A Study in Scarlet — Page 4

Vocabulary

သူက

thu ka — He/she (subject marker); referring to a person

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw — My; first-person possessive pronoun (male speaker)

ဆင်းရဲ

hsin-yè — Poor; experiencing poverty or hardship

ဒုက္ခ

douk-kha — Suffering; distress; trouble or hardship

များကို

myá-go — Plural object marker; referring to multiple things

နားထောင်

ná-htaung — To listen; to pay attention to someone speaking

ပြီးနောက်

pyí-nout — After; following a completed action or event

သနား

tha-ná — To feel compassion; to pity someone

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that/which (literary form)

စိတ်

seit — Mind; heart; feeling or mental state

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by means of; instrumental particle

ပြော

pyaw — To speak; to say; to tell someone something

လေသည်

lè-dhi — Sentence-final particle indicating observed habitual action

အခု

a-khu — Now; at this moment; currently

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative pronoun asking about something

လုပ်

louk — To do; to make; to perform an action

နေတာ

nè-da — Ongoing action; currently doing something

လဲ

lè — Question particle; used to ask questions

တည်းခိုစရာ

tè-kho-sa-ya — Place to stay; accommodation; lodging place

ရှာ

sha — To search; to look for something

နေတယ်

nè-dè — Present continuous tense marker; currently doing

လို့

lo — Quotative particle; because; saying that

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I; first-person singular pronoun (male speaker)

ဖြေ

hpyè — To answer; to respond; to solve

သင့်တော်

thin-daw — Appropriate; suitable; fitting for a purpose

စျေးနှုန်း

zé-hnoun — Price; cost; rate of something

နဲ့

nè — And; with; together with someone or something

သက်တောင့်သက်သာ

thet-taung-thet-tha — Comfortable; at ease; relaxed and convenient

ရှိတဲ့

shi-dè — That has; which exists; having a certain quality

အခန်း

a-khan — Room; a space within a building

တွေ

twè — Plural marker for nouns; things or people

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; can; ability particle

နိုင်

nain — Can; able to; capable of doing something

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not; no

ဆိုတဲ့

so-dè — Called; so-called; that is said to be

ပြဿနာ

pya-tha-na — Problem; issue; difficulty to be resolved

ကို

go — Object marker; direction particle; to/toward

ဖြေရှင်း

hpyè-shin — To solve; to resolve a problem or issue

ဖို့

hpo — In order to; for the purpose of doing

ကြိုးစား

kyo-zá — To try hard; to make an effort; strive

ဒါ

da — This; that; referring to something nearby

ဆန်းကြယ်

hsán-jè — Wonderful; amazing; remarkable; extraordinary

တဲ့

dè — Relative clause particle; that; which (colloquial)

ကိစ္စ

kei-sa — Matter; affair; issue; a thing to deal with

ပဲ

bè — Only; just; emphatic particle; nothing but

သူငယ်ချင်း

thu-ngè-jin — Friend; close companion; buddy

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from; because of

မှတ်ချက်

hmat-chè — Comment; remark; observation about something

ပြု

pyu — To do; to make; to perform (formal usage)

ဒီနေ့

di-nè — Today; this day

ထို

hto — That; those; demonstrative pronoun (literary)

စကားလုံး

sa-ká-loun — Word; vocabulary item; a unit of language

ဆီ

si — To; toward; directional particle for people

သုံး

thoun — To use; to utilize; also the number three

ဒုတိယမြောက်

du-ti-ya-myout — Second; the ordinal number two

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be; to become; to happen; to exist

နော်

naw — Sentence-final particle seeking agreement or confirmation

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma-hsoung — First; the very first; at the beginning

တော့

daw — Topic particle; then; well then; as for

ဘယ်သူ

bè-dhu — Who; which person; interrogative pronoun

မေး

mè — To ask; to question; to inquire

ဆေးရုံ

hsè-youn — Hospital; medical facility for treating patients

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle; also ordering particle

ဓာတုဗေဒ

da-tu-bè-da — Chemistry; the scientific study of chemical substances

ဓာတ်ခွဲ

dat-khwè — Laboratory; place for scientific experiments and tests

ခန်း

khan — Room; hall; chamber; also to dry up

အလုပ်

a-louk — Work; job; employment; task to be done

နေတဲ့

nè-dè — Who is; that is (currently doing something)

