Grimms' Fairy Tales — Page 9

Vocabulary

သူတို့

thu-toh — They; third person plural pronoun

နန်းတော်သို့

nan-daw-thoe — To the palace; royal palace destination

ရောက်လာသောအခါ

yout-la-thaw-a-hka — When (they/one) arrived; upon arriving

မြေခွေး

myay-khway — Dog; ground dog, common domestic animal

ပြောထားသည့်

pyaw-hta-deh — That was said; previously spoken or stated

အတိုင်း

a-tine — According to; as per, in accordance with

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; object, matter, or item

အားလုံး

a-lone — Everything; all, everyone, the whole

ဖြစ်နေပြီး

pfyit-nay-byi — Already happening; currently occurring and continuing

နာရီ

na-yi — Hour; clock, watch, unit of time

တစ်ဆယ့်

tit-hsay — Eleven (prefix); used in compound numbers

နှစ်နာရီ

hnit-na-yi — Two o'clock; two hours of time

တွင်

twing — In; at, within a place or time

လူငယ်

lu-ngay — Young person; youth, young adult

သည်

thì — Grammatical particle marking subject or verb

ရေချိုး

yay-choe — To bathe; wash the body with water

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

သွားနေသော

thwa-nay-thaw — Going; currently in the process of going

မင်းသမီး

min-tha-mi — Princess; daughter of a king or noble

နှင့်

hnin — And; with, together with another

တွေ့ကာ

tway-ka — Having met; upon encountering someone

နမ်း

nan — To kiss; pressing lips to someone affectionately

လိုက်

lite — To follow; to accompany or go along

လေသည်

lay-thì — Narrative past particle; indicates completed action

ထိုအခါ

hto-a-hka — At that time; then, at that moment

သူ

thu — He/she; third person singular pronoun

အတူ

a-tu — Together; jointly, at the same time

ထွက်ပြေး

thwet-pyay — To flee; run away, escape from somewhere

သဘောတူ

tha-baw-tu — To agree; consent, be in accord with

သော်လည်း

thaw-leh — However; but, although, nevertheless

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun, one's own self

၏

(e) — Possessive particle; indicates belonging or ownership

ဖခင်

pha-chin — Father; male parent, paternal figure

ထံမှ

htan-hma — From (a person); originating from someone

နှုတ်ဆက်

hnout-hset — To greet; bid farewell, say goodbye

ခွင့်ပြု

khwin-pyu — To permit; give permission or approval

မျက်ရည်

myet-yay — Tears; liquid from eyes when crying

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many; a great number or amount

ဖြင့်

pfyin — With; by means of, using something

တောင်းလျှောက်

taung-hlout — To request; plead, ask permission humbly

စတင်၍

sa-tin-yway — Beginning; starting from, commencing an action

ငြင်းဆန်

ngyin-hsan — To refuse; reject, decline a request

ပို၍

po-yway — More; increasingly, even more so

ငိုကြွေး

ngo-kway — To weep; cry loudly, sob bitterly

ကာ

ka — Continuing particle; while doing, transitional connector

ခြေရင်း

chay-yin — Foot of the bed; lower end of bed

လဲလျောင်း

leh-lyaung — To lie down; recline on a surface

သောအခါ

thaw-a-hka — When; at the time that something happens

နောက်ဆုံး

nout-zone — Finally; last, ultimately, in the end

လိုက်သည်

lite-thì — Followed; went along with, accompanied

သို့သော်

thoe-thaw — However; but, yet, on the other hand

အိမ်

ain — House; home, dwelling place

သို့

thoe — To; toward, in the direction of

ရောက်

yout — To arrive; reach a destination or place

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that, which, who

အခိုက်

a-khite — Moment; instant, brief period of time

အစောင့်

a-zaung — Guard; watchman, one who keeps watch

များ

mya — Plural marker; many, multiple, more than one

နိုးထ

no-hta — To wake up; rise from sleep

တဖန်

ta-pfan — Again; once more, on another occasion

အကျဉ်းသား

a-kyin-tha — Prisoner; captive, one held in confinement

ဖမ်းမိ

pfan-mi — To capture; catch, successfully apprehend someone

ခံလိုက်

khan-lite — To receive; undergo, be subjected to something

ရသည်

ya-thì — To get; receive, obtain something successfully

ဘုရင်

pfa-yin — King; monarch, ruler of a kingdom

ထံသို့

htan-thoe — To (a person); toward someone specifically

ဆောင်ယူ

hsaung-yu — To bring; carry along, take to a place

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix; turns verb into noun form

ခံရပြီး

khan-ya-byi — Having received; after being subjected to something

က

ga — Subject marker particle; indicates agent of action

ရှစ်ရက်

shit-yet — Eight days; a period of eight days

အတွင်း

a-twing — Within; inside, during a period of time

ငါ

nga — I; first person singular informal pronoun

ပြတင်းပေါက်

pya-tin-pout — Window; opening in a wall for light

မှ

hma — From; out of, originating at a point

မြင်ကွင်း

myin-kwin — View; scenery, visible scene from a point

ကို

go — Object marker; indicates direct object of verb

ပိတ်ဆို့

pite-hsoe — To block; obstruct, seal off an opening

နေသော

nay-thaw — That is residing; currently staying somewhere

တောင်ကုန်း

taung-kone — Hill; small mountain, elevated ground

တူးဖော်

tu-pfaw — To excavate; dig out, unearth something buried

ဖယ်ရှား

pfeh-sha — To remove; clear away, get rid of

မှသာ

hma-tha — Only from/then; only if, only by doing

သမီးတော်

tha-mi-daw — Royal daughter; princess, noble daughter

ရမည်

ya-meh — Will receive; must obtain, shall get

မဟုတ်ပါက

ma-hout-pa-ga — If not; otherwise, in the absence of

ဘယ်တော့မှ

beh-daw-hma — Never; not at any time, ever

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Not; is not, negation of identity

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle; said that, as follows

ဆိုလေသည်

hso-lay-thì — Said; stated, uttered in narrative form

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; at present, currently, at this time

ထို

hto — That; demonstrative pronoun referring to something

ကမ္ဘာ

ga-ba — World; earth, the entire globe

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One (thing); a single unit or item

လုံး

lone — Whole; entire, all of something

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed, emphatic particle for emphasis

မနိုင်

ma-nine — Cannot; unable to, incapable of doing

အောင်

aung — So that; in order to achieve a result

ကြီးမား

ji-ma — Great; enormous, very large in scale

လှသည်

hla-thì — Is beautiful; pretty, attractive in appearance

ခုနစ်ရက်

khu-nit-yet — Seven days; a week, seven-day period

တိုင်တိုင်

tine-tine — Throughout; all the way to the end

အလုပ်

a-lout — Work; job, task, employment

လုပ်ခဲ့

lout-kheh — Did; worked, performed a past action

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely, excessively, to a high degree

နည်းပါး

ni-pa — Little; few, scarce, insufficient in amount

စွာသာ

zwa-tha — Only a little; merely, just barely so

ပြီးစီး

byi-si — Completed; finished, accomplished successfully

ရောက်လာ

yout-la — Arrived; came to a place, reached destination

အိပ်ချောင်း

ait-chaung — Bedroom; sleeping room, chamber for rest

နေ

nay — To stay; live, reside, remain somewhere

သင့်

thìn — Should; ought to, appropriate for you

အတွက်

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

လုပ်ပေး

lout-pay — To do for; perform a task for someone

မည်

meh — