Great Expectations — Page 6

Vocabulary

ငါ

nga — First person pronoun: I, me

တစ်ယောက်တည်း

tit yout twè — Alone, by oneself, solitary

မဟုတ်ဘူး

ma hout bu — Is not, negation of a statement

မင်း

min — You (informal), also means king

ထင်

htin — To think, believe, or suppose something

သလို

tha lo — Like, as if, similar to something

ပေါ့

paw — Sentence-final particle softening or affirming tone

နဲ့

nè — And, with, together with (conjunction/preposition)

အတူ

a tu — Together, jointly, at the same time

ပုန်းနေ

poun nay — To be hiding, to stay concealed

တဲ့

tè — Quotative or relative clause particle (colloquial)

လူငယ်

lu ngè — Young person, youth, teenager

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — One person, a single individual

ရှိ

shi — To exist, to have, to be present

တယ်

tè — Sentence-final affirmative particle (present tense)

သူ

thu — Third person pronoun: he, she, they

နှိုင်းယှဉ်

hnine shin — To compare, to contrast two things

ရင်

yin — Conditional particle meaning if, when

ဟာ

ha — Thing, it; also emphatic sentence particle

သာယာ

tha ya — Pleasant, comfortable, peaceful, enjoyable

နူးညံ့

nu nyán — Gentle, soft, tender in manner or touch

နတ်သား

nat tha — Spirit being, supernatural creature, deity's son

ထို

hto — That (demonstrative pronoun, formal register)

သည်

thì — Formal topic marker or present tense particle

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, or talk about something

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker (formal), meaning 'that/which'

စကား

za ga — Word, speech, language, conversation

များ

mya — Plural marker; many, numerous

ကို

go — Object marker, directional particle (to/toward)

ကြား

kya — To hear; between, among (spatial)

နေ

nay — To stay, live, reside; continuative particle

တွင်

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

သူ့

thu — His, her, its (possessive form of သူ)

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko pine — Own, personal, private, belonging to oneself

လျှို့ဝှက်

hsho hwet — Secret, confidential, hidden from others

နည်းလမ်း

nè lán — Method, way, approach to doing something

ကလေး

ka lay — Child, baby, young kid

ရောက်ရှိ

yout shi — To arrive at, to reach a place

နိုင်

nine — Can, to be able to, to win

ပြီး

pyi — After completing, already done, and then

၏

i — Formal possessive or genitive particle

နှလုံးသား

hnalone tha — Heart (emotional), inner feelings, spirit

နှင့်

hnin — And, with (formal conjunction/comitative particle)

အသည်း

a thì — Liver; also used metaphorically for deep feeling

ထိ

hti — Until, up to, as far as (particle)

ဝင်ရောက်

win yout — To enter, to go inside a place

မှ

hma — From, since, only then (particle)

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself, reflexive pronoun (formal register)

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; self, oneself (reflexive/informal pronoun)

ပုန်းအောင်း

poun aun — To hide oneself, to lie low secretly

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of (formal)

ကြိုးစား

kyo za — To try hard, make effort, strive

ဖို့

pho — In order to, for (purpose particle, colloquial)

အချည်းနှီး

a chin hni — In vain, fruitless, futile, pointless effort

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, to become, to happen

တံခါး

tan kha — Door, gate, entrance of a building

သော့ခတ်

thaw hkat — To lock, to bolt a door or container

အိပ်ရာ

ait ya — Bed, sleeping place, bedding

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, above, upon a surface

နွေးနွေး

nwe nwe — Warm, cozy, gently warm (reduplicated)

ထွေးထွေး

htwè htwè — Snuggled, cuddled, warmly wrapped up

ကောင်းစွာ

kaun zwa — Well, properly, in a good manner

ထုပ်ပိုး

htoat po — To wrap up, bundle, pack together

အဝတ်အထည်

a wut a htè — Clothing, fabric, garments, textiles

ခေါင်း

khaun — Head (body part); also leader/chief

ဆွဲ

sswè — To pull, drag, attract toward oneself

အဆင်ပြေ

a qin pyay — Convenient, comfortable, going smoothly

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' (formal)

သို့သော်

thodo thaw — However, but, nevertheless (formal conjunction)

တိတ်တိတ်

teit teit — Quietly, silently, without making noise

ဆိတ်ဆိတ်

sseit sseit — Very quietly, absolutely silent, hushed

တွားတွား

twa twa — Crawling, moving by crawling (reduplicated)

