Grimms' Fairy Tales — Page 4

Vocabulary

သင်

thin — You (second person pronoun, formal)

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; also 'is/am/are'

ညနေ

nya-nay — Evening, late afternoon time of day

ပိုင်း

pine — Section, part, or division of something

တွင်

twin — In, at, within (locative particle)

ရွာ

ywa — Village, small rural settlement

တစ်

tit — One (the number one, cardinal)

သို့

thó — To, toward (directional particle)

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, reach a destination

မည်

myi — Future tense marker particle

ထို

htó — That, those (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place, location, spot

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker particle (who/which/that)

အခါ

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

ဦး

ù — Head; honorific title for men; one (classifier)

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with (conjunction/particle)

မျက်

myat — Eye (used in compound words)

နှာ

hna — Nose; used in compounds like မျက်နှာ (face)

ချင်း

chin — Each other; among; Chin (ethnic group)

ဆိုင်

hsine — Shop, store, establishment selling goods

တည်

ti — To be situated, established, located

ရှိ

shì — To exist, to have, to be present

ဧည့်

é — Guest, visitor (used in compounds)

ကြို

kjó — To welcome, receive; before, in advance

ဆောင်

hsoun — To carry, bear; to perform, conduct

နှစ်

hnit — Year; two (the number two)

ခု

khu — General classifier for objects; now, currently

ကို

kó — Object marker particle (accusative case)

မြင်

myin — To see, to observe visually

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; able to; resultative particle

လိမ့်

lain — Probability marker; will likely happen

ကြည့်

kjì — To look at, watch, observe carefully

သာ

tha — Only, just; emphatic/restrictive particle

လှပ

hla-ba — Beautiful, attractive, pretty in appearance

ပြီး

pjí — After, finished, completed (aspect marker)

ချစ်

chit — To love, feel affection toward someone

စရာ

sa-ya — Worth doing; nominalizer suggesting tendency

ကောင်း

kaun — Good, nice, fine, excellent

မ

ma — Negation prefix (not, don't)

ဝင်

win — To enter, go in, come inside

သော်

thaw — Although, but, however (concessive conjunction)

အခြား

a-chá — Other, another, different, else

သင့်

thin — Should, ought to; your (possessive)

အား

á — Object/dative particle; strength, power

ဆင်း

hsin — To descend, go down, come down

ရဲ

yè — Brave, bold; possessive/topic particle (colloquial)

ယုတ်

yout — Low, inferior, base, degraded in quality

ညံ့

nhan — Poor quality, substandard, mediocre

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

ထင်

htin — To think, believe, suppose, assume

နိုင်

nine — Can, able to; to win, to be capable

လည်း

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

ည

nya — Night, nighttime

ဘက်

bet — Side, direction, toward (noun/particle)

အနား

a-ná — Near, beside, close to (locative noun)

ယူ

yù — To take, carry, bring along

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence-final particle; also, too

သား

thá — Son; softening/affectionate particle

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, one's own (reflexive pronoun)

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, feelings, mental state

ထဲ

htè — Inside, within (locative particle)

ဤ

ì — This (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

ကဲ့

kè — Like, similar to (used in ကဲ့သို့)

တိရစ္ဆာန်

ta-yit-hsan — Animal, beast, creature (general term)

ကောင်

kaun — Classifier for animals; creature, individual

ကိစ္စ

kit-sa — Matter, affair, issue, business, concern

ပတ်

pat — Week; to surround, go around, wrap

သက်

thet — Life, age; to affect, concern

၍

(yway) — And so, therefore (literary connective particle)

သည့်

thì — Relative clause marker (attributive form)

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, matter, object, item

သိ

thì — To know, to be aware of

နည်း

né — Method, way; few, little (in quantity)

တွေး

twé — To think, ponder, reflect, contemplate

တော

taw — Forest, jungle, wilderness area

လိုက်

lait — To follow; directional verb complement (go/come)

ထို့

htó — Therefore, thus (used in ထို့ကြောင့်)

ကြောင့်

kjoun — Because of, due to, owing to

သူ

thu — He, she, him, her (third person pronoun)

မြေ

mjay — Earth, ground, land, soil

ခွေး

khwé — Dog (domestic animal)

ထံ

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

မြှား

hmjá — Arrow (projectile shot from a bow)

