Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Page 1

Vocabulary

၊

(comma pause mark) — Burmese punctuation mark indicating a pause

သို့မဟုတ်

thoe ma-hkout — Or; used to present an alternative option

ခေတ်သစ်

khate thit — Modern era; the new or contemporary age

ရေးသားသည်

yay-tha-dhi — To write or compose a literary work

မာတိကာ

ma-ti-ka — Table of contents; list of chapters or topics

စာ

sa — Letter, writing, page, or written text

၁

tit — The numeral one in Burmese script

၂

hnit — The numeral two in Burmese script

၃

thone — The numeral three in Burmese script

၄

lay — The numeral four in Burmese script

အခန်း

a-khan — Chapter of a book or a room

၅

nga — The numeral five in Burmese script

၆

chauk — The numeral six in Burmese script

၇

khun-nit — The numeral seven in Burmese script

၈

shit — The numeral eight in Burmese script

၉

ko — The numeral nine in Burmese script

၁၀

tit-se — The numeral ten in Burmese script

၁၁

tit-se-tit — The numeral eleven in Burmese script

၁၂

tit-se-hnit — The numeral twelve in Burmese script

၁၃

tit-se-thone — The numeral thirteen in Burmese script

၁၄

tit-se-lay — The numeral fourteen in Burmese script

၁၅

tit-se-nga — The numeral fifteen in Burmese script

၁၆

tit-se-chauk — The numeral sixteen in Burmese script

၁၇

tit-se-khun-nit — The numeral seventeen in Burmese script

၁၈

tit-se-shit — The numeral eighteen in Burmese script

၁၉

tit-se-ko — The numeral nineteen in Burmese script

၂၀

hnit-se — The numeral twenty in Burmese script

၂၁

hnit-se-tit — The numeral twenty-one in Burmese script

၂၂

hnit-se-hnit — The numeral twenty-two in Burmese script

၂၃

hnit-se-thone — The numeral twenty-three in Burmese script

၂၄

hnit-se-lay — The numeral twenty-four in Burmese script

မစ္စတာ

mit-sa-ta — Mister; formal title used before a man's name

အင်္ဂလန်

in-ga-lan — England, a country in the United Kingdom

သို့

thoe — To; indicating direction or recipient of action

။

(period mark) — Burmese full stop punctuation ending a sentence

ဒီဇင်ဘာ

di-zin-ba — December, the twelfth month of the year

ရက်

yet — Day; a unit of time equal to 24 hours

သင်

thin — You; second-person singular pronoun in Burmese

သည်

dhi — Sentence marker indicating present tense or subject

ဤ

i — This; demonstrative pronoun referring to something near

မဂ္ဂလာမဲ့သော

mat-ga-la-meh-dho — Inauspicious; lacking good fortune or blessings

ကြိုတင်ထင်မြင်ချက်

kyo-tin-htin-myin-chet — Preconception; an opinion formed before knowing facts

များ

mya — Plural marker; many or multiple things or people

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by means of; using a tool or method

ရှုမြင်

shu-myin — To view or perceive something with a perspective

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense marker indicating a completed action

သည့်

dhin — Relative clause marker linking modifier to noun

လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်

loat-ngan-sin — Process; a series of steps or procedures

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One; a single unit or item of something

၏

e — Possessive particle indicating ownership or relation

အစပိုင်း

a-si-pine — Beginning; the early stage or start of something

တွင်

dwin — In; at; locative particle indicating location or time

မည်သည့်

myi-dhin — Which; whichever; used in relative or conditional clauses

ဘေးအန္တရာယ်

beh-an-da-ya — Danger; peril; a threatening or harmful situation

မျှ

hmya — Even; as much as; emphasizing degree or equality

မကြုံ

ma-kyoun — Not encounter; to not experience or come across

ကြောင်း

kyaung — Nominalizer or reported speech complementizer particle

ကြားသိ

kya-thi — To hear about; to learn through others' account

ရ

ya — To receive or obtain; also indicates ability

သော

dho — Relative clause particle modifying a preceding noun

အခါ

a-kha — When; the time or occasion that something happens

ဝမ်းမြောက်

wun-myout — To be glad, delighted, or filled with joy

မည်

myi — Future tense marker indicating something will happen

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit-thi — To be; exists as; indicates a state of being

ငါ

nga — I; first-person singular pronoun, informal register

မနေ့

ma-neh — Yesterday; the day before today

က

ka — Subject or agent marker particle in a sentence

နေရာ

ne-ya — Place; location; a specific spot or area

ရောက်ရှိ

yout-shi — To arrive at or reach a place

ပြီး

pyi — After; and then; indicating completion of an action

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma-zone — First; foremost; occurring before everything else

တာဝန်

ta-wan — Responsibility; duty; an obligation one must fulfill

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative or dative particle in sentences

ချစ်သော

chit-dho — Dear; beloved; one who is loved affectionately

ညီမ

nyi-ma — Younger sister; a female sibling younger than oneself

အား

a — Objective case marker; also means strength or energy

ကျန်းမာနေထိုင်မှု

kyan-ma-ne-htine-hmu — Health and wellbeing; state of living healthily

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; used to join nouns or clauses

