A Room with a View — Page 6

Vocabulary

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I/me (formal, male first-person pronoun)

ဒီလောက်ချစ်စဖွယ်ကောင်းတဲ့

di-lauq chit-sa-phwè-kaung-dè — So adorable; so lovable; so endearing

အိမ်နီးချင်းဒေသမှာ

ein-ni-jin dètha-hma — In the neighboring area; in the surrounding region

တာဝန်ကျရတာ

ta-wun-kya-ya-da — Being assigned duty; being stationed somewhere

ကံကောင်းလိုက်တာ

kan-kaung-lait-ta — How lucky; what good fortune

အို

o — Oh (exclamation expressing surprise or emotion)

ကျွန်မ

kyun-ma — I/me (formal, female first-person pronoun)

ဘယ်လောက်

bè-lauq — How much; how many; to what extent

ဝမ်းသာရတာလဲ

wun-tha-ya-da-lè — How delightful; how happy one feels

ကျွန်မတို့

kyun-ma-doh — We/us (female speaker, formal plural)

အိမ်ရဲ့

ein-yèh — Of the house; the house's (possessive marker)

နာမည်က

na-mè-ga — The name is; called (introducing a name)

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence-final particle for politeness

မစ္စတာ

mit-sa-ta — Mister; Mr. (honorific title for men)

ညွတ်ကြိုက်ခဲ့သည်

nyut-kyaiq-khèh-thi — Nodded in approval; greeted with a nod

အများအားဖြင့်

a-mya-a-hpyin — Generally; mostly; for the most part

မေမေနဲ့

mè-mè-nèh — With mother; together with mom

ရှိတယ်

shi-dè — There is; exists; have (existence verb)

ညီလည်း

nyi-lèh — Younger sibling also; brother/sister too

ဒါပေမယ့်

da-pè-mèh — But; however; nevertheless (conjunction)

သူ့ကို

thu-go — To him/her; him/her (object marker)

ဘုရားကျောင်းကတော့

paya-kyaung-ga-daw — As for the church/pagoda; regarding the temple

နည်းနည်းဝေးတယ်

nè-nè-wè-dè — A little far; slightly distant from here

ဆိုလိုတာ

so-lo-da — What is meant; meaning (clarifying expression)

ချစ်သူလေး

chit-thu-lè — Dear one; sweetheart; beloved little one

ညစာ

nya-za — Dinner; evening meal

စားခွင့်ပေးပါ

sa-khwin-pè-ba — Please allow to eat; grant permission to dine

စားနေပါတယ်

sa-nè-ba-dè — Is eating; currently having a meal (polite)

ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်

kyè-zu-tin-ba-dè — Thank you; I am grateful (polite expression)

ပြီးတော့

pyì-daw — And then; moreover; furthermore (connector)

အရသာလည်း

a-ya-tha-lèh — The taste also; flavor as well

ရှိပါတယ်

shi-ba-dè — There is; it exists (polite affirmative)

သူသည်

thu-thi — He/she (subject marker, formal/literary)

စကားပြောရသည်ကို

za-ga-pyaw-ya-thi-go — The act of conversing; talking with someone

ပိုနှစ်သက်ခဲ့သည်

po-hnit-thet-khèh-thi — Preferred more; liked better (past tense)

အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဆိုသော်

a-bè-kyaung-so-thaw — Because; the reason being; for the reason that

တီးမှုကို

ti-hmu-go — The playing of music; musical performance (object)

မှတ်မိနေပြီး

hmat-mi-nè-byì — Remembering; still recalling; retaining in memory

တရားဟောချက်များကို

ta-ya-haw-jet-mya-go — The sermons; religious teachings (object marker)

မှတ်မိနေမည်

hmat-mi-nè-mèh — Will remember; will be able to recall

ဖြစ်သောကြောင့်

phyit-thaw-kyaung — Because it is; due to the fact that

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thi — Is; it is; to be (formal/literary copula)

မိန်းကလေးအား

mein-ga-lè-a — To the girl; for the young woman (object)

ကောင်းကောင်း

kaung-kaung — Well; properly; thoroughly (adverb of manner)

သိမသိ

thi-ma-thi — Whether knowing or not; if one knows

မေးမြန်းခဲ့ပြီး

mè-myin-khèh-byì — Having asked; inquired and then (past)

သူမ

thu-ma — She; her (third-person female pronoun)

ယခင်တစ်ခါမှ

ya-khin-dit-kha-hma — Never before; not once previously

ထိုနေရာသို့

hto-nè-ya-thoh — To that place; toward that location

မရောက်ဖူးကြောင်း

ma-yauq-phu-kyaung — That (she) had never been there before

အတော်လေး

a-taw-lè — Quite; fairly; rather (degree adverb)

ကြာကြာ

kya-kya — For a long time; lengthy duration

ဖြေကြားသည်ကို

phyè-kya-thi-go — The answering of; the response given (object)

ကြားသိရသည်

kya-thi-ya-thi — Came to hear; learned by hearing

လာရောက်သူသစ်တစ်ယောက်အား

la-yauq-thu-thit-tit-yauq-a — To a newcomer; toward a newly arrived person

အကြံပေးနိုင်ရသည်မှာ

a-kyan-pè-nain-ya-thi-hma — Being able to give advice; the fact of advising

ပျော်ရွှင်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော်ငြားလည်း

pyaw-shwin-phwè-kaung-thaw-ngya-lèh — Although pleasing; even though it was delightful