ပစ်

pit — To throw, shoot, fire, discard

လွဲ

lwè — To miss (a target), to be wrong

ချော်

chaw — To slip, slide accidentally on a surface

သွား

thwá — To go; teeth (noun); directional particle

၏

(é) — Possessive/genitive particle (literary/formal)

အမြီး

a-mjí — Tail (of an animal)

ကျော

kjaw — Back (of body); to pass, exceed

ပေါ်

po — On top of, above, on (locative)

မှ

hma — From, since; only then (conditional particle)

မတ်

mat — March (month); upright, straight posture

ထောင်

htoun — Thousand; prison; to stand upright, erect

ကာ

ka — While, as (simultaneous action particle)

သစ်

thit — New; wood, timber, tree (in compounds)

ပြေး

pjé — To run, flee, escape quickly

နောက်

nout — After, behind, back, next

လမ်း

lán — Road, path, street, way

ကြောင်း

kjoun — That (complementizer); line, row; cat's...

အတိုင်း

a-tine — According to, as, in the same way

လာ

la — To come; directional particle (coming toward)

နေ

nay — To live, stay, be (progressive aspect)

လူ

lù — Person, human being, people

များ

mjá — Many, plural marker; more (comparative)

သီချင်း

thí-chin — Song, music piece for singing

ဆို

hsó — To say, sing; quotative verb

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from (colloquial)

ခုန်

khun — To jump, leap, hop, bounce

ပွဲ

pwè — Event, festival, ceremony, performance

စား

sá — To eat, consume food

ကြ

kja — Plural marker; together (reciprocal particle)

မှာ

hma — At, in; to order; (spoken topic marker)

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very, extremely, exceedingly (intensifier)

ညစ်

nyit — Dirty, filthy, unclean, polluted

ပုံ

poun — Picture, image, shape, form

ပေ

pay — Foot (unit); sentence particle (assertion)

ငါ

nga — I, me (first person, informal/blunt)

မိုက်

mait — Stupid, foolish, dull-witted (informal)

မဲ

mè — Vote; dark, black; without (colloquial)

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen, occur

ပြော

pjaw — To speak, say, tell, talk

ကျိုး

kjó — Broken, cracked; reason, cause (in compounds)

နွမ်း

nwán — Weak, exhausted, wilted, faded

အိမ်

ein — House, home, dwelling place

ဆွဲ

hswe — To pull, drag, attract, draw

မှု

hmu — Nominalizer suffix; matter, act, case

စွန့်

swun — To abandon, give up, renounce

ခွာ

khwa — To leave, depart, separate from

လျှင်

hljin — If, when (conditional particle)

သပ်

thut — Neat, tidy, clean, orderly in appearance

ရပ်

yat — To stop, stand still, halt

ကြိုက်

kjait — To like, prefer, be fond of

သောက်

thout — To drink (liquid)

ငှက်

hngat — Bird (general term for birds)

နိုင်ငံ

nine-ngan — Country, nation, state

မေ့

mé — To forget, to not remember

လေ

lay — Wind, air; sentence particle (mild assertion)

အချိန်

a-chein — Time, period, moment, schedule

တော်

taw — Skilled, able; royal honorific prefix

ကြာ

kja — To take time, be long (duration)

အကြီး

a-kjí — The biggest, the largest (superlative noun)

ဆုံး

hsoun — Most (superlative); to end, to die

ပြန်

pjan — To return, go back; again (adverb)

ဘဲ

bè — Without doing; duck (animal)

သူ့

thú — His, her, its (third person possessive)

အကြောင်း

a-kjoun — About, concerning, reason, cause

သတင်း

tha-din — News, information, report, message

စုံ

soun — Complete, full, even number; a pair

ရာ

ya — Hundred; place, position (nominalizer)

မျှ

hmya — As much as, equal to, only (particle)

ကြား

kjá — Between, among; to hear; interval

ဒုတိယ

du-ti-ya — Second (ordinal number, second in order)

ထွက်

htwet — To exit, go out, come out

တူ

tù — Same, similar, alike, equal

ညီ

nyì — Equal, level; younger sibling (brother/sister)

ကြုံ

kjoun — To encounter, experience, come across

တွေ့

twé — To meet, find, encounter, discover