A Room with a View — Page 8

Vocabulary

ဒါဟာ

da ha — This is; used to introduce or identify something

တကယ်တော့

ta kyay daw — Actually; in reality; to tell the truth

သည်

thì — Grammatical particle marking subject or present tense

ခရမ်းချဉ်သီး

kha yàn jìn thí — Eggplant; a purple edible fruit vegetable

၏

ì — Possessive or linking particle in formal writing

အရောင်

a yaung — Color; the visual appearance of hue

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; connecting two words or phrases

ပုံသဏ္ဍာန်

pone tha dan — Shape; form; physical appearance of something

ရှိသော

shì thaw — Which has; having; possessing a quality

တင်းတင်းကျပ်ကျပ်

tìn tìn kyat kyat — Tightly packed; firmly compressed; very snug

အထပ်ထပ်

a htat htat — In layers; repeatedly layered one on another

ဖြည့်ထားသည့်

phyay hta thì — Filled; stuffed; packed with something inside

ကုလားထိုင်

ka la htaing — Chair; a seat with a back for sitting

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One; a single item or thing

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twin — On top of; upon a surface

ထိုင်နေ

htaing nay — Sitting; remaining seated at a location

ပြီးဖြစ်သည်

pyì phyit thì — Has already happened; is already completed

သူမ

thu ma — She; her; third person feminine pronoun

မစ္စတာ

mit sa ta — Mister; formal title for an adult male

စကားပြော

za ga pyaw — To speak; to have a conversation

နေပြီး

nay pyì — While continuing; ongoing and then proceeding

ပြောဆို

pyaw hsò — To say; to speak; to converse with someone

နေစဉ်

nay zin — While; during the time of doing something

ရှည်လျား

shay lyá — Long; extended in length or duration

ကျဉ်းမြောင်းသော

kjìn myaung thaw — Narrow; restricted in width or breadth

ခေါင်း

khaung — Head; the upper part of the body

မမြင်နိုင်သော

ma myin naing thaw — Unable to see; not visible; invisible

အတားအဆီး

a tá a hsí — Obstacle; barrier; something blocking progress

ကို

go — Object marker particle; toward; to

ဖြိုဖျက်

phyo phyak — To destroy; to break down; to demolish

နေသကဲ့သို့

nay tha kè thò — As if; like; in the manner of doing

နှေးနှေး

hnéy hnéy — Slowly; at a slow unhurried pace

တနည်းတစ်ပုံ

ta néy tit pone — In another way; differently; in a different manner

မှန်မှန်

hmàn hmàn — Regularly; consistently; in a steady rhythm

ရှေ့တိုး

shéy tó — To move forward; to advance; progress ahead

နောက်ဆုတ်

naut hsout — To move backward; to retreat; step back

လှုပ်ရှား

hlout shá — To move; to be active; motion or movement

နေသည်

nay thì — Is; continues to be; ongoing action particle

ကျွန်မတို့

chnama dó — We; us (female speaker, inclusive or group)

သင့်ကို

thín go — To you; directed at you (formal)

အလွန်

a lwun — Very; extremely; to a great degree

ကျေးဇူးတင်

kjé zú tin — To thank; to be grateful; express appreciation

ပါသည်

pa thì — Polite sentence-ending affirmative particle

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

က

ga — Subject marker particle; from; by

ပြောနေ

pyaw nay — Is saying; currently speaking or talking

ပထမဆုံး

pa hta ma hsòn — First; the very first in order

ညနေ

nya nay — Evening; late afternoon time of day

အများကြီး

a má jí — A lot; very much; a great amount

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a di pè — Meaning; significance; the sense of something

ရှိသည်

shì thì — There is; to exist; to have

သင်

thín — You; second person pronoun (formal)

ရောက်လာ

yaut la — To arrive; to come to a place

သောအခါ

thaw a kha — When; at the time that something happens

အထူးထူး

a htú htú — Various special things; unusually; particularly

အဆန်းဆန်း

a hsàn hsàn — Strange; unusual; unfamiliar things

အခက်ခဲ

a khak khè — Difficulty; hardship; challenging circumstances

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; which; that

အချိန်ကာလ

a chein ka la — Period of time; a span or duration

ကြုံတွေ့

kjòn twè — To encounter; to experience; to face something

နေရသည်

nay ya thì — Have to be; must endure a situation

သူ

thu — He; him; third person singular pronoun

စိတ်မကောင်း

seit ma kaung — Sorry; to feel bad; regretful feeling

ကြောင်း

kjaung — Clause-ending particle indicating reported speech

ဖော်ပြ

phaw pya — To express; to indicate; to show clearly

လိုက်သည်

lait thì — Did; performed an action (completive particle)

မင်း

mín — You; informal second person pronoun

တစ်ခါတလေ

tit kha ta lay — Sometimes; occasionally; from time to time

ညစာ

nya za — Dinner; evening meal

စားချိန်

sá chein — Mealtime; time set aside for eating

တွင်

twin — In; at; within a place or time

မျက်နှာချင်းဆိုင်

myak hna jìn hsaing — Face to face; directly opposite each other

ထိုင်ခဲ့သော

htaing khè thaw — Who sat; having sat in a place

အိုမင်းသူ

o mín thu — Elderly person; an old aged individual

တစ်ဦး

tit ú — One person; a single individual

နာမည်

na mè — Name; what someone or something is called

သိသလား

thì tha la — Do you know? asking about someone's knowledge

မိတ်ဆွေ

mait swe — Friend; a close acquaintance or companion

လား

la — Question particle for yes/no questions

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kjana dó — We; us (male speaker, group)

