A Tale of Two Cities — Page 7

Vocabulary

မင်းမှာ

min hma — You have; indicating possession belonging to you

တာဝန်သိတဲ့

ta-wan thi-deh — Responsible; conscientious; dutiful person or quality

မိခင်တစ်ယောက်

mi-khin tit-yout — A mother; one female parent figure

ရှိတယ်

shi-deh — There is; exists; to have something

ရှိတယ်နော်

shi-deh naw — There is, you know; exists with emphasis or confirmation

သားရေ

tha-yay — Dear son; affectionate address to one's son

ဘာသာရေးကြီးစားတဲ့

ba-tha-yay ji-za-deh — Deeply religious; very devout in religious practice

သွားပြီး

thwa-byi — Having gone; after going somewhere to do something

ဒူးထောက်ကျိုးနဲ့

du-dauk kyoe-neh — With kneeling down; in a kneeling position

ဆုတောင်းနေတာ

su-daung-nay-da — Is praying; in the act of offering prayers

သူ့တစ်ဦးတည်းသောသားရဲ့

thu tit-u-deh-daw tha-yeh — Her only son; belonging to her sole child

ပါးစပ်မှ

pa-zat hma — From the mouth; spoken from one's lips

မုန့်နဲ့ထောပတ်

moun-neh thaw-bat — Bread and butter; basic staple food items

ဆွဲထုတ်ခွင့်ရပါစေလို့

sweh-tote hkwin-ya-ba-zay-lo — May she be granted the right to take away

မာစတာ

ma-sa-ta — Master; title of respect for a male person

ကြည့်ရှုတ်တစ်ထည်သာ

kji-shout tit-hnyeh-tha — Only one single garment or piece of clothing

ဝတ်ထားသော

wut-hta-daw — Wearing; dressed in a particular clothing item

သည်

thi — Formal subject marker; indicates topic of sentence

ဤသို့ပြောသည်ကို

i-dho-pyaw-dhi-go — At hearing this said; upon being told this

အလွန်မကျေနပ်ဘဲ

a-lwan ma-kjay-nat-beh — Being very displeased; extremely unsatisfied with something

မိခင်ဆီ

mi-khin-zi — Toward the mother; in the direction of mother

လှည့်ကာ

hleh-ka — Turning around; after turning to face someone

မိမိ၏

mi-mi-yeh — One's own; belonging to oneself reflexively

ကိုယ်ပိုင်စားဝတ်နေရေးအတွက်

ko-pine-za-wut-nay-yay-a-twet — For one's own food clothing and shelter needs

ဆုတောင်းချက်များ

su-daung-jet-mya — Prayers; multiple requests or petitions made in prayer

ဆန့်ကျင်ပျောက်ကွယ်သွားမည်ကို

san-kjin-pyout-kweh-thwa-meh-go — That prayers opposing will disappear and be nullified

အပြင်းအထန်

a-pyin-a-htan — Strongly; with great force or intensity vehemently

ကန့်ကွက်လိုက်သည်

kan-gwet-lite-thi — Objected; protested strongly against something or someone

ပြီးတော့

byi-daw — And then; furthermore; after that connecting events

မင်းထင်သလား

min-htin-tha-la — Do you think; what do you suppose or believe

မာနကြီးသောမိန်းမ

ma-na-ji-daw mein-ma — Proud arrogant woman; a female with great vanity

ဟု

hu — Quotative marker meaning thus said or as follows

မစ္စတာ

mit-sa-ta — Mister; formal title of address for a man

မသိမသာ

ma-thi-ma-tha — Subtly; indirectly; in an understated or veiled manner

ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်ဖြစ်သောစကားဖြင့်

san-kjin-bet-phyit-daw-za-ga-phyin — With opposite or contradictory words; using counter speech

ပြောလိုက်သည်

pyaw-lite-thi — Said; uttered; spoke words to someone

မင်းရဲ့ဆုတောင်းချက်တွေဟာ

min-yeh-su-daung-jet-tway-ha — Your prayers; the petitions that you have made

တန်ဖိုးဘယ်လောက်ရှိတယ်လို့

tan-bo-beh-lout-shi-deh-lo — How much value do they have according to you

မင်းထင်သလဲ

min-htin-tha-leh — What do you think; what is your opinion

မင်းဆုတောင်းချက်တွေကို

min-su-daung-jet-tway-go — Your prayers; referring to the requests you prayed

မင်းဘယ်နှစ်ဖိုးသတ်မှတ်သလဲ

min-beh-hnit-bo-thut-hmat-tha-leh — How much do you value or price them yourself

ပြောပါ

pyaw-ba — Please say; tell me; speak up politely

အဲဒါတွေဟာ

eh-da-tway-ha — Those things; referring to previously mentioned items

နှလုံးသားထဲကသာ

hnalone-tha-deh-ga-tha — Only from the heart; purely from innermost feelings

ထွက်လာတာပါ

htwet-la-da-ba — They come out; they emerge or originate from within

တန်ဖိုးကတော့

tan-bo-ga-daw — As for the value; regarding the worth or price

ဒါထက်မပိုပါဘူး

da-dhet-ma-po-ba-bu — Not more than that; does not exceed this amount

ဒါထက်

da-dhet — More than that; beyond or exceeding this amount

တန်ဖိုးမပိုဘူးလေ

tan-bo-ma-po-bu-lay — The value does not exceed that amount at all

ထပ်ဆိုလိုက်သည်

htat-so-lite-thi — Repeated; said again; reiterated a previous statement

အဲဒါဆို

eh-da-zo — In that case; if that is so then

သိပ်တန်ဖိုးမရှိဘူးပေါ့

thit-tan-bo-ma-shi-bu-paw — Not very valuable then; has little worth or significance

ဘယ်လိုပဲဆိုဆို

beh-lo-beh-zo-zo — Whatever the case; no matter what is said

ငါ့ကို

nga-go — To me; directed at me as the object

ဆုတောင်းဆန့်ကျင်မယ့်ကိစ္စကို

su-daung-san-kjin-meh-kit-sa-go — The matter of opposing prayers; prayer-countering affairs

ငါ

nga — I; me; first person informal pronoun

ခွင့်မပြုဘူး

hkwin-ma-pyu-bu — Will not allow; do not permit this action

ပြောထားတယ်နော်

pyaw-hta-deh-naw — Have already said; told you this before remember

ငါ့မှာ

nga-hma — I have; in me; within my capacity or possession

ခံနိုင်ရည်မရှိဘူး

khan-nine-yi-ma-shi-bu — Cannot tolerate; have no endurance or patience for

မင်းရဲ့

min-yeh — Your; belonging to you possessive second person

ဝှက်ဝှက်ကွယ်ကွယ်

hwet-hwet-kweh-kweh — Secretly; hidden away; done in a concealed manner

ပြုမူချက်ကြောင့်

pyu-mu-jet-kjoun — Because of your behavior; due to your conduct

ငါကံဆိုးလာမယ့်ကိစ္စကို

nga-kan-zo-la-meh-kit-sa-go — The matter of bad luck coming to me as result

မင်း

min — You; second person informal pronoun in Burmese

ဒူးထောက်ကျိုးချဲ့ချင်လှပေသော်

du-dauk-kyoe-jeh-jin-hla-beh-daw — Even if you wish to kneel down and pray

မင်းရဲ့ခင်ပွန်းနဲ့

min-yeh-khin-bun-neh — Your husband and; together with your spouse

သားသမီးအကျိုးအတွက်

tha-thamee-a-kjo-a-twet — For the benefit of your children's wellbeing

ဒူးထောက်ကျိုးချဲ့ပါ

du-dauk-kyoe-jeh-ba — Please go ahead and kneel down in prayer

သူတို့ကို

thu-do-go — Toward them; for them as the object pronoun

ဆန့်ကျင်ပြီးတော့

san-kjin-byi-daw — After opposing; having gone against someone or something

မဟုတ်ဘဲ

ma-hout-beh — Rather than; instead of; not being the case

သဘာဝမကျသောမိန်းမမျိုးမဟုတ်သောမိန်းမ

tha-ba-wa-ma-kja-daw-mein-ma-myo-ma-hout-daw-mein-ma — An unnatural woman; not the type of unnatural woman

ရှိခဲ့မယ်ဆိုရင်

shi-geh-meh-zo-yin — If there had been; supposing one had existed

ဒီကောင်လေးမှာလည်း

di-kaung-lay-hma-leh — This boy too; this young fellow also has

သဘာဝမကျသောမိခင်မျိုးမဟုတ်သောမိခင်

tha-ba-wa-ma-kja-daw-mi-khin-myo-ma-hout-daw-mi-khin — Not an unnatural type of mother; a proper mother

ပြန်ဆုတောင်းခြင်းခံရပြီး

pyan-su-daung-chin-khan-ya-byi — Having received counter-prayers prayed back against one

တိုက်ဖျက်ခြင်းခံပြီး

tite-phyet-chin-khan-byi — Having been destroyed or demolished; after being attacked

ဘာသာရေးနည်းဖြင့်

ba-tha-yay-ni-phyin — By religious means; through a religious method or way

အကံဆိုးဆုံးဆီ

a-kan-zo-zone-zi — Toward the worst fate; to the most unfortunate outcome

တွန်းပို့ခြင်းခံရမည့်အစား

tun-po-chin-khan-ya-meh-a-za — Instead of being pushed toward; rather than being driven

ပြီးခဲ့သောအပတ်က

byi-geh-daw-a-pat-ga — Last week; during the week that has passed

ငွေတချို့

ngway-ta-cho — Some money; a certain amount of funds or cash

ရှာနိုင်ခဲ့ပေလိမ့်မည်

sha-nine-geh-beh-lain-meh — Would have been able to find or earn money

ဝပါဟဲ့

wa-ba-heh — Whoa hey; exclamation expressing surprise or strong emotion

မစ္စတာက

mit-sa-ta-ga — Mister; the subject marker following the title Mister