Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Page 2

Vocabulary

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I, me (formal male first-person pronoun)

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw' — My, mine (formal male possessive pronoun)

ဟောင်းနွမ်း

houn-nwun — Old, worn out, shabby, dilapidated

တဲ့

teh — Quotative or relativizing particle, indicates reported speech

အဝတ်အစား

a-wut-a-sa — Clothing, clothes, garments, attire

တွေ

twe — Plural marker for nouns; those, them

နဲ့

neh — And, with, together with (conjunction/particle)

သကြား

tha-kja — Sugar, sweet granular food substance

ပုံး

poun — Container, tin, can, box, cylinder

ထဲ

hteh — Inside, within, in (locative particle)

ပြန်

pyan — To return, go back; again, reverse direction

ဝင်

win — To enter, go in, join, participate

လိုက်

lite — To follow, accompany; directional verb particle

တော့

taw — Now, then, at this point (discourse particle)

လွတ်လပ်

lwut-lut — Free, independent, liberated, unrestrained

ပြီး

pyi — After, finished, done, completed (aspect marker)

နှစ်သက်

hnit-thet — To like, enjoy, be fond of something

မှု

hmu — Abstract nominalizer suffix; case, matter, affair

ရှိ

shi — To exist, have, be present somewhere

တယ်။

teh. — Sentence-final declarative particle (present/simple tense)

ဒါပေမယ့်

da-pe-meh — However, but, nevertheless, even so

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from (source marker)

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to, toward (direction)

ရှာဖွေ

sha-phwe — To search, look for, seek, investigate

တွေ့

twe' — To find, meet, encounter, come across

ဓားပြ

da-pya — Robber, bandit, mugger, armed thief

အဖွဲ့

a-phwe' — Group, organization, team, association

တစ်ဖွဲ့

tit-phwe' — A group, one group, a band or gang

စတင်

sa-tin — To start, begin, commence an activity

ဖွဲ့စည်း

phwe'-si — To form, organize, establish a group

မယ်

meh — Future tense marker; will, going to do

လို့

lo' — Because, so, quotative particle for clauses

ပြော

pyaw — To say, speak, tell, talk about

တယ်၊

teh, — Declarative sentence particle (with comma pause)

မုတ်ဆိုးမ

moot-so-ma — Widow, a woman whose husband has died

ဆီ

si — Oil, fat; toward, in the direction of

သွား

thwa — To go, to leave; directional verb particle

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာ

gon-thit-kha — Dignity, honor, prestige, respectability

ရင်

yin — If, when, chest; conditional clause marker

ပါဝင်

pa-win — To participate, be included, take part

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, receive; can, be able

တယ်

teh — Declarative sentence-final particle (present tense)

ဆို

so — To say, sing; conditional or quotative marker

ဒါကြောင့်

da-kjoun' — Therefore, because of that, for that reason

အတွက်

a-twet — For, for the sake of, on behalf of

ငို

ngo — To cry, weep, sob, shed tears

ကြွေး

kwe — Debt, obligation owed; to owe someone

သနားဖွယ်

tha-na-phwe — Pitiful, deserving sympathy, pathetic, pitiable

ကောင်းတဲ့

kaun-teh — Good, which is good, that is nice

လမ်းပျောက်

lan-pyout — Lost, having lost one's way, gone astray

သိုး

tho — Sheep, a woolly domesticated farm animal

ကလေး

ka-le — Child, kid, baby, young person

ခေါ်

khaw — To call, summon, name, invite someone

နာမည်

na-meh — Name, title, given name of a person

အမျိုးမျိုး

a-myo-myo — Various kinds, all sorts, many types

လည်း

leh — Also, too, as well, even (additive particle)

သေး

the — Still, yet; small; sentence-final softening particle

သူမ

thu-ma — She, her (third-person female pronoun)

ဒါ

da — This, that, it (demonstrative pronoun)

မကောင်းဆိုးဝါး

ma-kaun-so-wa — Evil, wicked, villainous, morally bad

သဘော

tha-baw — Meaning, sense, nature, attitude, intention

မ

ma — Negation prefix; no, not (negative marker)

