Great Expectations — Page 4

Vocabulary

သူတို့ကို

thu-to-go — to them; object marker for third-person plural

ဟု

hku — quotative particle meaning 'said that' or 'thus'

လူက

lu-ga — the person; subject marker indicating the man

ခြိမ်းခြောက်သည့်

chrime-chout-the — threatening; in a menacing or intimidating manner

ပုံစံဖြင့်

pone-san-pfyin — in the manner of; in the style of

ခေါင်းကို

gaung-go — the head; object marker referring to the head

ညိတ်ကာ

nyit-ka — nodding; while nodding the head

ပြောလိုက်သည်

pyaw-lite-the — said; spoke out at that moment

ငါ

nga — I; informal first-person singular pronoun

မစားဘဲ

ma-sa-be — without eating; refraining from eating

မေ့မရဘူး

mhay-ma-ya-boo — cannot forget; unable to forget at all

သူ

thu — he, she, they; third-person singular pronoun

ကျွန်တော်

kyun-daw — I; formal male first-person singular pronoun

အလေးအနက်

a-lay-a-nate — seriously; with great seriousness and sincerity

မျှော်လင့်ကြောင်း

myaw-lin-gyaung — that one hopes; expressing hope or expectation

ဖော်ပြပြီး

pfaw-pya-pyi — having expressed or indicated; after showing

ကျွန်တော့်ကို

kyun-daw-go — to me; object marker for formal male speaker

တင်ထားသော

tin-hta-thaw — that which is placed or mounted upon something

သုသာန်

thu-than — cemetery; graveyard or burial ground

ကျောက်တိုင်ကို

kyout-tine-go — the gravestone; object marker for stone pillar

ပိုမို

po-mo — more; even more; to a greater degree

တင်းကျပ်စွာ

tin-kyat-zwa — tightly; firmly; in a tight or secure manner

ကိုင်ဆုပ်ထားလိုက်သည်

kine-sote-hta-lite-the — gripped tightly; held firmly onto something

တစ်ပိုင်းအားဖြင့်

ta-pine-a-pfyin — partly; in one part; on one account

၎င်း

da-gin — it; that; referring to previously mentioned subject

ပေါ်မှ

pfaw-hma — from on top of; from upon something

မကျသွားရန်

ma-kya-thwa-yan — in order not to fall down; to prevent falling

မငိုမိရန်

ma-ngo-mi-yan — in order not to cry; to avoid crying involuntarily

ဟူ၍

hku-yway — thus; so; used as a formal quotative connector

ဖြစ်သည်

pfyit-the — is; it is; to be; existential or linking verb

ခဏနေ

kha-na-nay — wait a moment; in a short while; just a minute

ဒီကို

di-go — here; to this place; toward this location

ကြည့်

kyi — look; see; to look at something

ပြောသည်

pyaw-the — says; speaks; utters words to someone

မင်း

min — you; informal second-person singular pronoun

အမေ

a-may — mother; mom; term of address for mother

ဘယ်မှာ

beh-hma — where; at what place; asking about location

လဲ

le — question particle; also means 'and' or 'too'

အဲဒီမှာ

aze-di-hma — over there; at that place; in that location

ပါ

pa — polite particle; also 'also' or 'included'

