Great Expectations — Page 1

Vocabulary

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw — My (male first-person possessive pronoun)

ဖခင်

hpa-hkin — Father, male parent

၏

e — Possessive or linking particle in formal writing

မိသားစု

mi-tha-zu — Family, household unit

နာမည်

na-mye — Name, title of a person

မှာ

hma — At, in; locative or command particle

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit-pyi — Being, having become; connective verb form

ခရစ်ယာန်

khayit-yan — Christian, follower of Christianity

ဖြစ်သည်

hpyit-thi — Is, am, are; to be (formal)

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I, me (male formal first-person pronoun)

ကလေး

ka-lay — Child, young person

ဘဝ

bawa — Life, existence, state of being

လျှာ

hsha — Tongue, organ of speech

သည်

thi — Topic marker or present tense particle

နှစ်ခု

hnit-khu — Two things, a pair

စလုံး

sa-lone — Both, all of them together

ကို

go — Object marker, accusative particle

ထက်

htet — Than, more than (comparative particle)

ပို

po — More, to a greater degree

၍

yway — Therefore, and so (connective particle)

ရှည်

shay — Long, lengthy in size or duration

သော

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

သို့မဟုတ်

thote-ma-hout — Or, otherwise, alternatively

ရှင်းလင်း

shyin-lin — Clear, plain, easy to understand

ဘာသည်မျှ

ba-thi-mya — Nothing at all, not anything whatsoever

ထုတ်ဖော်

htoat-hpaw — To reveal, express, make known

ပြောဆို

pyaw-so — To speak, say, express verbally

နိုင်ခြင်း

nine-chin — Ability to do something, capability

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist, there is none

ခဲ့ပေ

kheh-bay — Emphatic past particle, indeed was so

သို့

thote — To, toward, in the direction of

ဖြစ်၍

hpyit-yway — Because of being, since it is so

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, reflexive pronoun

ကိုယ်ကို

ko-go — Oneself, reflexive object form

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle, meaning 'saying that'

ခေါ်ဝေါ်

khaw-waw — To call, name, address someone

ခဲ့ပြီး

kheh-pyi — Had done and then, past connective

နောင်

naung — Later, in the future, afterward

တွင်

twine — In, at, within (locative particle)

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix turning verb into noun

ခံရ

khan-ya — To receive, undergo, be subjected to

သူ

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

ဖြစ်လာ

hpyit-la — To become, to come to be

ခဲ့သည်

kheh-thi — Did, past tense auxiliary marker

အဖြစ်

a-hpyit — As, in the role of, in the capacity of

သင်္ချိုင်း

thin-chin — Cemetery, graveyard, burial ground

ကျောက်တိုင်

kyout-tine — Tombstone, stone grave marker

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with

အစ်မ

a-ma — Older sister

သံမှုတ်သမား

thun-hmout-tha-ma — Blacksmith, one who works iron

လက်ထပ်

let-htat — To marry, to wed

ခဲ့သော

kheh-thaw — Past relative clause marker, who had done

တို့

doe — Plural marker for pronouns or nouns

အာဏာပိုင်

a-na-pine — Authority, official, person in power

မှု

hmu — Abstract nominalizer, matter or affair

အရ

a-ya — According to, based on, per

ဖော်ပြ

hpaw-pya — To describe, depict, indicate clearly

ပေးလိုက်

pay-lite — To give (away), to hand over

လည်းကောင်း

leh-kaung — Also, as well, likewise (formal)

မိခင်

mi-khin — Mother, female parent

တစ်ခါမျှ

tit-kha-mya — Never, not even once

မမြင်ဖူး

ma-myin-hpu — Have never seen before

ခဲ့ဘဲ

kheh-beh — Without having done, past negative connector

သူတို့

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

နှစ်ဦး

hnit-u — Two people, a pair of persons

ထဲမှ

hteh-hma — From within, out of

တစ်ဦးဦး

tit-u-u — Any one person, either one

ပုံရိပ်

pone-yit — Image, impression, silhouette

ကိုပင်

go-pin — Even (object), emphasizing the object

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to, owing to

ကာလ

ka-la — Period of time, era, duration

ဓာတ်ပုံ

dat-pone — Photograph, photo image

ခေတ်

khет — Era, age, period, times

မတိုင်မီ

ma-tine-mi — Before, prior to a certain time

ကြာမြင့်စွာ

kya-myint-zwa — For a long time, at length

က

ga — Subject marker or agent particle

ဖြစ်သော

hpyit-thaw — Which is, being (relative clause form)

မည်သို့

myi-thote — How, in what manner (interrogative)

ပုံသဏ္ဍာန်

pone-thun-dan — Shape, form, appearance, figure

ရှိသည်

shi-thi — There is, exists, to have

ဆိုသည်

so-thi — Says, is called, means (quotative)

ပတ်သက်၍

pat-thet-yway — Regarding, concerning, with respect to

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma-zone — First of all, foremost

စိတ်ကူး

sate-ku — Idea, thought, imagination

များ

mya — Plural marker, many, more

မှ

hma — From, since (source or ablative particle)

အကြောင်းမဲ့

a-kyaung-meh — Without reason, groundlessly, arbitrarily

ဆင်ခြင်

sin-chin — To consider, reflect, reason carefully

ထုတ်ယူ

htoat-yu — To extract, take out, derive

မိခြင်း

mi-chin — The act of catching or grasping

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely (restrictive particle)

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်

hpyit-kheh-thi — Was, became (past tense of to be)

