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Vocabulary

၏

i — Possessive or linking particle in formal writing

ဖော်ပြချက်

hpaw-pya-jɛʔ — A description or explanatory statement

အဆုံးသတ်

a-hsone-thaʔ — Ending, conclusion, or termination of something

နိဒါန်း

nei-dan — Introduction or preface of a text

တရားသူကြီး

taya-thu-ji — A judge presiding over a court of law

တစ်ဦး

tiʔ-u — One person, a single individual

သည်

thi — Topic marker or present-tense verb particle

တစ်ချိန်က

tiʔ-chain-ga — At one time, once upon a time, formerly

ရူးသွပ်မှု

yu-thuʔ-hmu — Madness, insanity, or state of being crazy

သံသယ

thantha-ya — Doubt, suspicion, or uncertainty about something

မှ

hma — From, since; source or starting-point marker

လွတ်ကင်းသော

lwaʔ-kin-dho — Free from, exempt, or clear of something

လူပေါင်း

lu-poun — A combined number of people, total persons

တစ်ရာ

tiʔ-ya — One hundred, the number 100

ငါးဆယ်

nga-hsɛ — Fifty, the number 50

ခန့်

khan — Approximately, about, roughly (estimating quantity)

ပါဝင်

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

သည့်

thi — Relative clause marker linking modifier to noun

အဖွဲ့

a-hpwɛ — A group, organization, or team of people

တစ်ဖွဲ့

tiʔ-hpwɛ — One group or a single team

အနေဖြင့်

a-ne-hpyin — In the capacity of, as, in terms of

ကျွန်တော့်

kjɛ-naw — My (possessive form, male first-person formal)

ကို

go — Object marker, indicating direct object of verb

ကျေးဇူးပြု

kjè-zu-pyu — To please do, kindly do (polite request)

၍

ywe — And so, therefore; connective literary particle

အသိပေး

a-thi-pe — To inform, notify, or let someone know

ရာ

ya — Nominalizing suffix or general classifier particle

တရားရုံး

taya-yone — A court of law, courthouse, legal tribunal

လူထု

lu-htu — The public, the masses, general population

ကြား

ja — Between, among; or to hear something

တွင်

twin — In, at, within (location marker)

ကြီးမားသော

ji-ma-dho — Great, large, immense, of significant magnitude

ဘက်လိုက်မှု

bɛʔ-laiʔ-hmu — Bias, partiality, taking sides unfairly

များ

mya — Many, plural marker, or more in quantity

တောက်ပသော

tauʔ-pa-dho — Bright, brilliant, shining, or radiant

အကြောင်းအရာ

a-kjoun-a-ya — Subject matter, topic, content of discussion

ဖြစ်သော်

hpjiʔ-thaw — Although it is, even though it may be

လည်း

lɛ — Also, too, as well; additive particle

ထို

hto — That, those (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)

အချက်

a-chɛʔ — A point, fact, or key detail

မျက်လုံး

mjɛʔ-lone — Eye, the organ of sight

ဘက်

bɛʔ — Side, direction, or party in a matter

သို့

hto — To, toward (directional particle)

ငဲ့ကြည့်

ngɛ-kji — To glance toward, look in a direction

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

ထင်ခဲ့

htin-gɛ — Thought, believed, or considered (past tense)

နီးပါး

ni-ba — Nearly, almost, approximately close to

ဆုတ်ကပ်

hsuʔ-gaʔ — To draw close, approach, move nearer

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix turning verb into noun form

မရှိ

ma-shi — There is not, does not exist, absent

ဆို

hso — To say, called, meaning (quotative verb)

တိုးတက်မှု

to-tɛʔ-hmu — Progress, advancement, improvement over time

နှုန်း

hnone — Rate, ratio, speed, or frequency measure

အနည်းငယ်

a-ni-ngɛ — A little, a small amount, slightly

အပြစ်အနာအဆာ

a-pjiʔ-a-na-a-hsa — Faults, blemishes, and imperfections altogether

ရှိ

shi — To exist, have, there is/are

ခဲ့

gɛ — Past tense auxiliary indicating completed action

သူ

thu — He, she, that person (third-person pronoun)

ဝန်ခံ

wun-khan — To admit, confess, or acknowledge something

သော်

thaw — Although, even though; concessive conjunction

၎င်း

dei-jin — It, he/she/they (formal pronoun referring back)

ကြီးကြီးကျယ်ကျယ်

ji-ji-kjɛ-kjɛ — Greatly, extensively, on a large scale

ချဲ့ကား

chɛ-ka — To exaggerate, enlarge, or expand upon something

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpjiʔ-bji — Having become, being the case, and so

လုံးဝ

lone-wɔ — Completely, absolutely, entirely, not at all

ပြည်သူ

pji-thu — The people, citizens, the public of a nation

ချွေတာရေး

chwè-ta-yè — Economy, frugality, austerity, saving resources

ကြောင့်

kjoun — Because of, due to, owing to (cause marker)

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely; emphatic limiting particle

ဖြစ်

hpjiʔ — To be, become, happen, or occur

ကြောင်း

kjoun — That (complementizer reporting facts or statements)

