

pyan yè ywè — Wrote back; replied in writing and then continued

ပြောခဲ့ပါတယ်

pyaw khèh ba dèh — Said; told; spoke about something politely in past

မှန်ကန်ပါတယ်

hmàn kan ba dèh — That is correct; it is accurate and right politely

ဘုန်းကြီးက

phoun ji ka — The monk or priest (subject marker attached)

လာမည့်

la mì — Upcoming; coming; future event that will occur

ဇွန်လတွင်

jun la twin — In the month of June; during June specifically

ရက်တိုရီသို့

yèt to ri tho — To the rectory; toward the clergyman's official residence

ပြောင်းရွှေ့မည်

pyaung shwèh mì — Will move; will relocate to a different place