Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Page 1

Vocabulary

ဆိုတဲ့

hsoe-deh — Called, titled, or known as (relative clause marker)

စာအုပ်

sa-oat — Book; a bound written publication

တစ်အုပ်

ta-oat — One book; numerical classifier for books

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; toward, to

သင်

thin — You; second person pronoun (formal)

မဖတ်ဖူး

ma-phat-phu — Have never read something before

ဘဲနဲ့

beh-neh — Without doing something; without

ကျွန်တော့်

kya-naw — My; first person possessive pronoun (male formal)

အကြောင်း

a-kyaung — About; concerning; reason or matter

မသိနိုင်

ma-thi-naing — Cannot know; unable to understand or know

ဘူး

bhu — Negation particle indicating never or not ever

ဒါပေမဲ့

da-peh-meh — However; but; nevertheless; despite that

အဲဒါ

eh-da — That thing; that; referring to something mentioned

အရေးကြီး

a-yeh-kji — Important; significant; of great importance

တဲ့

deh — Relative clause particle; reportedly, they say

ကိစ္စ

kat-sa — Matter; affair; issue; concern

တော့

daw — Topic/contrast particle; now, then, as for

မဟုတ်

ma-hote — Is not; negation of 'to be'

အဲဒီ

eh-di — That (place or thing); over there

ရေးသား

yeh-tha — To write; to compose written work

ခဲ့တာ

kheh-ta — Past action nominalizer; something that was done

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit-pji — Being; having become; and also (connective)

သူဟာ

thu-ha — He/she (as topic); that person (topic marker)

အဓိက

a-di-ka — Main; primary; most important; principal

အားဖြင့်

a-phying — In terms of; by means of; regarding

အမှန်တရား

a-hmun-ta-ya — Truth; reality; the true state of things

ကိုပဲ

ko-beh — Only; exclusively (object marker with emphasis)

ပြော

pyaw — To say; to speak; to tell

ခဲ့တယ်

kheh-deh — Did (past tense marker); has done

သူ

thu — He; she; third person pronoun

မှန်းဆ

hmun-hsa — To guess; to estimate; to suppose

ပြီး

pji — After; finished; done; completion marker

ဖောင်းပွ

phaung-pwa — Exaggerated; inflated; embellished (as in storytelling)

အောင်

aung — So as to; in order to; successfully

ရေး

yeh — To write; writing (short form)

ခဲ့တဲ့

kheh-deh — Past relative clause marker; that was done

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; item

တွေ

tweh — Plural marker; things, people (pluralizer)

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present

ဘာမှ

ba-hma — Nothing; anything; (used in negation)

အန်တီ

an-ti — Aunt; respectful term for older woman

မုဆိုးမ

mu-hsoe-ma — Widow; a woman whose husband has died

ဒါမှမဟုတ်

da-hma-ma-hote — Or; otherwise; if not that then

မှ

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

လွဲပြီး

lweh-pji — Except for; apart from; other than

တစ်ချိန်

ta-chain — At one time; once; a period of time

ချိန်

chain — Time; moment; period; to weigh

မှာ

hma — At; in; location particle; telling/ordering particle

မုသာ

mu-tha — Lie; falsehood; untruth; deception

မပြော

ma-pyaw — Does not say; does not speak

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people

ဆိုလို့

hsoe-lo — Called; named; because they say; as for

ကျွန်တော်

kya-naw — I; me; first person pronoun (male formal)

ဘယ်တော့မှ

beh-daw-hma — Never; at no time whatsoever

မတွေ့

ma-tweh — Have not met; did not encounter

ဖူးဘူး

phu-bhu — Never have (experienced); experiential negation

ဆိုလိုတာကတော့

hsoe-lo-ta-ga-daw — What is meant is; what that means is

ရဲ့

yeh — Possessive particle; belonging to (informal)

ပြီးတော့

pji-daw — And then; after that; furthermore

နဲ့

neh — And; with; together with; using

တို့

do — Plural pronoun suffix; we, they, us

ဖော်ပြ

paw-pya — To describe; to depict; to present

ထားတာ

hta-ta — Having placed/done; something that was established

အရင်တုန်းက

a-yin-tone-ga — Previously; earlier; in the former time

ခဲ့သလို

kheh-tha-lo — Just as it was done before; similarly

ပဲ

beh — Only; just; emphasis particle; however

အချို့သော

a-cho-thaw — Some; certain; a few of

မှု

hmu — Nominalization suffix; act of; matter of

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; a lot; more

သော်လည်း

thaw-leh — However; although; even though; nevertheless

အမှန်တကယ်

a-hmun-ta-keh — Truly; really; in actual fact

ဖြစ်ခဲ့တဲ့

phyit-kheh-deh — That which happened; that occurred (past relative)

ထားတဲ့

hta-deh — That has been placed or done; kept

ဖြစ်တယ်

phyit-teh — Is; it is; occurs; happens (present tense)

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; currently; at this time

နိဂုံး

ni-gome — Conclusion; ending; final part

ချုပ်

chote — To conclude; to sew; to summarize

ပုံ

pone — Shape; picture; form; style; manner

ကတော့

ga-daw — As for; regarding (topic contrast particle)