ပေါ်ရှိ

paw-shi — Located on, existing on top of

စာလုံး

sa-lone — Letter, character, written word

နားရွက်

na-ywet — Ear, the organ of hearing

ကျယ်ကျယ်

kyeh-kyeh — Wide, broad, spacious, loudly

ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာ

ko-kanda — Body, physical form of a person

သန်မာ

thun-ma — Strong, sturdy, robust, healthy

အသား

a-tha — Flesh, skin, meat

ညို

nyo — Brown, dark-complexioned, tanned

ဆံပင်

sun-pin — Hair (of the head)

နက်နက်

net-net — Deep, dark (in color or depth)

လိပ်ခေါင်း

leit-gaung — Forehead, front of the head

ကျ

kya — To fall, drop; directional or stative verb

ယောက်ျား

yout-kya — Man, male adult person

တစ်ဦး

tit-u — One person (counter for people)

ဟူသော

hu-thaw — Called, known as (formal quotative relative)

ထူးဆန်း

htu-sun — Strange, unusual, extraordinary, odd

ထံ

htan — To, toward (a person); near someone

ပေးခဲ့သည်

pay-kheh-thi — Gave, had given (past tense)

လောင်းကျဉ်း

laung-kyin — Narrow, confined, cramped in space

သဘောသဘာဝ

tha-baw-tha-ba-wa — Nature, character, temperament, disposition

ဦးတည်ချက်

u-nye-chet — Aim, goal, objective, purpose

မျက်နှာ

myet-hna — Face, countenance, front

အပြောက်

a-pyout — Spots, speckles, markings on surface

နာမကျန်း

na-ma-kyan — Ill, sick, not in good health

ဆန်

sun — Rice (uncooked), raw rice grains

နိဂုံးချုပ်မှု

ni-gone-choat-hmu — Conclusion, summary, ending of something

မိခဲ့သည်

mi-kheh-thi — Had caught, grasped, or perceived

နဘေး

na-beh — Beside, nearby, next to

သပ်ရပ်

thet-yat — Neat, tidy, orderly in appearance

တန်း

tan — Row, line, rank, level

တစ်တန်း

tit-tan — One row, one line, in a row

စီစဉ်

si-zin — To arrange, organize, plan, prepare

ထားသော

hta-thaw — Which has been placed or kept

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing (general object counter)

ချင်းစီ

chin-zi — Each, every one individually

ပေ

pay — Foot (unit of length measurement)

တစ်ဝက်

tit-wet — Half, one half of something

ခန့်

khan — Approximately, about, roughly (estimator)

သည့်

thi — Relative clause marker (which, that)

ကျောက်

kyout — Stone, rock, gem

ငယ်

ngeh — Young, small, junior

အသက်ရှင်

a-thet-shin — To be alive, to live, survive

နေထိုင်ရာ

nay-hine-ya — Place of residence, dwelling place

ကြိုးစား

kyo-za — To try hard, make effort, strive

အားထုတ်မှု

a-htoat-hmu — Effort, exertion, endeavor

ထို

hto — That, those (demonstrative, somewhat formal)

ကမ္ဘာ့

kamba — World's, of the world (possessive form)

တိုက်ပွဲ

tite-pwe — Battle, fight, conflict, struggle

အလွန်

a-lwun — Very, extremely, exceedingly

စောစော

saw-saw — Early, soon, at an early time

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed (emphatic particle)

စွန့်လွှတ်

swun-hlwut — To abandon, give up, relinquish

သွားခဲ့သော

thwa-kheh-thaw — Who went away, departed (past relative)

ညီ

nyi — Younger sibling (brother or sister)

ငါးယောက်

nga-yout — Five people (person counter)

အမှတ်တရ

a-hmat-ta-ya — Memorable, commemorative, souvenir

အတွက်

a-twet — For, for the sake of, for the purpose

သန့်ရှင်း

thun-shin — Clean, pure, holy, sacred

ကြည့်ရှု

kyi-shu — To look at, observe, view

မိသော

mi-thaw — Which was caught or perceived (relative)

အခါ

a-kha — Time, occasion, when (temporal noun)

အားလုံး

a-lone — All, everyone, everything

ကိုယ်

ko — Self, body, oneself (reflexive/personal)

နောက်

nauk — After, behind, next, later

လှန်

hlun — To turn over, flip, reverse

ကာ

ka — While, doing (connective present participle)

လက်

let — Hand, arm

နှစ်ဖက်

hnit-hpet — Both sides, two sides

ဘောင်းဘီ

baung-bi — Trousers, pants

အိတ်ကပ်

ait-kat — Pocket (of clothing)

ထဲ

hteh — Inside, within, into

သွင်းကာ

thwin-ka — Having inserted or put inside while

မွေးဖွားလာ

mway-hpwa-la — To be born, to come into being

ဤ

i — This (formal demonstrative pronoun)

၌

nit — In, at, within (formal locative particle)

မပြု

ma-pyu — Did not do, not performing an action

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense auxiliary verb marker

ယုံကြည်ချက်

yone-kyi-chet — Belief, conviction, faith

ကြည်ညို

kyi-nyo — To revere, admire, look up to

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

ကိုင်စွဲ

kine-sweh — To hold, grasp, clutch firmly

ထားရာ

hta-ya — Where something is kept or placed

ကျောက်တုံး

kyout-tone — Stone block, chunk of stone

ကျေးဇူး

kyay-zu — Gratitude, kindness, favor, grace

ခံစားရ

khan-za-ya — To feel, experience, receive an experience