Coniston — Volume 01 — Page 7

Vocabulary

သူမ

thu ma — She; third-person singular feminine pronoun

ထိုအကြောင်းကို

hto a-kyaung go — About that matter; regarding that topic

တွေးမိသောအခါ

tway mi thaw a-hka — When (one) happens to think about it

၏

e — Possessive particle; of, belonging to

မျက်နှာတွင်

myat hna dwin — On the face; in the facial expression

ကြမ်းတမ်းသော

kyam tan thaw — Rough, harsh, or fierce in manner

အာနုဘော်

a-nu-baw — Power, authority, or commanding presence

တစ်ခု

tit hku — One; a single (thing or unit)

ရှိနေသည်

shi nay dhi — There is; exists; is present continuously

အထူးသဖြင့်

a-htu tha-hpyin — Especially; particularly; in a special manner

သူသည်

thu dhi — He; third-person masculine subject marker

ဦးထုပ်ကို

u-htok go — Hat; referring to a hat as object

ချွတ်လိုက်သော

chwut like thaw — Having removed or taken off (clothing/hat)

အခါတွင်

a-hka dwin — At the time when; on the occasion of

ထင်ရှားသည်

htin sha dhi — Is obvious; is prominent; stands out clearly

သူမသည်

thu ma dhi — She (subject); feminine third-person subject

သားရေဆေးရုံ

tha yay say yon — Tannery; place for processing animal hides

ဝင်းထဲတွင်

win htay dwin — Inside the compound or enclosed yard

ဖြစ်စေ

hpyit say — Whether; either; causing something to happen

လမ်းပေါ်တွင်

lan paw dwin — On the road; along the street or path

သူ့ကို

thu go — Him; him as the object of an action

တွေ့သော

tway thaw — Having met or encountered (someone or something)

အခါတိုင်း

a-hka tine — Every time; whenever; each occasion

ခေါင်းညိတ်ကာ

gaung nyit ka — Nodding the head; while nodding in greeting

နှုတ်ဆက်

hnot set — To greet; to say hello; a greeting gesture

လေ့ရှိသည်

lay shi dhi — Is accustomed to; has a habit of doing

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

tit hka tit yan — Sometimes; occasionally; once in a while

သူလည်း

thu leh — He also; he too; as for him likewise

ပြန်ညိတ်သော်လည်း

pyan nyit thaw leh — Although he nodded back in return

မကြာခဏ

ma kya hka na — Often; frequently; many times

သူမကို

thu ma go — Her; her as the object of an action

မမြင်ဟန်

ma myin han — Pretending not to see; as if not noticing

ဆောင်တတ်သည်

saung tat dhi — Tends to act; usually behaves in that way

ထို

hto — That; those; indicating something previously mentioned

ခေါင်းမညိတ်ခြင်းကို

gaung ma nyit chin go — The act of not nodding one's head

မိုက်မဲမှုဟု

mike may hmu hlu — As foolishness; rudeness or stupidity (quoted)

ထင်မှတ်ခဲ့သော်လည်း

htin hmat khay thaw leh — Although (she) had thought or assumed so

ဆုံးဆဲဆုံး

zone zay zone — In the end; ultimately; after all is said

၎င်းသည်

din dhi — It; that aforementioned thing (formal reference)

တွေဝေနေခြင်းသာ

tway way nay chin tha — It is merely being absent-minded or distracted

ဖြစ်ကောင်း

hpyit kaung — Might be; could possibly be (conjecture)

ဖြစ်မည်

hpyit myi — Will be; must be; probably is the case

သူ့တွင်

thu dwin — In him; within him; he possesses (something)

စွမ်းရည်

swan yay — Ability, capability, or talent; skill

ရှိသည်ဟု

shi dhi hlu — That (he) has; quoted assertion of possession

သင်

thin — You; second-person pronoun (formal or neutral)

ထင်ရသည့်

htin ya dhi — Which (you) think or believe to be so

အကြောင်းရင်းကား

a-kyaung yin ka — The reason is; the cause being (explanatory)