ဒီလို

di-lo — Like this; in this way; thus

ကျွန်တော်တို့

kya-naw-do — We; us; our (male formal plural)

ဓားပြ

da-pya — Robber; bandit; armed thief

လိုဏ်ဂူ

lone-gu — Cave; cavern; underground tunnel

ထဲမှာ

hteh-hma — Inside; within; in the interior of

ဝှက်

hwet — To hide; to conceal; to keep secret

ငွေကြေး

ngweh-kjeh — Money; currency; financial matters

ရှာဖွေ

sha-bweh — To search for; to seek; to look for

တွေ့ရှိ

tweh-shi — To find; to discover; to come across

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; as a result of

ချမ်းသာ

chan-tha — Wealthy; prosperous; well-off; rich

သွားခဲ့တယ်

thwa-kheh-deh — Went; has gone (past tense of 'go')

တစ်ယောက်

ta-yout — One person; each person; someone

စီ

si — Each; apiece; respectively; per

ဒေါ်လာ

daw-la — Dollar; US currency unit

ခြောက်ထောင်

chout-htaung — Six thousand; the number 6,000

ရ

ya — To receive; to get; to be able to

အားလုံး

a-lone — All; everyone; everything; in total

က

ga — Subject marker; from; agent particle

ရွှေ

shweh — Gold; golden; made of gold

အုပ်စီး

oat-si — To invest; to put in charge of; govern

အခါ

a-kha — Time; occasion; when; instance

အတော်

a-taw — Quite; fairly; considerably; rather

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

kyout-met-bweh — Terrible; frightening; dreadful; formidable

ကောင်းတဲ့

kaung-deh — Good; nice; fine (relative clause form)

ငွေ

ngweh — Money; silver; currency

ပုံကြီး

pone-kji — Large amount; big sum; large figure

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One; a single item (general classifier)

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be; to become; to happen; to occur

ကဲ

keh — Like; such as; for example; well (interjection)

သဲချာ

theh-cha — Judge (title); magistrate (honorific term)

တရားသူကြီး

ta-ya-thu-kji — Judge; magistrate; justice of the court

ယူ

yu — To take; to get; to bring

အတိုး

a-toe — Interest (financial); profit; increment

ထုတ်

htoat — To take out; to extract; to publish

တစ်နှစ်

ta-hnit — One year; per year; annually

လုံး

lone — Whole; entire; all; round (classifier)

တစ်ရက်

ta-yet — One day; per day; daily

တစ်ဒေါ်လာ

ta-daw-la — One dollar; a single dollar amount

စေ

seh — To cause; to allow; to let; causative marker

ဘယ်လောက်

beh-lout — How much; how many; to what extent

သုံးရ

thone-ya — To use; to spend; to make use of

မယ်

meh — Future tense marker; will; going to

ဆိုတာ

hsoe-ta — The thing called; what is known as; that which

လောက်အောင်

lout-aung — Enough to; to the extent of; sufficiently

များပြား

mya-pya — Plentiful; abundant; numerous; many

လှတယ်

hla-deh — Beautiful; pretty; nice-looking; attractive

သူမ

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

သား

tha — Son; child; softening particle (endearment)

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As; in the capacity of; becoming

လက်ခံ

let-khan — To accept; to receive; to acknowledge

ယဉ်ကျေး

yin-kjeh — Civilized; cultured; polite; well-mannered

ပြုစု

pyu-su — To care for; to nurture; to look after

ပျိုးထောင်

pjo-htaung — To raise; to bring up; to cultivate

မယ်လို့

meh-lo — Intending to; planning to (future intention)

ဆုံးဖြတ်

hsone-phyat — To decide; to determine; to resolve

မုဆိုးမကြီး

mu-hsoe-ma-kji — Old widow; elderly widowed woman

ဟာ

ha — Topic marker; is (informal copula); that thing

လုပ်ကိုင်

lote-kaing — To work; to do; to perform tasks

ဆောင်ရွက်

hsaung-ywet — To carry out; to undertake; to execute

ညစ်မှိုင်း

nyit-hmaing — Gloomy; depressing; dull; dismal

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix; -ly; in a manner of

စနစ်တကျ

sa-nit-ta-kya — Systematically; in an orderly manner

ကိုယ်ကျင့်တရား

ko-kyit-ta-ya — Ethics; morality; personal conduct; virtue

ကောင်းစွာ

kaung-swa — Well; properly; in a good manner

နေထိုင်

neh-htaing — To live; to reside; to dwell; to stay

တာကြောင့်

ta-kyaung — Because of doing; due to the fact that

အိမ်ထဲ

ain-hteh — Inside the house; within the home

အမြဲ

a-myeh — Always; constantly; all the time

ရတာ

ya-ta — Getting; receiving; being able to (nominalizer)

ကြမ်းတမ်း

kyan-tan — Rough; harsh; crude; violent; rugged

ဒါကြောင့်

da-kyaung — Therefore; because of that; so; thus

နောက်ထပ်

nout-htat — Another; additional; furthermore; one more

မခံနိုင်

ma-khan-naing — Cannot bear; cannot tolerate; unbearable

တော့တဲ့

daw-deh — At that point; then (emphatic discourse marker)

ပြေးထွက်

pyeh-htwet — To run away; to flee; to escape