အပြစ်ရှိသော

a-pjiʔ-shi-dho — Guilty, blameworthy, having committed a fault

မကြာသေးမီ

ma-ja-the-mi — Recently, not long ago, in the near past

က

ga — Subject marker or agentive case particle

တိုင်အောင်

tain-aun — Until, up to the point of, as far as

အရေအတွက်

a-yɛ-a-twɛʔ — Number, quantity, count of items or people

တိုးမြှင့်

to-hmyin — To increase, raise, or boost something

ခန့်အပ်

khan-aʔ — To appoint, assign, or designate someone

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of (purposive)

ဒုတိယ

du-ti-ya — Second, the ordinal number two

မင်း

min — You (informal), or a lord/king

ကျွန်တော်

kjɛ-naw — I, me (polite male first-person pronoun)

ယုံကြည်

yone-ji — To believe, trust, have faith in

အခြား

a-cha — Other, another, different, else

တစ်ပါး

tiʔ-pa — Another (person), one other individual

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With, by means of, using (instrumental marker)

အလုပ်ဖြစ်

a-louʔ-hpjiʔ — To work out, function, or be effective

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence-final particle; also 'also'

မည်သည့်

mji-thi — Which, whichever, any (interrogative/relative)

နည်း

ni — Method, way, means; also 'few/little'

မျှ

hmja — As much as, equally, just (equative particle)

မပြုလုပ်

ma-pyu-louʔ — To not do, not perform, not carry out

အပြတ်အသတ်

a-pjaʔ-a-thaʔ — Decisively, conclusively, definitively, absolutely

ဆုံးဖြတ်

hsone-hpjaʔ — To decide, determine, make a resolution

ထား

hta — To place, keep; resultative/continuative auxiliary

ထင်

htin — To think, seem, appear, believe

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; ability or permission marker

ဤ

i — This (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

ဟာသ

ha-tha — Humor, comedy, a joke or comic element

အဖို့

a-hpo — For, for the sake of, as far as concerned

စာအုပ်

sa-ouʔ — A book, written volume, or publication

အဓိက

a-di-ga — Main, primary, principal, most important

ထည့်သွင်း

htɛ-thwin — To include, insert, or incorporate into something

အလွန်

a-lwun — Very, extremely, excessively, too much

နက်ရှိုင်း

nɛʔ-shain — Deep, profound, complex in meaning

လွန်းသော

lwun-dho — Too much, excessively, beyond a normal degree

စကားဝိုင်း

za-ga-wain — A conversation circle, discussion group, dialogue

သို့မဟုတ်

hto-ma-houʔ — Or, otherwise, alternatively

မစ္စတာ

miʔ-sa-ta — Mister, Mr., a title for a man

ထံ

htan — To, toward (a person); at someone's place

ပြန်လည်

pyan-lɛ — Back, again, returning to a previous state

ပေးအပ်

pe-aʔ — To hand over, deliver, or entrust to someone

ရမည်

ya-mji — Must get, will obtain, shall receive

နှစ်ဦး

hnit-u — Two people, both individuals, the two of them

အနက်

a-nɛʔ — Meaning, definition, interpretation of a word

တစ်ဦးဦး

tiʔ-u-u — Any one person, someone or other

မူလ

mu-la — Original, initial, fundamental, primary source

ဆင်းသက်

hsin-thɛʔ — To descend, derive from, originate from

လာ

la — To come; directional or tense auxiliary verb

ထင်မြင်

htin-myin — To think, believe, have an opinion about

ထိုသို့သော

hto-hto-dho — Such, of that kind, like that sort

ပါးစပ်

pa-zaʔ — Mouth, the oral part of the face

တစ်ပုဒ်

tiʔ-pouʔ — One piece (of writing, music, or poem)

သင့်လျော်သော

thin-ljaw-dho — Appropriate, suitable, fitting for a situation

ကိုးကားချက်

ko-ka-jɛʔ — A quotation, citation, or reference to source

တစ်ခု

tiʔ-khu — One thing, a single item or unit

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with (conjunctive particle)

တွဲဖက်

twɛ-bɛʔ — To pair with, associate, or combine together

နိုင်

nain — Can, be able to, capable of doing

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; or imperative softening particle

သဘောသဘာဝ

tha-baw-tha-ba-wɔ — Nature, character, inherent quality of something

နှိမ်ချ

hnain-cha — To belittle, demean, or look down upon

ပြီး

bji — After, finished, done; sequential connector

လက်

lɛʔ — Hand, arm; also a unit of measurement

ကဲ့သို့

gɛ-hto — Like, similar to, in the manner of

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, one's own (reflexive pronoun)

ဆောင်ရွက်

hsaun-ywɛʔ — To carry out, perform, or execute a task

အရာ

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

ရောက်ရှိ

yauʔ-shi — To arrive at, reach, be present at

သော

dho — Relative clause marker, adjectival particle

ဆိုလျှင်

hso-lyin — If one says, meaning, in other words

သနား

tha-na — To pity, feel compassion, feel sorry for

သစ်ဆန်း

thiʔ-hsan — Novel, new, fresh, innovative, original

လာစေ

la-ze — Cause to come, bring about, let come

ဆန္ဒပြု

sanda-pyu — To wish, desire, express a wish for