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Vocabulary

ပုံ

pone — Picture, image, or shape

အော်

aw — To shout or cry out loudly

ဆရာ

hsaya — Teacher or respected master

ခင်ဗျား

khamyar — You (polite, formal second-person pronoun)

ဟာ

ha — Thing; also used as topic marker particle

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, become, or happen

နိုင်

naing — To be able to; can; to win

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence particle; also 'to come along'

လား

la — Question particle expecting yes/no answer

ရေးသား

yay-tha — To write or compose literary work

သူ

thu — He, she, or that person (third person)

လက်ဖက်ရည်

la-hpet-yay — Tea (the beverage)

လောင်း

laung — To pour liquid onto something

နေ

nay — To stay, live; also 'sun' or continuative particle

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle (who, which, that)

အမျိုးသမီး

a-myoh-thamee — Woman or female person

၏

e — Possessive or genitive particle (of, 's)

အရောင်

a-yaung — Color or hue

ခြယ်

chay — To color, dye, or paint something

ပုံဆွဲ

pone-hswe — To draw a picture or sketch

နှစ်ဆယ့်

hnit-hsay — Twenty (prefix used before single digits)

ငါး

nga — Five; also the word for fish

ခု

khu — Counter for general objects; now (this moment)

နှင့်

hnint — And; with; together with (conjunction/preposition)

တကွ

ta-kwe — Together with; along with

စီ

si — Each; respectively; in order

ရေးဆွဲ

yay-hswe — To draw or draft a design

သည်

thi — Present tense or topic marker particle

အလှဆင်

a-la-hsin — To decorate or adorn beautifully

ပုံပန်း

pone-pan — Form, design, or decorative pattern

ဆင်ယင်

hsin-yin — To adorn, dress up, or embellish

မှု

hmu — Nominalization suffix indicating action or matter

လန်ဒန်

Landon — London (capital city of England, transliteration)

ကုမ္ပဏီ

kumphani — Company or business organization

ယောက်

yout — Male person counter or suffix

မာတိကာ

matika — Table of contents or index

အခန်း

a-khan — Chapter or room

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kyawnote — We or us (first person plural, formal)

လူ့

lu — Of people; human (possessive/attributive form)

အဖွဲ့အစည်း

a-hpwe-a-si — Organization, group, or association

စစ်သူကြီး

sit-thu-ji — Military general or high-ranking officer

နှစ်ပေါင်း

hnit-paung — Total number of years combined

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many, a great number, or much

ကြာမြင့်

kja-myint — To be long in duration; for a long time

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker indicating completed action

ချစ်ခြင်း

chit-chin — Love or affection (noun form)

မေတ္တာ

mayta — Loving-kindness or benevolent love

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat-lan — Story, plot, or narrative

အိမ်မထောင်

ain-ma-htaung — Unmarried; single (not yet married)

သည့်

thint — Relative clause particle (which/that, past reference)

သက်ကြီး

thet-ji — Elderly; old in age

ရွယ်အို

ywe-o — Old age; elderly stage of life

တစ်ဦး

ta-u — One person (counter for people)

ထံ

htan — To, toward (a person); in someone's presence

သွားရောက်

thwa-yout — To go and visit a place or person

လည်ပတ်

le-pat — To visit or travel around; to tour

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix for verbs and adjectives

စာ

sa — Letter, writing, or text

ဟောင်း

haung — Old, worn, or outdated

များ

mya — Plural marker; many or several

ဆင်းရဲ

hsin-ye — Poor or impoverished; poverty

မိဒုနင်္တ

midunanta — Midnight or middle of the night

ဘုရား

phaya — God, Buddha, or a revered religious figure

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, or feeling

လန့်

lan — To be startled or frightened suddenly

တကြား

ta-kja — Intensely; extremely (intensifying adverb)

ထိတ်လန့်

hteit-lan — To be terrified or greatly startled

လက်ထပ်

let-htat — To marry or get married

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

စေ့စပ်

se-pat — To be engaged; to arrange a marriage

ငွေ

ngwe — Money or silver

ပေးချေ

pay-chay — To pay money for something

ရပ်တန့်

yat-tan — To stop or come to a halt

အကူအညီ

a-ku-a-nyi — Help, assistance, or support

လိုအပ်

lo-at — To need or require something

အချိန်

a-chein — Time or a period of time

တွင်

twint — In, at, or within (locative particle)

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit-hswe — Friend or close acquaintance

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw-shwin — To be happy, joyful, or delighted

ဖွယ်ရာ

hpwe-ya — Worthy of; deserving of (suffix particle)

ပြန်

pyan — To return; back; again (reversal particle)

လာ

la — To come; directional particle toward speaker

သို့

thoe — To, toward (directional particle)

ငြိမ်းချမ်း

nyein-chan — Peace or tranquility

ရေး

yay — To write; also relating to (suffix)

