Grimms' Fairy Tales — Page 7

Vocabulary

နောက်နေ့မနက်

nauk né manek — The following morning; next day's morning

တရားရုံး

tayà youn — Court of law; place where legal cases are heard

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; also present tense marker

သူ့ကို

thù go — To him/her; object pronoun for third person

စီရင်

sì yin — To judge, rule, or pass judgment on someone

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing something

အစည်းအဝေး

a-si a-wé — Meeting, assembly, or gathering of people

ကျင်းပ

kyìn ba — To hold, organize, or conduct an event

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker indicating completed action

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, matter, or subject; general noun classifier

အားလုံး

à loun — All, everyone, everything; entirety of a group

ကို

go — Object marker particle; indicates direct object

ကြားနာ

kyà na — To hear a case; listen to testimony in court

ပြီးနောက်

pyì nauk — After; following the completion of something

လေ

lé — Sentence-final particle adding emphasis or softness

သလို

tha lo — Like, as if, similar to something else

မြန်မြန်ဆန်ဆန်

myan myan hsàn hsàn — Quickly, swiftly; in a fast manner

ပြေး

pyé — To run; to flee quickly from a place

နိုင်

naìng — Can, to be able to; also to win

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that which, who does

ရွှေ

shwé — Gold; the precious yellow metal

မြင်း

myìn — Horse; the large domesticated riding animal

မင်းကြီး

mìn gyì — Great king; high-ranking ruler or monarch

ထံ

htàn — To, toward; indicating direction toward a person

ဆောင်ယူ

hsaùng yù — To bring, carry, or take something along

မလာ

ma lá — Did not come; negation of coming

မချင်း

ma chìn — Until; unless; up to the point when

သေဒဏ်

thé dan — Death penalty; capital punishment sentence

ချမှတ်

cha hmak — To impose, prescribe, or lay down a sentence

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into noun forms

ခံရ

khàn ya — To receive, suffer, or be subjected to something

မည်

mì — Future tense marker; will, shall do something

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'that'

စီရင်ချက်

sì yin chet — Verdict, judgment, or ruling of a court

ချ

cha — To hand down, impose, or deliver a ruling

သို့သော်

thò thaw — However, but; conjunction indicating contrast

သူ

thù — He, she, they; third person pronoun

ထို

htò — That, those; demonstrative pronoun for distance

သို့

thò — To, toward; directional particle indicating destination

ပြုလုပ်

pyu louk — To do, perform, or carry out an action

ပါက

pa ka — If; conditional particle meaning if something occurs

ငှက်

nghet — Bird; any feathered flying creature

၏

é — Possessive or genitive particle meaning 'of' or 's

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko pain — Own, personal; belonging to oneself exclusively

အဖြစ်

a hpyit — As, in the capacity of; in the form of

ပေးအပ်

pé ak — To give, hand over, or entrust to someone

ဆို

hsò — To say, mean; quotative verb also meaning 'called'

ထို့နောက်

htò nauk — After that; subsequently; then afterward

နှမြောမြည်တမ်း

hna myaw myì tàn — To wail, lament, or cry out in grief

ကာ

ka — Continuative particle linking two simultaneous actions

အလွန်

a lwun — Very, extremely; to a great degree

စိတ်ပျက်

seit pyet — Disappointed, discouraged; feeling let down emotionally

အားငယ်

à ngé — Feeling helpless, weak, or lacking confidence

သည့်

thì — Relative clause marker; attributive form of သည်

နှင့်

hnìng — And, with; conjunction joining nouns or clauses

တစ်ဖန်

ta hpan — Once again, once more; repeating a previous action

ခရီး

kha yì — Journey, trip, or travel to a destination

ထွက်

thwet — To go out, leave, or depart from somewhere

အခိုက်

a khout — Moment, instant; a short period of time

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit sswé — Friend, companion; a person one is friendly with

မြေခွေး

myé khwé — Dog; domestic canine animal

ကြိုဆို

kyò hsò — To welcome, greet, or receive someone warmly

ဤ

ì — This; near demonstrative pronoun (formal register)

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, or tell something to someone

ကျွန်တော်

kyun daw — I, me; formal first-person pronoun used by males

အကြံဉာဏ်

a kyan nyan — Advice, suggestion, or wise counsel offered helpfully

နား

nà — Ear; also to stop, rest, or listen

မထောင်

ma htaùng — Did not listen; failure to heed advice

ကြောင့်

kyaùng — Because of, due to; causal postpositional marker

ယခု

ya khu — Now, at this moment; the present time

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative pronoun for asking about things

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, become, happen; existential or copula verb