ဆရာ

hsaya — teacher; master; respectful title for teacher

ထိတ်လန့်သွားပြီး

htite-lan-thwa-pyi — having been startled; after getting a fright

အနည်းငယ်

a-ni-ngway — a little; slightly; a small amount

ပြေးကာ

pyay-ka — while running; having run; running briefly

ရပ်လိုက်ကာ

yat-lite-ka — having stopped; while stopping abruptly

မိမိ့

mi-mi — one's own; possessive reflexive pronoun

ပခုံးကို

pa-khone-go — the shoulder; object marker for shoulder

လှည့်ကြည့်လိုက်သည်

hlhay-kyi-lite-the — turned to look; glanced back over shoulder

ရိုရိုသေးသေး

yo-yo-thay-thay — humbly; in a simple and modest manner

ရှင်းပြလိုက်သည်

shin-pya-lite-the — explained; clarified something to someone

ပါပဲ

pa-be — indeed; it is so; emphatic affirmative particle

ဒါ

da — this; this thing; informal demonstrative pronoun

ကျွန်တော့်

kyun-daw — my; possessive form of formal male first person

အို

o — oh; exclamation of surprise or realization

ပြန်လာရင်း

pyan-la-yin — while returning; on the way back; coming back

ပြီးတော့

pyi-daw — then; after that; and then next

နားမှာ

na-hma — near; beside; at the side of something

ရှိတဲ့

shi-de — that is there; existing; present at a place

အဖေ

a-pfay — father; dad; term of address for father

လား

la — question particle indicating yes/no question

ဟုတ်ကဲ့

hote-khe — yes; that is correct; polite affirmative response

လည်း

le — also; too; as well; additive particle

ပါတယ်

pa-de — there is; it exists; polite affirmative verb ending

ဒီ

di — this; here; demonstrative adjective for nearness

မြို့

myoe — town; city; urban settlement

ထဲမှာ

hte-hma — inside; within; in the interior of something

နောက်ဆုံး

naout-zone — last; finally; most recently; at the end

နေခဲ့တာ

nay-khe-ta — had been living; was staying for a period

ဟာ

ha — topic marker; that thing; emphatic particle

တွေးဆ

tway-hsa — to think and reason; to ponder and consider

ကာ

ka — while; as; connective particle between clauses

တိုးတိုး

toe-toe — quietly; softly; in a hushed manner

လေး

lay — softening particle; also means four; gentle emphasis

ဘယ်သူနဲ့

beh-thu-ne — with whom; with which person; asking about companion

နေတာ

nay-ta — living; staying; the fact of residing somewhere

သနားလို့

tha-na-lo — because of pity; feeling sorry for someone

မင်းကို

min-go — to you; object marker for informal second person

အသက်

a-thet — life; age; breath; one's lifespan or years

ချမ်းသာ

chan-tha — prosperity; happiness; comfortable and well-off

ပေးဦးမယ်

pay-oun-me — will give first; intending to give to someone

ဆိုရင်

so-yin — if; if one says; conditional conjunction

ဒါကိုလည်း

da-go-le — this too; also regarding this matter

အသေအချာ

a-thay-a-cha — carefully; for certain; making sure definitively

မဆုံးဖြတ်ရ

ma-zone-pfyat-ya — must not decide; should not make a decision yet

သေးဘူး

thay-boo — not yet; has not happened yet; still not

အစ်မ

a-hma — older sister; respectful term for elder sister

မစ္စစ်

ma-sit — Mrs.; title of address for married woman

သံပန်းဆရာ

than-pan-hsaya — blacksmith; craftsman who works with iron or metal

၏

e — possessive particle; of; belonging to someone

ဇနီးတော်

za-ni-daw — wife; formal or respectful term for one's wife

ဟုတ်လား

hote-la — is that so; really; asking for confirmation

မိမိ

mi-mi — oneself; reflexive pronoun meaning one's own self

ခြေထောက်ကို

chay-htout-go — the foot or leg; object marker for foot/leg

ငုံ့ကြည့်လိုက်သည်

ngone-kyi-lite-the — looked down at; glanced downward at something

ခြေထောက်

chay-htout — foot; leg; the lower limb of the body

နှင့်

hnin — and; with; together with; conjunction particle

မဲမဲ

me-me — darkly; in a dark-colored or gloomy manner

ဖြင့်

pfyin — with; by means of; using; instrumental particle

အကြိမ်ကြိမ်

a-kyime-kyime — repeatedly; again and again; multiple times

ကြည့်ပြီးနောက်

kyi-pyi-naout — after looking; following the act of gazing

ကျောက်တိုင်

kyout-tine — stone pillar; gravestone; memorial stone marker

နားသို့

na-thoe — toward the side of; near; in the direction of

နီးကပ်လာကာ

ni-kat-la-ka — having come closer; while approaching nearby

လက်မောင်း

let-maung — arm; the upper arm of the human body

နှစ်ဖက်ကို

hnit-pfet-go — both sides; both arms; object marker for both sides

ဆုပ်ကိုင်ပြီး

sote-kine-pyi — having gripped; after grasping firmly with hands

နောက်သို့

naout-thoe — backward; toward the back; in the rear direction

ယိမ်းစေသည်

yime-zay-the — causes to lean; makes something tilt or sway

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto-gyaung — therefore; because of that; for that reason

မျက်လုံးများက

myet-lone-mya-ga — the eyes; subject marker for the eyes

မျက်လုံးများ

myet-lone-mya — eyes; the pair of eyes; plural of eye

ထဲသို့

hte-thoe — into; toward the inside of something

အင်အား

in-a — strength; power; force; physical or political power

ကြီးစွာ

ji-zwa — greatly; with great intensity; in a large manner

နေပြီး

nay-pyi — while staying; having remained; continuing to be

ကလည်း

ga-le — also; too; subject marker with additive meaning

အကူအညီ

a-ku-a-nyi — help; assistance; aid given to someone

မဲ့စွာ

me-zwa — without; lacking; in a deprived manner

အပေါ်ကို

a-pfaw-go — upward; toward the top; in an upward direction

ကြည့်နေသည်

kyi-nay-the — is looking; continues to gaze at something

ပေးမပေး

pay-ma-pay — whether to give or not; give or not give

ဆိုတာ

so-ta — meaning; the thing called; nominalizer for clauses

ဒါပဲ

da-be — that's all; just that; only this thing

မေးခွန်း

may-khwan — question; query; an inquiry posed to someone

ဖြစ်တယ်

pfyit-te — it is; it happens; becomes; colloquial to be

ဖိုင်

pfine — file; a document file or folder

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — one; a single item; one piece of something

ဘာ

ba — what; asking about the identity of something

သိလား

thi-la — do you know; asking if someone is aware