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma-zoun — First; the very first; foremost

အကြံပေးသူ

a-kyan-pè-thu — Advisor; one who gives advice or counsel

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်

phyit-khèh-thi — Was; became; had been (past tense copula)

ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်

pat-wun-jin — Surroundings; environment; surrounding area

နယ်ပယ်တွေကို

nè-pè-dwè-go — The areas; the fields; the districts (object)

လျစ်လျူမရှုပါနဲ့

lyit-lyu-ma-shu-ba-nèh — Do not ignore; please do not overlook

ဟု

hu — Thus; saying that (quotative particle, formal)

အကြံပြုချက်

a-kyan-pyu-jet — Suggestion; recommendation; piece of advice

နိဂုံးချုပ်ခဲ့သည်

ni-goun-chauq-khèh-thi — Concluded; wrapped up; ended with (past)

နေပျော်ရွှင်မည့်

nè-pyaw-shwin-mèh — Will be enjoyable to live; likely to be pleasant

ညနေတွင်

nya-nè-dwin — In the evening; during the afternoon/evening

မောင်းတက်သွားပြီး

maung-tet-thwa-byì — Drove up; went up by driving (past)

ပတ်ဆင့်၍

pat-sin-yway — Going around; by going via; circling through

သွားပါ

thwa-ba — Please go; go (polite imperative)

ဒါမှမဟုတ်

da-hma-ma-hout — Or else; otherwise; alternatively

ဆင်တူတဲ့

sin-tu-dèh — Similar; resembling; alike in nature

နေရာမျိုး

nè-ya-myoh — A type of place; that kind of location

မဟုတ်ဘူး

ma-hout-bu — Is not; no; that is not the case

စားပွဲ၏

sa-bwèh-yèh — Of the table; the table's (possessive)

ထိပ်ဘက်မှ

hteit-bet-hma — From the head/top end; from the top side

အသံတစ်သံ

a-than-tit-than — A voice; a single sound; one sound

အော်ကြွေးခဲ့သည်

aw-kywe-khèh-thi — Shouted out; called out loudly (past tense)

ခင်ဗျားမှားနေပါတယ်

khin-bya-hma-nè-ba-dè — You are mistaken; you are wrong (polite)

ခင်ဗျားတို့

khin-bya-doh — You all; your group (plural, polite address)

အမျိုးသမီးများ

a-myo-tha-mi-mya — Women; ladies; females (plural noun)

သွားရမည်ဖြစ်သည်

thwa-ya-mèh-phyit-thi — Must go; is required to go (formal)

ထိုအမျိုးသမီး

hto-a-myo-tha-mi — That woman; that particular lady

ထက်မြက်နေတာလဲ

htet-myat-nè-da-lè — Why so sharp; why so clever/brilliant

မိမိ၏

mi-mi-yèh — One's own; his/her own (reflexive possessive)

ထောင်ကို

htaung-go — The chin (object marker); toward the chin

တိုးတိုးလေး

toh-toh-lè — Softly; quietly; in a low voice

ပြောသည်

pyaw-thi — Said; spoke; told (formal past tense)

ကံကောင်းနေတယ်

kan-kaung-nè-dè — Is lucky; is fortunate; has good fortune

စစ်မှန်စွာပင်

sit-hman-zwa-pin — Truly; genuinely; in a real and sincere way

သတင်းအချက်အလက်များ၏

tha-din-a-chet-a-let-mya-yèh — Of the information; of the various facts

လွှမ်းမိုးမှုတစ်ခု

hlwan-moh-hmu-tit-khu — An influence; one instance of domination/influence

သူတို့အပေါ်

thu-doh-a-paw — On them; over them; regarding them

တိုးဝင်လာခဲ့သည်

toh-win-la-khèh-thi — Came in; crept in; entered gradually (past)

လူများက

lu-mya-ga — People; the people (subject marker)

သူတို့အား

thu-doh-a — To them; for them (dative object marker)

ဘာကိုကြည့်ရမည်

ba-go-kyi-ya-mèh — What to look at; what must be seen

ဘယ်အချိန်ကြည့်ရမည်

bè-a-chein-kyi-ya-mèh — When to look; what time to view something

လျှပ်စစ်ထရမ်ကားများကို

hlyat-sit-htram-ka-mya-go — The electric trams; the tramcars (object marker)

မည်သို့ရပ်တန့်ရမည်

mèh-thoh-yat-tan-ya-mèh — How to stop; how one must halt them

သူတောင်းစားများကို

thu-taung-sa-mya-go — The beggars; people who beg (object marker)

မည်သို့

mèh-thoh — How; in what manner; by what means

ရှောင်ရှားရမည်

shawng-sha-ya-mèh — Must avoid; should stay away from

ဘယ်လောက်ပေးရမည်

bè-lauq-pè-ya-mèh — How much must be paid; what amount to give

ထိုနေရာသည်

hto-nè-ya-thi — That place is; that location (subject marker)

မည်မျှ

mèh-hmya — How much; to what extent (formal interrogative)

ကြီးကြပ်လာမည်ဆိုသည်တို့ကို

kyi-kyat-la-mèh-so-thi-doh-go — What will be supervised; how things will develop

ပြောပြခဲ့ကြသည်

pyaw-pya-khèh-kya-thi — They told; they informed; they explained (past)