လုပ်ငန်း

loat-ngan — Work; business; an enterprise or professional activity

အောင်မြင်

aung-myin — To succeed; to achieve a desired goal or outcome

ဟူသော

hu-dho — Called; named; defining or introducing a term

တိုးမြင့်

toe-myint — To increase; to rise; to improve in level

လာသော

la-dho — Coming; that which has arrived or is approaching

ယုံကြည်မှု

yone-kyi-hmu — Belief; trust; confidence in someone or something

ကို

ko — Object marker particle indicating direct object of verb

သေချာ

the-cha — Sure; certain; to make sure or be certain

စေ

se — Causative particle meaning to cause or let happen

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing something

လန်ဒန်

lan-dan — London, the capital city of England

မြောက်ဘက်

myout-bet — North; the northern direction or region

အလှမ်းဝေးသော

a-hlan-weh-dho — Far away; distant; located a great distance apart

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present somewhere

နေ

ne — To stay; to live; continuous aspect marker

ပြီ

pyi — Already; completion particle indicating finished action

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit-pyi — Having become; being and then; causal connector

လမ်း

lan — Road; street; path or way to travel on

ပေါ်တွင်

paw-dwin — On; upon; on top of a surface or location

လျှောက်လှမ်း

hlout-hlan — To walk; to stride or stroll along a path

သွား

thwa — To go; to move away from current position

စဉ်

sin — While; during; throughout a period of time

ပါးပြင်

pa-pyin — Cheek; the fleshy side of a person's face

ချမ်းသော

chan-dho — Cold; chilly; describing low temperature conditions

လေ

le — Sentence-final particle adding emphasis or softening tone

တစ်ချောင်း

tit-chaung — One strand or stick; classifier for long thin objects

ကစား

ka-za — To play; to engage in a game or sport

ခံစား

khan-za — To feel; to experience an emotion or sensation

၎င်း

da-gin — It; he/she/they; third-person formal pronoun or reference

ကြောက်ကြမ်း

kyout-kyan — Terrifying; dreadful; causing great fear or horror

ကိုယ်ခံအား

ko-khan-a — Immunity; resistance; bodily ability to withstand harm

ပြင်းထန်

pyin-htan — Intense; severe; strong in force or degree

ကာ

ka — While doing; a connective indicating simultaneous actions

ငါ့

nga — My; possessive form of the first-person pronoun

ပျော်ရွှင်မှု

pyaw-shwin-hmu — Happiness; joy; the state of being joyful

ပြည့်ဝ

pyi-wa — Full; complete; abundantly satisfied or fulfilled

ခံစားချက်

khan-za-chet — Feeling; emotion; a subjective inner experience

နားလည်

na-le — To understand; to comprehend the meaning of something

သဘောပေါက်

tha-baw-pout — To grasp; to realize or understand a concept

သလား

tha-la — Question particle asking whether something is so

တိုးတက်

toe-tet — To progress; to develop or advance in some way

ချဉ်းကပ်

chin-kat — To approach; to draw near or come closer

ဒေသ

de-tha — Region; area; a local or geographical zone

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative particle indicating source or origin

ခရီး

kha-yi — Journey; trip; travel to a destination

သွားလာ

thwa-la — To travel; to go back and forth

ထို

htoe — That; demonstrative pronoun referring to distant thing

ရေခဲ

ye-kheh — Ice; frozen water in solid form

ကြိုတင်

kyo-tin — In advance; beforehand; prior to an event

အရသာ

a-ya-tha — Taste; flavor; the sensory quality of food

ပေး

pe — To give; to provide something to someone

ကတိတော်

ka-ti-daw — Promise; a solemn pledge or commitment made

အားပေးမှု

a-pe-hmu — Encouragement; support given to motivate someone

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; indicating cause or reason

နေ့မက်

ne-met — Daydream; a pleasant fantasy imagined while awake

ပိုမို

po-mo — More; to a greater degree or extent

ရှင်းလင်းစွာ

shin-lin-zwa — Clearly; in a plain and understandable manner

ဖြစ်လာ

hpyit-la — To become; to come to be something over time

တိုင်ဝင်

tine-win — To enter or intrude into a place or matter

ဆိတ်ညံမှု

hseit-hnyam-hmu — Silence; quietness; the absence of sound or noise

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'called'

ယုံကြည်

yone-kyi — To believe; to trust in someone or something

အချည်းနှီး

a-chin-hni — In vain; fruitlessly; without achieving any result

ကြိုးစား

kyo-za — To try hard; to make an effort or attempt

အမြဲတမ်း

a-mye-dan — Always; constantly; at all times without exception

စိတ်ကူးယဉ်မှု

seit-ku-yin-hmu — Imagination; the ability to form mental images

လှပမှု

hla-pa-hmu — Beauty; the quality of being visually attractive

အဖြစ်

a-hpyit — As; in the capacity or role of something

တင်ဆက်

tin-set — To present; to introduce or offer something formally