A Tale of Two Cities — Page 6

Vocabulary

အစပိုင်းတွင်

a-sa-paing-dwin — At the beginning; initially, at the start

သူသည်

thu-dhi — He/she; subject marker for third person

ကြီးမားစွာ

kji-ma-zwa — Greatly, enormously, in a grand manner

အိပ်ပျော်နေသော်လည်း

ait-pyaw-ne-thaw-le — Although sleeping deeply; despite being asleep

တဖြည်းဖြည်းနှင့်

ta-phji-phji-hnin — Gradually, little by little, slowly over time

အိပ်ရာပေါ်တွင်

ait-ya-baw-dwin — On the bed; upon the sleeping place

လှိမ့်လူးကာ

hlain-lu-ka — Rolling and tossing about restlessly

ပြောင်းလျားလာပြီး

pyaung-ljya-la-bji — Having shifted and changed position gradually

ဆူးလေများကဲ့သို့

zu-le-mya-keh-dho — Like thorns; resembling sharp prickly spines

ထက်မြက်သော

htet-myat-dho — Sharp, keen, pointed and piercing in nature

ဆံပင်များသည်

zan-bin-mya-dhi — The hairs; referring to sharp protruding hairs

စောင်ကို

zaung-go — The blanket; object marker for a blanket

ဆုတ်ဖြဲပစ်မည်ဟု

sout-phje-pyit-mi-hlu — As if about to tear and rip apart

ထင်ရသည့်အထိ

htin-ya-dhi-a-hti — To the extent that it seemed or appeared

မျက်နှာပြင်ပေါ်သို့

myat-hna-byin-baw-dho — Onto the surface; toward the flat surface

ထမောက်လာလေသည်

hta-mout-la-le-dhi — Rose up; came jutting upward to surface

ထိုအချိန်တွင်

hto-a-chain-dwin — At that moment; at that particular time

အလွန်ဒေါသထွက်သော

a-hlun-daw-dhet-dho — Extremely angry; in a very furious manner

အသံဖြင့်

a-than-phyin — With a voice; using a particular sound or tone

အော်ဟစ်လေသည်

aw-hit-le-dhi — Shouted out loud; cried out with a yell

သူမ

thu-ma — She; third person feminine pronoun

ထပ်မံလုပ်နေပြန်ပြီ

htat-man-lout-ne-pyan-bji — Is doing it again; repeating the same action

ငါ့ကို

nga-go — Me; object marker first person informal pronoun

မယုံနိုင်ရင်

ma-youn-nain-yin — If you don't believe; if unable to trust

ကြည့်ပါ

kji-ba — Look, please look; polite imperative to observe

စနစ်တကျနှင့်

sa-nit-ta-kja-hnin — Orderly, systematically, in a methodical manner

ကြိုးစားသပ်ရပ်သော

kjo-za-that-yat-dho — Neat and tidy; carefully groomed in appearance

အသွင်အပြင်ရှိသည့်

a-thwin-a-byin-shi-dhi — Having a certain appearance or outward manner

အမျိုးသမီးတစ်ဦးသည်

a-myo-tha-mi-tit-u-dhi — A certain woman; one particular female person

ထောင့်တစ်ခုတွင်

htaung-tit-khu-dwin — In a corner; within one specific corner area

ဒူးထောက်နေရာမှ

du-htout-ne-ya-hma — From a kneeling position; rising from kneeling

မိမိသည်

mi-mi-dhi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun referring to one's self

ဆိုလိုသောသူဖြစ်ကြောင်း

so-lo-dho-thu-phyit-kjoun — Being the person who is meant or intended

ထင်ရှားစေလောက်သည့်

htin-sha-ze-lout-dhi — Sufficient to make clearly evident or obvious

အလျင်တစ်ဆင့်

a-ljin-tit-sin — With swift speed; at one rapid step forward

ကြောက်ရွံ့ကိုယ်တုန်ကာ

kjout-yun-ko-tun-ka — Trembling with fear; body shaking from fright

ထပြီးလေသည်

hta-bji-le-dhi — Rose up and stood; got up suddenly

ဘာတဲ့

ba-deh — What did you say; expressing surprise or disbelief

ဟု

hlu — Quotative particle; meaning 'saying that' or 'thus'

မစ္စတာ

mit-sa-ta — Mister; honorific title for an adult male

ဖိနပ်တစ်ဖက်ရှာကာ

phe-nat-tit-phet-sha-ka — While searching for one shoe; looking for slipper

အိပ်ရာထဲမှ

ait-ya-hteh-hma — From inside the bed; from within the bedding

ကြည့်ရင်း

kji-yin — While looking; as one gazes or watches

ပြောလေသည်

pyaw-le-dhi — Said, spoke; uttered words to someone

မင်း

min — You; informal second person pronoun

ထပ်ပြန်လုပ်နေပြန်ပြီ

htat-pyan-lout-ne-pyan-bji — Doing it again and again; repeating once more

ဟုတ်လား

hout-la — Is that so? Really? Questioning tag expression

ဤဒုတိယနှုတ်ဆက်ခြင်းဖြင့်

i-du-ti-ya-hnout-set-chin-phyin — With this second greeting; using a second farewell

မနက်ခင်းကို

ma-net-kjin-go — The morning; object marker referring to morning time

ကြိုဆိုပြီးနောက်

kjo-so-bji-nout — After welcoming; having greeted the morning

တတိယအကြိမ်အနေဖြင့်

ta-ti-ya-a-kjin-a-ne-phyin — For the third time; as a third instance

အမျိုးသမီးအပေါ်သို့

a-myo-tha-mi-a-baw-dho — Toward the woman; in the direction of her

ဖိနပ်တစ်ဖက်ပစ်ချလိုက်သည်

phe-nat-tit-phet-pyit-cha-lout-dhi — Threw one shoe at her; flung a slipper

ထိုဖိနပ်သည်

hto-phe-nat-dhi — That shoe; referring to the mentioned footwear

အလွန်ပျစ်ကျနေသောဖိနပ်ဖြစ်ပြီး

a-hlun-pyit-kja-ne-dho-phe-nat-phyit-bji — Being a very well-polished gleaming shoe

အိမ်တွင်းစီးပွားနှင့်

ain-dwin-si-bwa-hnin — Related to household finances and domestic economy

ပတ်သက်သော

pat-thet-dho — Related to; concerning or connected with something

ထူးဆန်းသောအကြောင်းအရာကို

htu-zan-dho-a-kjoun-a-ya-go — A strange unusual matter or curious subject

မိတ်ဆက်ပေးနိုင်ပေမည်

meit-set-pe-nain-pe-mi — Could perhaps introduce or present something remarkable

ဘဏ်ချိန်ပြီးနောက်

ban-chain-bji-nout — After banking hours; following the close of business

သန့်ရှင်းသောဖိနပ်ဝတ်ကာ

than-shin-dho-phe-nat-wut-ka — Wearing clean polished shoes; putting on neat footwear

အိမ်ပြန်တတ်သော်လည်း

ain-pyan-tat-thaw-le — Although he usually returns home; despite going home

နောက်နေ့မနက်

nout-ne-ma-net — The next morning; the following day's morning

ထိုဖိနပ်များပေါ်တွင်

hto-phe-nat-mya-baw-dwin — On those shoes; upon the surface of those footwear

ရွှံ့ဖုံးနေသည်ကို

shun-phoun-ne-dhi-go — Being covered with mud; coated in dirt or mud

မကြာခဏ

ma-kja-kha-na — Often, frequently, many times; not rarely

တွေ့ရလေ့ရှိသည်

twe-ya-leh-shi-dhi — Would often find or encounter; habitually seen

မိမိပစ်သောဖိနပ်

mi-mi-pyit-dho-phe-nat — The shoe that he himself threw; his own shoe

မပေါက်မှန်ပြီးနောက်

ma-pout-hman-bji-nout — After missing the target; having failed to hit

ထပ်မံပြောဆိုရာတွင်

htat-man-pyaw-so-ya-dwin — When speaking further; upon saying additionally

ပြောင်းလဲကာ

pyaung-leh-ka — Changing tone; shifting manner while speaking

ဘာလုပ်နေတာလဲ

ba-lout-ne-ta-leh — What are you doing? Questioning current action

အားတိုက်ကောင်မ

a-tout-kaung-ma — Good girl; encouraging term used sarcastically or kindly

ကျွန်မ

kja-ma — I, me; polite first person pronoun for females

ဆုတောင်းနေတာသာ

su-taung-ne-ta-tha — Am only praying; merely offering a prayer

ဖြစ်ပါတယ်

phyit-ba-deh — It is so; polite affirmative statement or confirmation

ဆုတောင်းနေတာတဲ့

su-taung-ne-ta-deh — She says she is praying; reported speech of praying

မင်းက

min-ga — You (informal); subject marker with second person pronoun

ကောင်းတဲ့မိန်းမပဲ

kaung-deh-mein-ma-beh — Just a good woman; calling her a decent wife

ဒူးထောက်ချကာ

du-htout-cha-ka — Having knelt down; dropping to one's knees

ငါ့ဆန့်ကျင်ဆုတောင်းတာ

nga-zan-kjin-su-taung-ta — Praying against me; directing prayer in opposition

ဘာဆိုလိုတာလဲ

ba-so-lo-ta-leh — What do you mean? Asking for clarification

သင့်ကို

thin-go — You (polite); object marker for second person formal

ဆန့်ကျင်ဆုတောင်းတာ

zan-kjin-su-taung-ta — Praying against someone; interceding in opposition

မဟုတ်ပါဘူး

ma-hout-ba-bu — It is not so; polite strong negation or denial

သင့်အတွက်

thin-a-twet — For you; on your behalf; benefiting you

ဆုတောင်းနေတာပါ

su-taung-ne-ta-ba — I am praying for you; interceding on your behalf

မဟုတ်ဘူး

ma-hout-bu — It is not; informal negation or denial

မဟုတ်ဘူးလည်း

ma-hout-bu-le — Nor is it so; neither; adding another negation

ဆိုပါ

so-ba — Say it; polite imperative asking someone to speak

ထိုသို့ပြုမူခွင့်

hto-dho-pyu-mu-khwin — Permission to act in such a way

မပေးဘူး

ma-pe-bu — Will not give; refusing to allow or grant

ဒီမှာ

di-hma — Here; at this place or location

မင်းရဲ့မေမေက

min-yeh-me-me-ga — Your mother; referring to the spouse's mother

မင်းဖေဖေရဲ့

min-phe-phe-yeh — Your father's; possessive referring to father

ကြွယ်ဝချမ်းသာမှုကို

kjwe-wa-chan-tha-hmu-go — Wealth and prosperity; richness and comfortable life

ဆန့်ကျင်ဆုတောင်းနေတာ

zan-kjin-su-taung-ne-ta — Praying against; persistently interceding in opposition