ရင်းနှီး

yin ní — Familiar; close; intimate with someone

ဧည့်နှုတ်ခမ်းဆောင်

é hnout khàn hsaung — Lobby; reception area of a building

သူများ

thu myá — They; them; other people or those people

ကဲ့သို့

kè thò — Like; similar to; in the same way

ပင်

pin — Emphatic particle meaning indeed; even; also

ဒါဆိုရင်

da hsò yin — In that case; if so; then

ကျွန်မ

chnama — I; me (female speaker, polite)

နောက်ထပ်

naut htat — Another; additional; one more thing

မပြော

ma pyaw — Don't say; not speaking; to not tell

တော့ပါ

daw pa — Please do; polite imperative softening particle

အနည်းငယ်

a né ngway — A little; a small amount; slightly

သာ

tha — Only; just; merely; restrictive particle

တိုက်တွန်း

tite twún — To encourage; to urge; to persuade someone

လိုက်ပြီး

lait pyì — After doing; having done and then continuing

ပိုမို

po mo — More; even more; to a greater degree

ပြော

pyaw — To say; to speak; to tell

တစ်နည်း

tit néy — One way; alternatively; in another manner

အားဖြင့်

a phyin — By means of; through; in terms of

နိဂုံးချုပ်

ni goún jout — Conclusion; summary; wrapping up finally

ကာ

ka — While; as; continuing action connector particle

ပြောသည်

pyaw thì — Says; speaks; states something to someone

ငယ်ရွယ်သော

ngay ywè thaw — Young; youthful; of a young age

မြေးမ

mjé ma — Granddaughter; female grandchild

နှစ်ဦး

hnit ú — Two people; a pair of individuals

ဖြစ်သော

phyit thaw — Who is; being; that is (relative clause)

ကြီးကြပ်သူ

ji jat thu — Supervisor; overseer; someone in charge

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit pyì — Being; having become; and also is

ဘာမျှ

bha hmya — Nothing at all; not anything whatsoever

မသိသော

ma thì thaw — Who does not know; ignorant of something

လူများ

lu myá — People; many persons; individuals collectively

ထံ

htan — To; toward a person; at someone's place

ကြွေးဝပ်

kjwé wot — To be in debt; owing something to someone

စေမည်

say mì — Will cause; will make someone do something

ဆိုလျှင်

hsò lyin — If; supposing that; in the case of

၎င်း

dí gàn — It; that; he/she (formal third person reference)

ဂုရုတဝင်သော

gu ru ta win thaw — Important; significant; worthy of serious attention

ကိစ္စ

kít sa — Matter; affair; issue; something to deal with

ဖြစ်လိမ့်မည်

phyit lein mì — Will become; will surely happen in future

အပြုအမူ

a pyu a mu — Behavior; conduct; the way one acts

မသင့်လျော်

ma thin lyaw — Inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting the situation

ခဲ့ပါ

khè pa — Did; past tense polite action marker

အကောင်းဆုံး

a kaung hsòn — Best; the most good; highest quality

အတွက်

a twak — For; for the sake of; on behalf of

ဆောင်ရွက်

hsaung ywak — To carry out; to perform; to undertake a task

ခဲ့သည်

khè thì — Did; past tense marker for completed actions

မျှော်လင့်

hmyaw lin — To hope; to expect; to look forward to

သဘာဝကျကျ

tha ba wa kja kja — Naturally; in a natural manner; spontaneously

တွေးတော

twé taw — To think; to ponder; to reflect carefully

မိနစ်

mi nit — Minute; a unit of sixty seconds

ကြာပြီးနောက်

kjà pyì naut — After some time; following a duration later

ထပ်ဆောင်း

htat hsaung — To add; to supplement; additionally contribute

ပြောလိုက်သည်

pyaw lait thì — Said; spoke (completed speech action)

ထိုသို့

htò thò — In that way; like that; accordingly

ဆိုသော်လည်း

hsò thaw lè — Even though; although; despite saying that

လက်ခံ

lak khan — To accept; to receive; to welcome something

ခြင်းကြောင့်

chìn kjaung — Because of; due to; as a result of

ကြီးစွာသော

jí zwà thaw — Great; major; of a large significant scale

ထိခိုက်မှု

hti kite hmu — Damage; harm; injury caused to something

ဖြစ်လာ

phyit la — To become; to come to be; to arise

လိမ့်မည်

lein mì — Will; future tense marker indicating likelihood

ကျွန်တော်

kjana — I; me (male speaker, polite formal)

မထင်ပါ

ma htin pa — I don't think so; do not believe

မရှိပါ

ma shì pa — There isn't; does not exist; none

ဟုတ်တယ်

hout dè — Yes; that's right; correct; indeed so

သို့သော်

thò thaw — However; but; nevertheless; on the other hand

နေ၍

nay ywè — Being; while in a state; because of being

မဖြစ်ပါ

ma phyit pa — Cannot be; it won't do; impossible

ထူးဆန်းသော

htú hsàn thaw — Strange; peculiar; odd; unusual in nature

လူ

lu — Person; human being; an individual

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thì — Is; to be; to exist as something