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Vocabulary

သူတို့သည်

thu-toh-thì — They (subject marker); third person plural subject

မြင့်သော

myin-thaw — High, tall, elevated in position or height

ဖိနပ်

hpa-hnàt — Shoes, footwear worn on the feet

များကို

myà-goh — Plural object marker; indicates multiple objects

စီးကာ

sì-ga — While wearing or riding; wearing (footwear)

ဘောင်းဘီ

baung-bì — Trousers, pants worn on the lower body

ထို

htoh — That, those; demonstrative pronoun pointing away

များ

myà — Plural marker; many, numerous, multiple items

ထဲ

htè — Inside, within; locative particle indicating interior

ထိုး

htoh — To stab, pierce, insert forcefully into something

ထည့်

htè — To put in, insert, place inside something

ထား

htà — To place, keep, leave something somewhere

ကြ

kyà — Plural verb particle; done together by many

ပြီး

pyì — Already done; completed action; after doing

ရှည်လျားသော

shè-lyà-thaw — Long, lengthy in measurement or duration

အနက်ရောင်

a-nét-yaung — Black color; the darkest color

ဆံပင်

sàn-byin — Hair on the head; human head hair

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; conjunction connecting words or phrases

ထူထဲသော

htù-htè-thaw — Thick, dense, having substantial depth or volume

မုတ်ဆိတ်မွေး

moat-seit-mwè — Beard; facial hair grown on the chin

ရှိ

shì — To have, exist, be present somewhere

သည်

thì — Subject marker particle; indicates topic of sentence

အလွန်

a-lwùn — Very, extremely, exceedingly; intensifier adverb

ပုံရိပ်ကျ

pùn-yét-kyà — To appear, seem, give an impression of

သော်လည်း

thaw-lè — However, although, even though; concessive conjunction

ကြည့်

kyì — To look, watch, observe something carefully

ရ

ya — Can, able to; possibility or permission marker

သာမည့်

thà-mè — Only, merely; limiting or restrictive particle

ပုံ

pùn — Shape, form, picture; also resemblance marker

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not, do not, will not

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, above; surface location particle

မင်္ဂလာ

min-ga-la — Auspicious, blessed; used in greetings and ceremonies

ဇာတ်ခုံ

zat-khùn — Stage, platform for performance or theatrical shows

ပေါ်တွင်

paw-twin — On, upon; located on top of a surface

ဆိုလျှင်

soh-shin — If, when; conditional conjunction meaning if so

သူတို့ကို

thu-toh-goh — Them; third person plural object marker

အရှေ့တိုင်းရင်းသား

a-shè-tine-yin-thà — Eastern indigenous or ethnic minority people

ဓားပြ

dà-byà — Robber, bandit who attacks with a weapon

အုပ်စု

owt-su — Group, gang, cluster of people or things

ဟောင်း

haung — Old, worn out, antiquated; not new anymore

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing; a single unit of something

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker; that, said, as stated

ချက်ချင်း

chét-jin — Immediately, at once, right away without delay

သတ်မှတ်

thàt-hmàt — To define, designate, determine, classify something officially

လိမ့်မည်

lein-myi — Will probably, likely to be; probability marker

သို့သော်

thoh-thaw — However, but, nevertheless; contrastive conjunction

အန္တရာယ်

an-ta-yè — Danger, hazard, risk, threat to safety

ကင်း

kin — Free from, devoid of, lacking something negative

လှ

hlà — Beautiful, attractive, pretty, lovely in appearance

သဘာဝ

tha-ba-wa — Nature, natural; innate characteristic or quality

ကျသော

kyà-thaw — Fallen, decreased, lowered; suitable or fitting

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, one's own; reflexive pronoun

ကိုယ်ကို

ko-goh — Oneself, yourself; reflexive object pronoun

ခိုင်ခံ့

khain-khan — Strong, firm, sturdy, solid in character

စွာ

swa — Adverbial particle; in a manner of doing

ဖော်ထုတ်

phaw-htoat — To reveal, expose, express, bring out something

မှု

hmu — Nominalizer suffix; turns verbs into abstract nouns

နည်း

nè — Method, way, means; also few or little

ကျွန်ုပ်

kyùn-noh — I, me; formal first person singular pronoun

အား

à — Object marker particle; to, for, at someone

ပြော

pyaw — To say, speak, tell, communicate verbally

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kyùn-noh-toh — We, us; formal first person plural pronoun

သို့

thoh — To, toward; directional particle indicating destination

ရောက်ရှိ

yowt-shì — To arrive at, reach, be present at

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that, which, who

အခါ

a-kha — Time, occasion, moment when something occurs

ညနေ

nya-nè — Evening, late afternoon time of day

နေဝင်ချိန်

nè-win-chein — Sunset time; the moment sun goes down

၏

ê — Possessive particle; of, belonging to someone

မှောင်မိုက်

hmowng-mite — Darkness, gloom; absence of light; dark

ဘက်

bét — Side, direction, toward; indicating orientation or faction

တွင်

twin — In, at, within; locative particle for location

နေ

nè — To live, stay, reside; also sun or day

စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်

sate-win-sà-phwè — Interesting, fascinating, worth paying attention to

ကောင်းသော

kaung-thaw — Good, fine, excellent in quality or character

မြို့

myoh — Town, city; a settlement larger than a village

တစ်မြို့

tit-myoh — A town, one town; single urban settlement

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen, occur, exist

နယ်စပ်

nè-sàt — Border, frontier, boundary between two territories

နီးပါး

nì-bà — Nearly, almost, approximately close to something

တည်ရှိ

tì-shì — To be situated, located, exist in place

သဖြင့်

tha-phyin — Therefore, thus, because of that reason

လမ်းကြောင်း

lan-jaung — Route, path, road course or direction taken

မှ

hmà — From, since; ablative particle indicating origin point

ဆက်သွယ်

sét-thwè — To connect, contact, link, communicate with someone

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to; causal particle

ဆူပူ

su-pu — Turbulent, chaotic, noisy, troubled; commotion

သမိုင်း

tha-maing — History, historical record of past events

ကို

goh — Object marker particle; direct object indicator

ကြုံတွေ့

kyùn-twaé — To encounter, experience, come across something

ခဲ့

khé — Past tense marker; indicates completed past action

သမိုင်းကြောင်း

tha-maing-kyaung — Historical background, historical context, history record

အမှတ်အသား

a-hmàt-a-thà — Mark, sign, symbol, distinguishing feature or note

ထင်ရှား

htin-shà — Famous, prominent, notable, well-known, distinguished

ပြသ

pyà-tha — To show, display, demonstrate, present something clearly

နှစ်

hnit — Year; also the number two in counting

ငါးဆယ်

ngà-hsè — Fifty; the number fifty (50)

ခန့်

khàn — Approximately, about, around; estimation particle

က

ga — Subject marker particle; indicates agent of action

မီးလောင်မှု

mì-laung-hmu — Fire incident, conflagration, burning event

ကြီး

jì — Big, large, great, major in size or importance

တစ်ဆက်တစ်တည်း

tit-sét-tit-tì — Continuously, uninterruptedly, in succession without break

ဖြစ်ပွား

phyit-bwà — To occur, take place, break out (event)

ခြားနားသော

chà-nà-thaw — Different, distinct, varied, unlike others

ငါး

ngà — Five; the number five; also means fish

ကြိမ်

kyein — Times, occasions; counter for number of times

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

kyowt-mét-phwè — Terrible, dreadful, frightening, horrifying in nature

ပျက်စီး

pyét-sì — To be destroyed, ruined, damaged, deteriorated badly

ဆုံးရှုံး

sòun-shòun — To lose, suffer loss, be defeated or perished

ဖြစ်ပေါ်

phyit-paw — To arise, emerge, come about, develop suddenly

ဆယ်ခုနစ်

hsè-khù-nit — Seventeen; the number seventeen (17)

ရာစုနှစ်

ya-su-hnit — Century; a period of one hundred years

အစောဆုံး

a-saw-zòun — Earliest, first in time, most early period

ကာလ

ka-la — Period, era, time span, duration of time

သုံးပတ်

thòun-bat — Three weeks; a period of three weeks

ကြာ

kya — Long time, duration; to last for a period

ဝိုင်းရံ

wine-yan — To surround, encircle, besiege from all sides

တိုက်ခိုက်

tite-khite — To attack, assault, fight against an enemy

ခြင်းကို

chin-goh — Nominalizer particle marking verbal noun as object

ခံ

khan — To receive, endure, suffer, undergo something

လူ

lu — Person, human being, people in general

ကာ

ga — While doing; continuative connective particle

စစ်ပွဲ

sit-bwè — War, battle, armed conflict between opposing forces

ဖြစ်သော

phyit-thaw — That is, being; relative clause with 'to be'

