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Vocabulary

သင့်တွင်

thang. twing — In your possession; at your place

အနီရောင်

a-ni yaung — The color red

ပိုးထီးများ

po: hti: mya: — Silk umbrellas; plural of silk umbrella

ရှိပါသလား။

shi. ba tha-la: — Is there / do you have (polite question)?

တစ်ခါမှ

ta'-kha mha — Never; not even once

မမြင်ဖူးသော

ma-mying hpu: thau — Never seen before; never having witnessed

ပတ်သက်သည့်

pat-thek. thi. — Related to; concerning; regarding

ဒဏ္ဍာရီတစ်ခု

dan-da-yi ta'-khu — A legend; a traditional story or myth

ရှိခဲ့သည်။

shi. khè thi. — There was; existed (past tense)

ကလေးငယ်များက

ka-lè ngè mya: ga — The small children; young children (subject marker)

ဝိုင်းရံကာ

waing-yan ga — Surrounding; encircling while doing something

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle meaning 'saying' or 'called'

ခေါ်ဝေါ်ကြသည်။

khau wau kya thi. — Called; referred to by name collectively

ကျွန်မဖော်ပြခဲ့သော

kya-ma. hpau-pya khè thau — That I (female) had described or mentioned

ဖြစ်နိုင်သည်။

hpyit naing thi. — Could be; it is possible

ခွန်အားကြီးသော

khun-a: kyi: thau — Powerful; having great strength

ဖခင်တစ်ဦးက

hpa-khang ta'-u: ga — A father (subject marker); one particular father

ကိုင်ဆောင်ခဲ့သည်။

kaing-hsaung khè thi. — Held up; carried; bore (past tense)

အားလုံးတွင်

a:-loun twing — Among everyone; of all of them

တစ်ဦးတည်းကျန်ရစ်သော

ta'-u: tè kyan-yit thau — Who remained alone; the sole one left behind

ထိုနှလုံးသားကောင်းသော

hto hna-loun:-tha: kaung: thau — That kind-hearted one; the one with a good heart

အခက်ခဲဆုံး

a-khet-khè hsoun: — The most difficult; hardest of all

သယ်ဆောင်နိုင်ခဲ့သည်။

thè-hsaung naing khè thi. — Was able to carry; managed to transport

ထို့နောက်

hto. naut — After that; thereafter; next

လည်ပတ်ခြင်းနှင့်

lè-pat jing hnang. — With visiting around; with touring or going about

စည်းမျဉ်းစည်းကမ်းများ

si:-myin si:-kang mya: — Rules and regulations; set norms of conduct

မြို့တွင်

myо̤. twing — In the town; within the city

နေထိုင်နေသော

nè-htaing nè thau — Who is living; currently residing somewhere

လူငယ်မည်သူမဆို

lu-ngè myi-thu ma-hso — Any young person whatsoever; whoever is young

တစ်နှစ်တစ်ကြိမ်

ta'-hnit ta'-krim — Once a year; one time annually

ဖတ်ရွတ်ကြသည့်

hpat-ywut kya thi. — That are read aloud; which are recited publicly

အတိုင်း

a-taing: — According to; in accordance with; as per

သမာသမတ်ကျကျ

tha-ma-tha-mat kya-kya — Fairly; justly; in an impartial manner

ကြေညာပေးလေ့

kyè-nya pè lè. — Habitually announces; customarily proclaims publicly

ရှိသည်။

shi. thi. — There is; exists; has (statement of existence)

"ငါ့သူငယ်ချင်း၊

"nga. thu-ngè-jing: — My dear friend (informal address); my companion

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏မိတ်ဆွေများသည်

kya-noup to è meit-swè mya: thi. — Our friends (topic); as for our acquaintances

ယနေ့ညတွင်

ya-nè nya twing — Tonight; this very evening

သင်၏

thang è — Your; belonging to you (possessive)

