Coniston — Volume 01 — Page 6

Vocabulary

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — First-person pronoun; I, me (male speaker)

ယခု

ya-khu — Now, at this moment, currently

သူမကို

thu-ma-go — Her, to her (object form of she)

ပုံသဏ္ဍာန်၊

pon-than-dan — Shape, form, appearance, figure

ဦးထုပ်ဖြင့်

u-htoke-hpyin — With a hat, wearing a hat or bonnet

အရိပ်ကာသော

a-yit-ka-dho — That which shades or casts shade over

မျက်နှာကို

myat-hna-go — The face (as object of a verb)

တောက်ပစေသော

taut-pa-ze-dho — That which causes to shine or brighten

မီးခိုးရောင်

mi-kho-yaung — Smoke-grey color, grey shade

မျက်လုံးများ

myat-lone-myar — Eyes (plural form)

၎င်းကို

de-jin-go — It, that one (object pronoun, formal)

မြင်လိုက်သည်နှင့်

myin-lait-the-hnyit — As soon as one sees it

သင်

thin — You (second-person pronoun, formal)

တိမ်တိုက်များအထက်သို့

tein-tite-myar-a-htet-tho — Upward above the clouds

မြေခွေး

mye-khwe — Dog, earthly dog (common Burmese word for dog)

နှင့်

hnyit — And, with, together with (conjunction)

ငန်းတို့

ngan-do — Geese, wild geese (plural marker attached)

အကြောင်း

a-kyaung — About, concerning, reason, matter

ဘာများ

ba-myar — What things, whatever, what all

ဆိုချင်တာလဲ၊

so-chin-da-lè — What do you mean, what is meant

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; said, as stated (formal)

က

ga — Subject marker particle, indicating agent

ပြောသည်။

pyaw-the — Said, speaks, stated (verb of speech)

ပြောသည်၊

pyaw-the — Says, said (speech verb with comma pause)

သူသည်

thu-the — He, that person (subject form, formal)

စွမ်းရည်ကြောင့်

swun-ye-kyaung — Because of ability, due to capability or talent

အထူးခွင့်ရှိသူ

a-htu-khwin-shi-thu — A person with special privilege or exception

တစ်ဦး

tit-u — One person (numerical classifier for people)

ဖြစ်သည်။

phyit-the — Is, exists, becomes (copula verb, formal)

ငါ့စကားကို

nga-za-gar-go — My words, what I say (object form)

မှတ်ထား၊

hmat-htar — Remember, keep in mind, note this

ဆိုတာ

so-da — The thing called, what is said, meaning

ဒီမြို့က

di-myo-ga — From this town, this town's (people)

လူတွေ

lu-dwe — People, folks (plural, informal)

ထင်နေသည်ထက်

htin-ne-the-htet — More than what people think or assume

အများကြီး

a-myar-ji — A lot, much more, a great deal

ပိုတော်တယ်။

po-taw-dè — Is more capable, smarter, more skilled

မပြောတတ်ပဲ

ma-pyaw-tat-pè — Unable to speak well, not articulate

လူတွေက

lu-dwe-ga — People (subject marker), folks being the subject

သူ့ကို

thu-go — Him, to him (object pronoun form)

သတိမထားကြဘူး။

tha-di-ma-htar-gya-bu — Do not pay attention, don't notice him

သူ

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

ပညာတော်တော်

pyin-nya-taw-daw — Quite educated, fairly knowledgeable, decent learning

မသင်ဖူးပေမယ့်၊

ma-thin-phu-pe-mè — Even though has not formally studied much

တစ်ရက်ရက်မှာ

tit-yet-yet-hma — One day, someday in the future

ကမ္ဘာပေါ်မှာ

kum-ba-pau-hma — In the world, on earth, globally

နာမည်ကြီးလာမယ်ဆိုတာ

na-mè-ji-la-mè-so-da — That he will become famous, well-known

အာမခံပေးရဲတယ်။

a-ma-khan-pe-yè-dè — I dare to guarantee, can assure confidently

အော်ငိုသည်၊

aw-ngo-the — Cries out, exclaims with emotion or distress

သူမ၏

thu-ma-ye — Her, belonging to her (possessive form)

ကပြနေသည်၊

ga-pya-ne-the — Is performing, acting, putting on a show

မင်းထင်နေတာ

min-htin-ne-da — What you are thinking, your assumption

သမ္မတဖြစ်လာမယ်လို့

thum-ma-ta-phyit-la-mè-lo — That he will become president someday

ထင်တာပဲနော်။

htin-da-pè-naw — That is just what you think, right?