တာ

ta — Nominalizer or soft declarative sentence particle

သိ

thi — To know, be aware of, understand something

အသစ်အဆန်း

a-thit-a-hsan — New and novel, something fresh and unusual

တဖန်

ta-hpan — Again, once more, on another occasion

ဝတ်ဆင်

wut-hsin — To wear, put on, dress in clothing

စေ

se — To cause, let, make someone do something

ချွေး

chwe — Sweat, perspiration from the body

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely; comparative particle, better

ထွက်

htwet — To come out, exit, go out, emerge

ရင်း

yin — While doing, by means of; source, origin

ကျပ်တည်း

kjut-ti — Difficult, tight, hard up, in hardship

နေ

ne — To stay, live, reside; progressive aspect marker

ခံစားချက်

khan-sa-chet — Feeling, emotion, sensation, subjective experience

မှ

hma — From, since, only then (emphatic particle)

လွဲ

lwe — To miss, be wrong, deviate, be mistaken

ဘာ

ba — What, something, anything (interrogative pronoun)

လုပ်

lut — To do, make, perform, carry out

ဘူး။

bu. — Negative past or emphatic negation particle

ကဲ၊

ke, — Well, okay, come on (discourse interjection)

ဒီတော့

di-daw — So, therefore, in that case, well then

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, matter, object, item, something

စ

sa — To begin, start; initial, first (prefix)

ညစာ

nya-za — Dinner, evening meal, supper

စားချိန်

sa-chein — Mealtime, time to eat, dining time

ခေါင်းလောင်း

kaun-laun — Bell, a ringing bell or chime instrument

တီး

ti — To ring, strike, play an instrument

သတ်မှတ်

thut-hmut — To determine, set, define, designate officially

ချိန်

chein — Time, moment, period; to aim, weigh

မှာ

hma — At, in, on (locative particle); to order

လာ

la — To come; directional verb particle (coming toward)

မယ်။

meh. — Future tense sentence-final particle (will do)

စားပွဲ

sa-bwe — Dining table, dinner table, eating table

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, reach, get to a place

အခါ

a-kha — Time, occasion, when, at the time of

ချက်ချင်း

chet-chin — Immediately, right away, at once, instantly

စား

sa — To eat, consume food or a meal

ဘဲ

beh — Without doing, instead, just like that (particle)

ခေါင်း

kaun — Head, the top part of the body

ငုံ့

ngoun' — To bow down, lower one's head, bend

အစားအသောက်

a-sa-a-thout — Food and drink, cuisine, nourishment

ရွတ်ဆို

ywut-so — To recite, chant, read aloud, recite prayers

တောင်းဆု

taun-su — To pray, offer a prayer, make a wish

သည်

thi — Formal definite article or subject particle

စောင့်

saun' — To wait, guard, watch over, keep watch

တကယ်တော့

ta-kjeh-daw — Actually, in reality, as a matter of fact

ဆိုး

so — Bad, evil, wicked, severe, terrible

ဘူး၊

bu, — Negative sentence-final particle (with pause)

ဆိုချင်

so-chin — To want to say, mean to express

မည်သည့်

myi-thi' — Whichever, whatever, any (formal relative pronoun)

သီးသန့်

thi-than' — Separate, exclusive, private, reserved, distinct

စီ

si — Each, respectively, individually, in order

ချက်ပြုတ်

chet-pyout — To cook, prepare food by cooking

ထား

hta — To place, put, keep; resultative verb particle

ပဲ

peh — Only, just, indeed (emphatic limiting particle)

ဆိုတဲ့

so-teh — Called, named, which is said to be

ကိစ္စ

keit-sa — Matter, issue, affair, problem, concern

တော့။

daw. — Discourse particle marking conclusion or transition

သော

thaw — Formal relative clause particle (literary that/which)

အရာဝတ္တု

a-ya-wut-tu — Object, physical item, material thing, article

များ

mya — Many, much, plural marker; more, a lot

စည်

si — Drum; container, tin; to be prosperous

တစ်လုံး

tit-lone — One piece, one item, one unit of something

ကွာခြား

kwa-cha — To differ, be different, distinguish from another

ရောနှော

yaw-hnaw — To mix, blend, mingle together

အရည်

a-yeh — Liquid, fluid, juice, a drinkable substance

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyaun-leh — To change, transform, alter, shift, vary

ကူးစက်

ku-set — To infect, spread disease, be contagious

ကာ

ka — While, as; to protect, defend; duration particle

ပို

po — More, even more, increasingly, comparative adverb

ကောင်း

kaun — Good, nice, fine, well, excellent