သေကြေ

thè-kyè — Death and destruction; to die in numbers

ဒဏ်ရာ

dàn-ya — Wound, injury, physical harm to the body

အစာရေစာ

a-sa-yè-za — Food and water; provisions, sustenance for living

ငတ်မွတ်

ngàt-mwàt — Starving, famished, suffering from severe hunger

ရောဂါဘယ

yaw-ga-bha-ya — Disease, illness, sickness causing suffering

များက

myà-ga — Plural subject marker; multiple things as subject

ပို

poh — More, even more; comparative degree marker

မို

moh — Sky, heaven; used in compounds about weather

ဆိုးရွား

soh-ywà — Serious, severe, bad, worse in condition

စေ

sè — Causative particle; to cause or make someone do

ဟိုတယ်

hoh-tel — Hotel; a building providing accommodation for guests

သွားရောက်

thwà-yowt — To go and arrive at, visit a place

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of; goal

ညွှန်ကြား

hnùn-kyà — To instruct, direct, advise, give orders to

ခေတ်ဟောင်း

khét-haung — Old era, ancient times, old-fashioned period

ဆန်

san — To go against, oppose; also uncooked rice

သည်ကို

thì-goh — That which is; nominalizing and object marking

တွေ့

twaé — To find, meet, encounter, come across

ဝမ်းမြောက်

wùn-myowt — To be happy, delighted, pleased, joyful about

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kyaung-hma — The reason is; regarding the matter of

နိုင်ငံ

nain-ngan — Country, nation, state; a sovereign territory

ဓလေ့

da-lè — Custom, tradition, habit, usual practice of people

ထုံးစံ

htòun-san — Convention, custom, established norm, traditional practice

တတ်နိုင်

tàt-nain — As much as possible, to the extent able

သမျှ

tha-myà — All, every, as much as; totality marker

ကြည့်ရှု

kyì-shu — To observe, watch, view attentively and carefully

လို

loh — Want, need, like, similar to; desire marker

ကြိုစောင့်

kyoh-saung — To wait for in advance, anticipate someone's arrival

သည်မှာ

thì-hma — As for; topicalizing emphatic sentence particle

တံခါး

tan-kha — Door, gate, entrance to a building or room

နား

nà — Ear; also to rest, stop near or beside

ရောက်

yowt — To arrive, reach, get to a destination

ပုံမှန်

pùn-hmàn — Normal, regular, ordinary, standard, typical

တောသူ

taw-thu — Forest dweller, rural person, person from wilderness

တောင်သူ

taung-thu — Farmer, peasant, agricultural worker, hill dweller

ဝတ်စုံ

wàt-sòun — Outfit, costume, set of clothes worn together

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of; instrumental particle

အရောင်စုံ

a-yaung-zòun — Multicolored, many colors, colorful variety of hues

ပါဝင်သော

pa-win-thaw — Including, consisting of, containing, having as part

ပြွတ်သိပ်

pyùt-thait — Crowded, packed, crammed full of people

သည့်

thìh — Relative clause marker; which, that, who (attributive)

နှစ်ထပ်

hnit-htat — Double layered, two-storey, having two layers

ထိပ်ကြပ်

hteit-kyat — Tight-fitting hat, close-fitting top; snug covering

ရှေ့နောက်

shè-nout — Front and back, before and after, both sides

ပစ်

pyit — To throw, shoot, discard; also perfective marker

အဖြူရောင်

a-phyu-yaung — White color; the lightest color, pure white

အောက်ခံ

owt-khan — Undergarment, underlayer, foundation layer of clothing

ဝတ်ဆင်

wàt-sin — To wear, dress in, put on clothing

ရွှင်လန်း

shwin-lan — Cheerful, lively, merry, in high spirits

ဝင်းပေါ်

win-paw — Glowing, radiant, shining brightly on surface

အသက်ကြီး

a-thét-jì — Elderly, old in age, advanced in years

မိန်းမ

mein-ma — Woman, female; adult female person

တစ်ဦး

tit-ù — One person; a single individual person

မျက်နှာချင်းဆိုင်

myét-hna-chin-sain — Face to face, opposite, directly facing each other

မိ

mi — To catch, get caught, be affected by

နီးကပ်

nì-kàt — Close, nearby, in close proximity to someone

လာ

la — To come, approach; also directional verb marker

သူမ

thu-ma — She, her; third person singular female pronoun

ညွတ်

nyùt — To bow, bend, lean forward respectfully

အဂ်လိပ်

in-ga-leit — English; relating to England or English people

လူကြီးမင်း

lu-jì-min — Sir, gentleman, honorable person; respectful address