အဘယ်နည်း

a-beh nay — What is it; for what reason; why so

ဟု

hlu — Quotative particle; said, thought, or so-called

လက်ထဲ

let htay — In the hand; inside one's hand or grasp

ကိုင်ထားသော

kine hta thaw — Holding; being held in one's hand already

ပန်းစုမှ

pan zu hma — From the bunch of flowers; from the bouquet

ပန်းများကို

pan mya go — The flowers; flowers as the object of action

ခူးရင်း

ku yin — While picking or plucking (flowers or fruits)

မေးလိုက်သည်

may like dhi — Asked; posed a question to someone

တစ်ချက်မှာ

tit chet hma — On one occasion; at one point in time

သူဌေးကြီးပဲ

thu htay ji beh — It's just the big boss; the wealthy employer indeed

က

ga — Subject marker particle; indicates the doer

ပြောသည်

pyaw dhi — Says; speaks; utters something to someone

အကြောင်း

a-kyaung — About; concerning; reason or subject matter

ရှည်လျားစွာ

shay lya zwa — At length; extensively; in a long manner

ဆွေးနွေးရန်

thway nway yan — To discuss; to deliberate or converse about

ရည်ရွယ်

yay yweh — To intend; to aim for; to have a purpose

မထားသော်လည်း

ma hta thaw leh — Although not intending; even though not planned

မိမိ၏

mi mi e — One's own; belonging to oneself (reflexive)

ထုတ်ဖော်

htok hpaw — To reveal; to express; to disclose openly

ပြောဆိုမှုများကို

pyaw so hmu mya go — The statements or utterances made by someone

ကာကွယ်ရမည်ဟု

ka kweh ya myi hlu — That (one) must defend or protect (it)

တာဝန်

ta-wun — Responsibility; duty; obligation to do something

ခံစားရသည်

khan za ya dhi — Feels; experiences; perceives an emotion or duty

သူဌေးကြီး

thu htay ji — The wealthy boss; the big employer or landlord

လားဟ

la hah — Really? Is that so? (surprised question particle)

ဟုတ်ပါတယ်

hote pa deh — Yes, that's right; it is indeed so

သူ

thu — He; him; third-person singular pronoun

ဆင်းရဲတာ

sin yay ta — Being poor; poverty; in a poor condition

မဟုတ်ဘူး

ma hote bu — Is not; that is not the case at all

သူ့မှာ

thu hma — He has; at his place; in his possession

တောင်သူ

taung thu — Farmer; peasant; one who works the land

လယ်သမားများ

leh tha ma mya — Farmers; agriculturalists; rice field cultivators

အကြား

a-kya — Among; between; in the middle of (people/things)

နှောင်ငွေ

hnawng ngway — Loan money; debt; borrowed financial amount

သုံးဆယ်

thone zeh — Thirty; the number thirty

လောက်အထိ

lout a-hti — As much as; up to a certain amount

ရှိသည်

shi dhi — There is; has; exists; is present

အချို့မှာ

a-cho hma — In some (cases); some of them have

မြေပေါ်တွင်

myay paw dwin — On the land; on the ground or soil

မွေးမြူရေး

mway myu yay — Animal husbandry; livestock raising or breeding

တိရစ္ဆာန်

ti-yet-san — Animal; livestock; a creature or beast

ပေါ်တွင်

paw dwin — On; upon; on top of (something)

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit dhi — Is; it is; to be (copula verb)

ငွေကို

ngway go — Money; money as the object of an action

မည်သို့

myi dho — How; in what manner; by what means

ရှာဖွေ

sha hpway — To search for; to seek; to look for

သနည်း

tha nay — Question particle; how does one do it?