စာရင်း

sa-yin — List, account, or record

အိမ်တွင်းသုံး

ain-twint-thone — Household use; for domestic purposes

နီညို

ni-nyo — Crimson or deep red color

ရောင်

yaung — Color or hue (general term)

ပိုးထည်

po-ti — Silk fabric or silk cloth

ထီးကြီး

hti-ji — Large umbrella or parasol

တစ်

ta — One (number); a/an (indefinite article equivalent)

ချောင်း

chaung — A long thin object counter; stream or creek

နူးညံ့

nu-nyan — Gentle, soft, or tender in manner

သိမ်မွေ့

thein-mwe — Delicate, refined, or subtle

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning 'in a ... manner'

မိမိ

mimi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun (one's own)

မွေးကျင်း

mway-jin — Birthplace or place of upbringing

သွား

thwa — To go; also a tooth

သူမ

thu-ma — She or her (feminine third person pronoun)

အား

a — Object marker particle; strength or power

စကား

za-ga — Word, speech, or language

ပြောဆို

pyaw-hsoe — To speak or say; to converse

ဖိတ်

hpait — To invite someone to come or attend

ဆောင်

hsaung — To carry or bring; to fulfill

ကြိုးပမ်း

kjo-pan — To try hard or make an effort

လှည်းသမား

hle-thama — Carriage driver or coachman

ကို

ko — Object marker particle (direct object)

ဧည့်ခန်းမ

e-khan-ma — Drawing room or reception hall

ထဲ

hte — Inside or within (locative particle)

ခေါ်ဆောင်

khaw-hsaung — To lead or escort someone somewhere

လက်မောင်း

let-maung — Arm or sleeve

ဖက်

hpet — To hold or embrace; to hug

ထား

hta — To place or keep; perfective aspect marker

လျက်

lyet — While doing; simultaneous action particle

မစ္စတာ

Missta — Mister (Mr.), male honorific title

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from (source particle)

နှုတ်ဆက်

hnout-hset — To greet or say farewell to someone

အခု

a-khu — Now or at this moment

မတ်လ

Mat-la — March (the month of the year)

အိုးချို

o-cho — Flower pot or garden pot

မှာ

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

မည်သည့်

myi-thint — Which; whichever; any (interrogative adjective)

ရှိ

shi — To exist, be present, or have

နည်း

ne — Method, way; also 'few' or 'little'

ကျွန်ုပ်

kyawnoe — I or me (first person singular, formal)

ထို

htoe — That (demonstrative pronoun, distant reference)

အခြား

a-cha — Other, another, or different

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, matter, or object

အကြောင်း

a-kjong — Reason, cause, or subject matter

တွေးဆ

tway-hsa — To think, ponder, or consider

အသုံးချ

a-thone-cha — To use or make use of something

မိန်းမ

mein-ma — Woman or wife

ပစ်ပယ်

peit-pe — To discard, reject, or abandon

လိုက်

lait — To follow; directional/aspectual verb particle

သက်တောင့်

thet-taung — Comfortable or at ease

သက်သာ

thet-tha — Comfortable, affordable, or relieved

လက်တင်

let-tin — Armrest of a chair or sofa

ကုလားထိုင်

kala-htaing — Chair or seat to sit on

စဆောင်

sa-hsaung — To begin carrying out or commence

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; regarding

မခံနိုင်

ma-khan-naing — Unable to bear or tolerate something

လောက်အောင်

lout-aung — Enough to; to the extent that

ပြင်းထန်

pyin-htan — Intense, severe, or strong

လွန်း

lun — Too much; excessively (intensifier suffix)

သစ်သီး

thit-thi — Fruit or tree fruit

ဂျယ်လီ

Jeli — Jelly (sweet preserved fruit spread)

ဇွန်း

zwun — Spoon (eating utensil)

ပေး

pay — To give or provide something to someone

အိမ်ထောင်

ain-htaung — Family household; married couple unit

သတင်း

tha-din — News or information

ကြောက်ရွံ့

kjout-ywan — To be afraid or scared of something

ဂရုစိုက်

ga-yu-sait — To care about or pay attention to

သူ့

thu — His or her (possessive third person form)

တောင်းဆို

taung-hsoe — To demand, request, or claim something

သတ်ဖြတ်

thet-hpyat — To kill or slaughter

ခွဲခြား

khwe-cha — To separate, distinguish, or discriminate

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist; absent; without

ညွှန်ကြားချက်

hnwan-kja-chet — Instruction, directive, or order given

သူတို့

thu-doe — They or them (third person plural)

သေးငယ်

thay-ngae — Small, tiny, or little in size

ဆန့်ကျင်

hsan-jin — To oppose, resist, or go against

ပြ

pya — To show or demonstrate something

လိမ့်

lain — Will (future probability particle)

မည်

myi — Will, shall (future tense marker)

ဘာ

ba — What (interrogative pronoun)

ထင်

htin — To think, believe, or appear to be

လဲ

le — Question particle; also 'to exchange'