ကောင်းပြီ

kaung-byi — Fine, alright, okay then, very well

ရယ်ချင်ရယ်ပါ။

yè-chin-yè-ba — Go ahead and laugh if you want

နဲ့

nè — With, and (informal conjunction or postposition)

တစ်ခါမှ

tit-kha-hma — Never, not even once

စကားပြောဖူးလား?

za-gar-pyaw-phu-lar — Have you ever spoken with him?

ကျွန်မ

kyun-ma — I, me (first-person pronoun, female speaker)

သူ့နဲ့

thu-nè — With him, together with that person

တစ်သက်လုံးမှာ

tit-thet-lone-hma — In one's entire lifetime, throughout one's life

မပြောဖူးဘူး

ma-pyaw-phu-bu — Have never spoken, never talked before

သူမ

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

ဖြေသည်။

phye-the — Answers, replied, responded (to a question)

ထိုစကားမှာ

hto-za-gar-hma — In those words, regarding that statement

မှန်သည်၊

hman-the — Is correct, true, accurate, right

သင်းအုပ်ဆရာ၏

thin-oke-saya-ye — Belonging to the pastor or congregation leader

အဖြူရောင်

a-phyu-yaung — White color, white-colored

အိမ်ငယ်လေးသည်

ein-ngè-le-the — The small little house (subject form)

ဆိုင်အိမ်မှ

sain-ein-hma — From the shop or store building

နှစ်ရာ

hnit-ya — Two hundred (numerical expression)

ဟာ

ha — Exclamatory or emphatic particle, hey, oh

ဘယ်တော့မှ

bè-daw-hma — Never, at no time whatsoever

မဟုတ်ဘူး

ma-hote-bu — Is not, that is not the case

မှတ်ချက်ပြုသည်၊

hmat-chet-pyu-the — Makes a remark, comments, notes observation

၏

ye — Possessive particle; of, belonging to (formal)

နာမကျန်းသူများကို

na-ma-kyan-thu-myar-go — To the sick people, visiting the ill

အလေ့ကို

a-lè-go — Habit, custom, practice (as object)

ရည်ညွှန်းလျက်။

ye-hnwan-lyat — Referring to, alluding to, pointing toward

အသက်တစ်သက်မှာ

a-thet-tit-thet-hma — In one's entire lifetime, throughout life

မတူညီတဲ့

ma-tu-nyi-dè — Different, unlike, not the same (modifier)

လူပေါင်းများစွာကို

lu-paung-myar-zwa-go — Many various people (as object of verb)

တွေ့ဖူးတယ်၊

twe-phu-dè — Have met before, have encountered previously

မှာ

hma — At, in, on (locative particle); also imperative marker

မင်း

min — You (second-person informal pronoun)

မကြာခဏ

ma-kya-hka-na — Rarely, not often, infrequently

မတွေ့ရတတ်တဲ့

ma-twe-ya-tat-dè — Rarely encountered, not easily found or met

တစ်မျိုးသော

tit-myo-dho — A certain kind of, a particular type of

အာဏာ

a-na — Power, authority, influence, dominance

ရှိတယ်ဆိုတာ

shi-dè-so-da — The fact that he has, that there exists

ငါပြောရမယ်။

nga-pyaw-ya-mè — I must say, I have to tell you

သံသယမဝင်ကြဘူး။

than-tha-ya-ma-win-gya-bu — Have no doubt, nobody doubts it at all

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi-mi-ko-go — Oneself, one's own self (reflexive)

မထိန်းနိုင်ဘဲ၊

ma-htain-naing-bè — Unable to control or restrain oneself

သည်

the — Subject/topic marker particle (formal, written)

တည်ဆောက်သူ၏

ti-sout-thu-ye — Belonging to the builder, founder's (possessive)

အသံထဲမှ

a-than-htè-hma — From within the voice, from the sound

သစ္စာရှိမှုကို

thit-sa-shi-hmu-go — The faithfulness, loyalty, sincerity (as object)

ခံစားလိုက်ရသည်။

khan-zar-lait-ya-the — Feels, experiences, perceives emotionally