သည်

dhi — Subject/topic marker; also present tense indicator

အံ့အားသင့်ကာ

an a thin ka — Being surprised and astonished; with amazement

တောင်းဆိုလိုက်သည်

taung zo like dhi — Requested; demanded; asked for something

သားရေ

tha yay — Leather; animal hide; tanned skin material

နဲ့

neh — And; with; together with (informal connector)

သိုးမွှေး

tho hmway — Wool; sheep's fleece or woolen fiber

အခေါက်

a-khout — Bark; rind; outer layer of tree or plant

လှည့်ကာ

hlyay ka — Turning around; while turning or rotating

မြတ်နိုး

myat no — To cherish; to love dearly; to treasure

စုစေ

zu say — Causing to collect; gathering or accumulating things

ခဲ့တယ်

khay deh — Did (past tense marker); indicates completed action

တင်ပို့မှု

tin po hmu — Export; shipping; act of sending goods out

ရသော

ya thaw — Which is obtained; that is received or gotten

အခါ

a-hka — Time; occasion; when; at the time of

မြင်း

myin — Horse; a domesticated equine animal

ခြောက်ကောင်

chauk kaung — Six animals; a count of six creatures

အဖွဲ့

a-hpweh — Group; team; an organized body of people

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by means of; using (instrumental particle)

သို့

dho — To; toward; in the direction of (destination)

မောင်းနှင်

maung hnin — To drive; to steer; to operate a vehicle

သွားသည်

thwa dhi — Goes; went; to go somewhere or proceed

မူးယစ်

mu yit — Intoxicated; drunk; under influence of substance

သော်လည်း

thaw leh — Although; even though; however; concessive connector

သတိ

tha ti — Awareness; mindfulness; caution; being careful

ရှိရှိ

shi shi — With care; attentively; cautiously; with awareness

နေကာ

nay ka — While staying; continuing to be; remaining so

ငွေ

ngway — Money; silver; currency; financial resources

သိုလှောင်

tho hlaung — To store; to hoard; to accumulate and keep

သူ၏

thu e — His; belonging to him (possessive form)

သစ်သား

thit tha — Wood; timber; wooden material or lumber

သံချောင်းများ

than chaung mya — Iron bars; metal rods or iron pieces

ထုကြဲ

htu kyay — To throw or fling in bulk; scatter forcefully

စ

sa — To start; to begin; commencing an action

ပြုလေသည်

pyu lay dhi — Proceeded to do; performed or carried out (action)

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kyaung hma — The reason is; the matter concerning it is

နေ့ရက်များတွင်

nay yet mya dwin — In those days; during those days or times

ရှားပါး

sha pa — Rare; scarce; not easily found or obtained

သောကြောင့်

thaw kyaung — Because of; therefore; for that reason

ဆက်ကာ

set ka — Continuing; while continuing; proceeding further

နေသေးသည်

nay thay dhi — Still is; continues to be; remains in state

ငန်းများ

ngan mya — Geese; plural of goose (waterfowl birds)

ဆိုသည်မှာ

so dhi hma — As for what is said; what it means is

မည်သည့်

myi dhi — Which; whatever; any particular (interrogative/relative)

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a-di-pyay — Meaning; significance; definition of a word

ပြောသနည်း

pyaw tha nay — What does (it) mean; what is being said

ခဏကြာသော

khana kya thaw — Brief; lasting only a short moment or while

ပြောလိုက်သည်

pyaw like dhi — Said; spoke; uttered (a completed speech act)

ရယ်လိုက်သည်

yeh like dhi — Laughed; let out a laugh (completed action)

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (formal connector)

မဆိုင်

ma saing — Not related to; not concerning; irrelevant to

တစ်ဦး

tit u — One person; a single individual (formal counter)

နိုင်ငံရေး

naing ngan yay — Politics; political affairs or matters of state

အရ

a-ya — According to; based on; in accordance with

ဗိုလ်ချုပ်

bo-joke — General; a high-ranking military commander

ကို

go — Object marker particle; marks the direct object

လေးစား

lay za — To respect; to esteem; to hold in regard

ကြည်ညိုသည်

kyi nyo dhi — To admire; to revere; to feel deep respect

နောက်ထပ်

nout htut — Another; additional; one more; furthermore

ကော်မတီ

kaw-ma-ti — Committee; an organized group for decision-making

ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ

uk-ka-hta — Chairman; president of a committee or organization

ဆိုလျှင်

so hlyin — If (one) says; if that is the case then

ပြောမည်

pyaw myi — Will say; will speak; intends to tell

နည်း

nay — Way; method; how; interrogative question particle