Grimms' Fairy Tales — Page 3

Vocabulary

နာရီသံ

na-yi thán — Sound of a clock or bell chiming

တစ်ဆယ့်နှစ်ချက်

tiq-hsayh-hnaq-chèt — Twelve strikes or beats

တီးသောအခါ

tí-thaw-akhá — When (something) is struck or played

သူသည်

thu-thì — He/she (subject marker attached)

လေထုတွင်

lé-htù-twìn — In the air; within the atmosphere

ဆူညံသောသံကို

sù-nyàn-thaw-thán-gò — The loud, noisy sound (object marker)

ကြားရပြီး

kyà-ya-byí — Having heard; after hearing a sound

သန့်စင်သောရွှေဖြင့်

thán-sin-thaw-shwè-phryin — Made of or with pure gold

ဖြစ်သောငှက်တစ်ကောင်

phyit-thaw-hnget-tiq-gáun — A bird that is (made of something)

ပျံဝင်လာသည်

pyàn-wìn-lá-thì — Came flying in; flew inside

ထိုငှက်သည်

htò-hnget-thì — That bird (as subject of sentence)

သစ်သီးတစ်လုံးကို

thiq-thí-tiq-lóun-gò — One fruit (as object of verb)

နှုတ်သီးဖြင့်

hnout-thí-phryin — With its beak; using the beak

ကိုက်ယူနေစဉ်

kite-yù-nè-zin — While biting and holding something

ဥယျာဉ်မှူး

u-yín-hmú — Head gardener; garden superintendent

၏

è — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or 's

သားသည်

thá-thì — The son (as subject of sentence)

ခုန်ထကာ

khoun-hta-gá — Having jumped up; leaping up suddenly

မြှားတစ်စင်း

hmyá-tiq-zín — One arrow

ပစ်လိုက်သည်

pyiq-lite-thì — Shot; threw; fired at something

သို့သော်

thò-thaw — However; but; nevertheless

မြှားသည်

hmyá-thì — The arrow (as subject)

ငှက်ကို

hnget-gò — The bird (as object of verb)

မထိခိုက်ဘဲ

ma-htiq-kite-bɛ — Without hitting or injuring; missing entirely

အမြီးမှ

a-myí-hmà — From the tail; originating at the tail

ရွှေမွေးတစ်ချောင်းသာ

shwè-mwé-tiq-jáun-thá — Only one golden feather

ကြွေကျကာ

kwé-kyà-gá — Having fallen off; dropping down

ပျံသွားလေသည်

pyàn-thwá-lè-thì — Flew away; departed by flying

နံနက်တွင်

nàn-nèt-twìn — In the morning; during the morning

ထိုရွှေမွေးကို

htò-shwè-mwé-gò — That golden feather (as object)

ဘုရင်ထံ

phu-yìn-htán — To the king; toward the king

ဆောင်ယူသွားပြီး

hsáun-yù-thwá-byí — Having taken and brought to someone

ပရိသတ်အားလုံးကို

pa-yi-tháq-á-lóun-gò — All the audience; all assembled people

စုရုံးခေါ်ယူလိုက်သည်

su-yóun-khaw-yù-lite-thì — Gathered and called everyone together

လူတိုင်းက

lù-táin-ga — Everyone; every person (as subject)

၎င်းသည်

di-goun-thì — It; that thing (formal subject pronoun)

နိုင်ငံ

nain-ngàn — Country; nation; kingdom

ဥစ္စာဓနအားလုံးထက်

u-sa-da-na-á-lóun-hteq — Than all the wealth and possessions

တန်ဖိုးရှိသည်ဟု

tan-phó-shì-thì-hò — Is valuable; has worth (reported speech)

သဘောတူကြသည်

tha-baw-tù-kyà-thì — Agreed together; reached a consensus

ဘုရင်က

phu-yìn-ga — The king (as subject of statement)

မွေးတစ်ချောင်းသည်

mwé-tiq-jáun-thì — One feather (as subject of sentence)

ငါ့အတွက်

ngá-a-tweq — For me; for my benefit

အသုံးမဝင်ဘူး

a-thóun-ma-wìn-bú — Not useful; of no use to someone

ငါသည်

ngá-thì — I (first person, subject marker attached)

ငှက်တစ်ကောင်လုံး

hnget-tiq-gáun-lóun — The entire whole bird; the complete bird

ရှိရမည်

shì-ya-mì — Must have; must possess something

ဟု

hò — Quotation particle; said that; thus

မိန့်တော်မူသည်

mein-daw-mù-thì — Royally declared; the king proclaimed formally

ထိုအခါ

htò-a-khá — At that time; then; at that moment

သားကြီးသည်

thá-gyí-thì — The eldest son (as subject)

ထွက်ခွာကာ

htwet-khwá-gá — Having departed; setting off from a place

ရွှေငှက်ကို

shwè-hnget-gò — The golden bird (as object)

အလွယ်တကူ

a-lwɛ-ta-gù — Easily; without difficulty; effortlessly

တွေ့မည်ဟု

twé-mì-hò — Thinking will find; expecting to meet

ထင်ကာ

htin-gá — Thinking; assuming; having assumed so

သွားလေသည်

thwá-lè-thì — Went; departed (narrative past tense)

နည်းငယ်သာ

né-ngɛ-thá — Only a little; just a short distance

သွားသောအခါ

thwá-thaw-a-khá — When he had gone; after going a while

တောတစ်ခုသို့

taw-tiq-khù-thò — To a forest; toward one particular forest

ရောက်ရှိပြီး

yauq-shì-byí — Having arrived at; having reached a place

တောစပ်တွင်

taw-sáq-twìn — At the forest edge; on the forest border

မြေခွေးတစ်ကောင်

myè-khwé-tiq-gáun — One fox; a single fox animal

ထိုင်နေသည်ကို

htain-nè-thì-gò — Sitting there (as object of seeing)

မြင်ရသည်

myìn-ya-thì — Could see; was able to see something

ထို့ကြောင့်

htò-kyáun — Therefore; because of that; thus

လေးကို

lé-gò — The bow (weapon, as object)

ကိုင်ကာ

kain-gá — Having held; holding in one's hands

ပစ်ရန်

pyiq-yan — In order to shoot; for the purpose of shooting

အဆင်သင့်

a-hsin-thìn — Ready; prepared; in a state of readiness

ပြင်ဆင်လိုက်သည်

pyìn-hsin-lite-thì — Prepared; got ready to do something

မြေခွေးက

myè-khwé-ga — The fox (as subject of speaking)

ငါ့ကို

ngá-gò — Me (first person object, informal)

မပစ်နဲ့

ma-pyiq-nɛ — Don't shoot me; please don't fire

ငါ

ngá — I; me (informal first person pronoun)

သင့်ကို

thìn-gò — You (as object, polite second person)

ကောင်းသောအကြံဉာဏ်

káun-thaw-a-kyán-nyán — Good advice; a useful piece of wisdom

ပေးမည်

pé-mì — Will give; intends to give something

သင်

thìn — You (polite second person pronoun)

ကိစ္စကို

keiq-sa-gò — The matter; the business (as object)

ငါသိသည်

ngá-thì-thì — I know; I am aware of something

သင်သည်

thìn-thì — You (polite, as subject of sentence)

ရှာဖွေလိုကြောင်းလည်း

shá-phwè-lò-kyáun-lɛ — That you wish to search for something also

ပြောလေသည်

pyaw-lè-thì — Said; spoke (narrative past tense marker)