တစ်ယောက်

ta-yout — One person; a single individual

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also; included; please

သူ

thu — He; she; third-person pronoun

တွေ့

twè — To meet; to encounter; to find

ထားတဲ့

hta-dè — Placed; kept; that has been stored or set

ချောမော

chaw-maw — Handsome; good-looking; attractive in appearance

တူညီ

tu-nyi — Same; identical; equal; to be the same

နှစ်ဝက်

hna-wet — Half; one half of something

ကျ

kya — To fall; to decrease; to be one's turn

ကုန်ကျစရိတ်

koun-kya-za-yeit — Expense; cost; expenditure for something

မျှဝေ

hmya-wè — To share; to divide equally among people

မယ့်

mè — Future tense marker; will; going to do

ဒီ

di — This; here; demonstrative adjective (colloquial)

နံနက်

nan-net — Morning; the early part of the day

ကိုယ့်ကိုကိုယ်

ko-go-go — Oneself; by oneself; reflexive pronoun

ညည်းညူ

nyi-nyu — To complain; to grumble; to whine about something

ဟာ

ha — Topic marker; that thing; emphatic particle

သူ့

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

အိတ်ကပ်

eit-kap — Pocket; small pouch in clothing for items

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; because of

အများကြီး

a-myá-ji — A lot; very much; in great quantity

ကြီး

ji — Big; large; great; elder; major

လွန်း

loun — Too; excessively; overly (intensifier particle)

အမလေး

a-ma-lè — Oh my!; exclamation of surprise or dismay

အော်

aw — To shout; to cry out; exclamation particle

လိုက်

lait — To follow; directional/aspectual verb particle

သည်

dhi — Present tense/topic marker; formal sentence particle

တကယ်

ta-kè — Really; truly; actually; in truth

ဆိုရင်

so-yin — If; in case; when speaking of; conditional particle

အသင့်တော်ဆုံး

a-thin-daw-hsoun — Most suitable; most appropriate; best fitting choice

တည်း

tè — Only; alone; just; restrictive final particle

နေ

nè — To stay; to live; progressive aspect marker

တာ

da — Nominalizer; the fact that; action noun particle

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle

လုပ်ဖော်ကိုင်ဖက်

louk-hpaw-kain-bet — Colleague; coworker; fellow worker

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; there is/are

ပို

po — More; even more; to a greater degree

နှစ်သက်

hna-thet — To like; to enjoy; to be fond of

တယ်

dè — Declarative sentence-final particle; indicates statement

လူငယ်

lu-ngè — Young person; youth; young adult

ဝိုင်

wain — Wine; alcoholic grape drink; also circle/round

ဖန်ခွက်

hpan-khwet — Glass; drinking glass; cup made of glass

ကျော်

kjaw — Famous; beyond; to cross over; past

ထူးဆန်း

htu-hsan — Strange; unusual; peculiar; out of the ordinary

နည်း

hnì — Method; way; few; little; how to

ကြည့်

kji — To look; to watch; to observe something

မင်း

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

ရှာလော့

sha-law — Go search!; imperative to look for something

ဟုမ်း

houm — Home; residence; place where one lives

သိ

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

သေးဘူး

thè-bu — Not yet; haven't done something yet

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that (literary form)

တစ်ဆက်တည်း

ta-hset-tè — Continuously; all at once; in one stretch

အဖြစ်

a-hpyit — As; in the role of; becoming something

ဂရု

ga-yu — Care; attention; to take care of something

ပြုချင်

pyu-jin — Want to do; desire to perform an action

ကောင်း

kaun — Good; nice; well; positive quality

ဘူး

bu — Negation particle; never; not at all

ဘာကြောင့်

ba-jaun — Why; for what reason; what cause

ဆန့်ကျင်

hsan-jin — To oppose; to go against; to resist

ဘက်

bet — Side; direction; toward; party or faction

မှ

hma — From; only; at; source or origin particle

အတွေး

a-twè — Thought; idea; something one thinks about

နည်းနည်း

hnì-hnì — A little; a bit; slightly; small amount

သိပ္ပံပညာ

thei-pan-pyin-nya — Science; scientific knowledge and study

အချို့

a-cho — Some; certain; a few of a group

ကဏ္ဍ

kan-da — Field; sector; domain of study or work

များ

myá — Plural marker; many; more than one

စိတ်အားထက်သန်

seit-á-htet-than — Enthusiastic; passionate; eager and motivated

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person; a single individual (formal)

လောက်

lout — About; approximately; enough; to the extent of

တော်တော်

daw-daw — Quite; fairly; considerably; rather a lot

ကောင်

kaun — Guy; fellow; informal term for a young male

ဆေး

hsè — Medicine; drug; also paint or dye

ကျောင်းသား

kyaun-dhá — Student; pupil; person attending school

မယ်

mè — Future tense particle; will; going to

ထင်

htin — To think; to seem; to appear; to suppose

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Not; is not; negation of being or identity

ရည်ရွယ်

yei-ywè — To intend; to aim for; to have a purpose

ထား

hta — To keep; to place; to put aside; to maintain

ဆို

so — To say; quotative marker; if; called