သွား

thwà — To go; to move away from the speaker

မင်း

mìn — You (informal); also king or ruler

တွေ့မြင်

twé myìn — To see, encounter, or come across something

ပြီ

pyì — Already; completion particle indicating finished action

ဆိုတော့လေ

hsò daw lé — So then; therefore; discourse connector particle

အတိုင်း

a tite — According to, in accordance with, as per

လုပ်

louk — To do, make, or perform an action

လျှင်

hlyin — If, when; conditional or temporal connector

ရှာဖွေ

shà bwé — To search for, look for, or seek something

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; also ability marker 'can'

ဆက်

hset — To continue, connect, or carry on doing

ပြောပြ

pyaw pya — To tell, explain, or describe to someone

မြင်းတဲ

myìn té — Horse stable; shelter where horses are kept

ထဲတွင်

htè dwìn — Inside, within; located in the interior of

ရပ်

yat — To stop, halt, or stand still in place

နေ

né — To stay, live, remain; also continuative aspect marker

နန်းတော်

nàn daw — Royal palace; the residence of a king

ရောက်

yauk — To arrive, reach, or get to a destination

အထိ

a htì — Until, up to, as far as a point

တည့်တည့်

tè tè — Directly, straight; going without detour or deviation

တွင်

dwìn — In, at, within; locative particle for places

မြင်းထိန်း

myìn htein — Groom, stableman; person who tends to horses

အိပ်ပျော်

eit pyaw — To be fast asleep; in a deep sleep

ဟောက်ငိုက်

hauk ngout — To snore; making noise while sleeping deeply

ပျော်

pyaw — Happy, joyful; feeling pleasure or contentment

လိမ့်

lèin — Probability marker; likely will happen in future

တိတ်တဆိတ်

teit ta hseit — Quietly, secretly, stealthily; without making noise

ခေါ်ဆောင်

khaw hsaùng — To lead, escort, or take someone somewhere

အနီး

a né — Near, close to; in the vicinity of something

ရှိ

shì — To exist, be present, have; existential verb

ဇိုင်း

zain — Saddle cloth or blanket placed under a saddle

မတင်

ma tin — Without placing or putting on; not mounted

ဘဲ

bè — Without doing; negative gerund particle

ဟောင်းနွမ်း

haùng nwùn — Old and worn out; shabby, tattered, dilapidated

သားရေ

thà yé — Leather, animal hide or skin material

သာ

thà — Only, just; restrictive particle limiting a statement

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, upon; surface locative particle

တင်

tin — To place on, load, or mount onto something

သေချာ

thé cha — Certain, sure, careful; to make sure of something

သတိထား

tha tì htà — To be careful, pay attention, take heed

သား

thà — Son; male offspring; also softening particle

အမြီး

a myì — Tail; the appendage at an animal's rear

ပေါ်တွင်

paw dwìn — On, upon, on top of a surface

ထိုင်

htaìng — To sit, to be seated in a position

ပြီး

pyì — After finishing; completion connector between clauses

သူတို့

thù dò — They, them; third person plural pronoun

နှစ်ဦး

hnit ù — Two people; a pair of individuals

ဆံပင်

hsàn bin — Hair; strands of hair on one's head

များ

myà — Plural marker; many, much, a lot of

ထဲ

htè — Inside, within; informal locative particle

ဆူညံ

hsù nyan — Noisy, loud, clamorous; making a lot of sound

သစ်ပင်ကိုင်း

thit pin kaìn — Tree branch; a limb extending from a tree

ကျောက်တုံး

kyauk toun — Stone, rock; a solid lump of stone

ကျော်

kyaw — To pass over, cross, or go beyond something

ကြ

kyà — Plural verb particle; indicates group action collectively

ကောင်းမွန်စွာ

kaùng mwun zwa — Well, properly, in a good or excellent manner

ဖြစ်ပေါ်

hpyit paw — To occur, arise, come about, take place

လက်

let — Hand; the body part at the end of arm

ကြည့်

kyì — To look, watch, or observe something carefully

အခါ

a kha — Time, occasion, when; temporal noun or particle

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; locative particle; also imperative marker

ဝမ်းနည်း

wùn né — Sad, sorrowful; feeling grief or unhappiness

ဖွယ်ကောင်း

hpwè kaùng — Worthy of, deserving of; merit-indicating particle

ထင်မြင်

htin myìn — To think, believe, or have an opinion about

ကောင်း

kaùng — Good, fine, excellent; positive quality or virtue

ပေး

pé — To give; benefactive verb meaning to do for

ထိုက်တန်

htout tan — To deserve, be worthy of, merit something