ခရီးကြောင့်

kha-yi: kyaung. — Because of your journey; due to the trip

မြင်းရထားဖြင့်

mying-ya-hta: hpying. — By horse-drawn carriage; via horse and cart

မည်သို့

myi-hto — How; in what way; in what manner

ကျန်းမာပျော်ရွှင်နေကြောင်း

kyan:-ma pyau-shwing nè kyaung: — That they are well and happy; in good health

မေးမြန်းရန်

mè-myin yan — In order to inquire; for the purpose of asking

လူပို့ခဲ့သည်။

lu po. khè thi. — Sent a person; dispatched someone as messenger

မနက်ဖြန်

ma-net hpyan — Tomorrow; the coming morning

သင့်ကို

thang. go — You (object marker); directed toward you

အနားယူခွင့်ပေးမည်၊

a-na: yu. khwing pè myi. — Will allow you to rest; will grant time off

သို့သော်

hto-thau — However; but; nevertheless

နောက်တစ်နေ့

naut ta'-nè. — The next day; the following day

သူတို့

thu-to — They; them; those people

လာလည်မည်မှာ

la lè myi. hma — That they will come to visit; certain to visit

သံသယမရှိပါ။

thang-tha-ya ma-shi. ba. — There is no doubt; certainly without question

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto. kyaung. — Therefore; for that reason; so

နာရီဆယ့်နှစ်နာရီနောက်ပိုင်း

na-yi hsè-hnit na-yi naut-paing: — After twelve o'clock; from noon onward

အားလပ်နေပါ၊

a:-lat nè ba. — Please be free; be available and unoccupied

ဆယ့်နှစ်နာရီမှ

hsè-hnit na-yi hma — From twelve o'clock; starting at noon

သုံးနာရီသည်

thoun: na-yi thi. — Three o'clock (topic); as for three o'clock

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya-noup to — We; us; our group (inclusive first person plural)

ဧည့်ခံသည့်

è-khan thi. — That of receiving guests; for entertaining visitors

အချိန်ဖြစ်သည်။

a-chain hpyit thi. — Is the time; that is the appointed time

ထို့နောက်၊

hto. naut — After that; following that; then afterward

လာလည်ပြီးသောအခါ—

la lè pyi: thau a-kha— — When (they) have come to visit; after visiting

"ယနေ့သည်

"ya-nè thi. — Today (topic); as for today

သုံးရက်မြောက်နေ့ဖြစ်သည်။

thoun: yet myaut nè. hpyit thi. — It is the third day; the third day has arrived

သင်၏မိခင်သည်

thang è mi-khang thi. — Your mother (topic); as for your mother

ဤသို့ပြောမည်မှာ

i-hto pyau myi. hma — Will say this; is certain to say such things

သေချာသည်၊

thè-ja thi. — It is certain; it is sure; definitely so

ငါ့သူငယ်ချင်း၊

nga. thu-ngè-jing: — My dear friend; my close companion (informal)

ဧည့်သည်လာလည်ခြင်းကို

è-thi la-lè jing go — Visiting by guests (object); the act of visiting

လက်ခံပြီး

let-khan pyi: — Having accepted; after welcoming and receiving

ပြန်လည်လည်ပတ်ရန်

pyan-lè lè-pat yan — In order to pay a return visit; to visit back

သုံးရက်ထက်

thoun: yet htet — More than three days; exceeding three days

ပိုမကြာစေရ၊

po ma-kya sè ya — Must not last longer; should not be prolonged

နှင့်

hnang. — And; with; together with (conjunction/particle)

တစ်နာရီလေးပုံတစ်ပုံထက်

ta'-na-yi lè-boun ta'-boun htet — More than a quarter of an hour; exceeding fifteen minutes

ပိုမနေရ

po ma-nè ya — Must not stay longer; should not overstay

ဆိုခဲ့ပေမည်။"

hso khè pè myi." — Would have said; must have stated (past certainty)

"သို့သော်

"hto-thau — But; however; yet (contrastive conjunction)

ကျွန်မ

kya-ma. — I; me (first person pronoun, female speaker)

နာရီကြည့်ရမည်လား?

na-yi kyi. ya myi. la:? — Must I look at the clock? Should I check the time?

တစ်နာရီလေးပုံတစ်ပုံ

ta'-na-yi lè-boun ta'-boun — A quarter of an hour; fifteen minutes

ကုန်သွားကြောင်း

koun thwa: kyaung: — That it has passed; that time has elapsed

သိနိုင်မည်နည်း?

thi naing myi. nè:? — How would one know? How can it be known?