ဆီ

si — Oil; toward, in the direction of (particle)

သို့

thodo — To, toward, in the direction of (formal)

ချဉ်းကပ်

chin kaat — To approach, to draw near to someone

ဆုတ်ဖြဲ

ssout phyè — To pull apart, split open, tear away

လိမ့်

lein — Will (future particle, speculative or inferential)

မည်

mè — Will, shall (formal future tense particle)

ယခု

ya ku — Now, at this time, currently (formal)

အချိန်

a chein — Time, moment, period of time

အား

a — Object marker; strength, energy, power

မထိခိုက်

ma hti kite — Not to harm, not to hurt or damage

စေ

se — Causative particle: to cause, make someone do

အလွန်

a lwan — Very, extremely, exceedingly (intensifier)

ခက်ခဲ

khet khè — Difficult, hard, challenging, not easy

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

တားဆီး

ta si — To prevent, block, stop, restrain someone

အတွင်းပိုင်း

a twin pine — Interior, inside part, inner section

ထား

hta — To place, keep; perfective/resultative verb particle

တွေ့

twè — To meet, find, encounter someone or something

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; can, able to (particle)

ဒါဆို

da so — In that case, then, if so (conjunction)

ဘာ

ba — What (interrogative pronoun)

မလဲ

ma lè — Question particle implying negative or challenge

အတွက်

a twet — For, for the sake of, on behalf of

မှတ်တမ်းတင်

hmat tan tin — To record, document, register officially

ကိရိယာ

ka ri ya — Tool, instrument, device, equipment

ယူ

yu — To take, to carry, to bring along

တတ်နိုင်

tat nine — To be able to, as much as possible

သမျှ

tha mya — All, every, as much as, whatever

ကျိုးပဲ့

kyoe pè — Broken, fractured, shattered into pieces

အစားအစာ

a sa a za — Food, meals, things to eat

နံနက်

nan net — Morning, early part of the day

စော်စော

saw zaw — Early, ahead of time, in the morning early

စစ်ကျောင်း

sit kyaun — Military school, army training academy

လာ

la — To come; directional particle (toward speaker)

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense particle indicating completed action

မလုပ်

ma loat — To not do, refusal or negation of action

ဘုရားသခင်

paya tha khin — God, the Lord (Christian or general deity)

သေ

thay — To die, to be dead

အောင်

aun — So that, in order to succeed or achieve

လုပ်

loat — To do, make, perform an action

ပေး

pay — To give; benefactive particle (do for someone)

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also 'to come along'

လိုက်

lite — To follow; directional/completive verb particle

လူကြီး

lu kyi — Adult, elder, important person, senior

က

ga — Subject marker particle (nominative case)

ငါ့

nga — My, mine (possessive form of ငါ)

ချ

cha — To put down, lower, drop something downward

အခုတော့

a ku taw — Now then, at this point, right now (emphasis)

ဆက်

sset — To continue, connect, carry on doing

တာဝန်ယူ

ta wan yu — To take responsibility, be accountable for something

သည့်

thì — Relative clause marker (formal, modifying nouns)

အရာ

a ya — Thing, matter, object, affair

မှတ်မိ

hmat mi — To remember, to recall, to recollect

လည်း

lè — Also, too, as well (additive particle)

ပြီးတော့

pyi taw — And then, after that, subsequently

အိမ်

ein — House, home, residence

ပြန်

pyan — To return, go back; again (particle)

သွား

thwa — To go; directional particle away from speaker

လေ

lay — Sentence particle adding mild emphasis or tone

ဂုဒ်နိုက်

gut nite — Good night (borrowed from English)

ဆရာ

saya — Teacher, master, respected person, doctor

တုန်တုန်ယင်ယင်

toun toun yin yin — Trembling, shaking, quivering (reduplicated intensifier)

ဒါ

da — This, that; this thing (demonstrative pronoun)

ကြောင့်

kyaun — Because of, due to, owing to (causal particle)

အအေးမိ

a è mi — To catch a cold, to get chilled

စိုစွတ်

so swut — Wet, damp, soaked with water or moisture

ပြောင်ချော

pyaun chaw — Smooth, slippery, glossy surface or texture

မြေပြန့်

myay pyán — Flat ground, plain, level land or terrain

ကြည့်

kyi — To look, watch, observe, check something

ရင်း

yin — While doing, as one does; source/origin particle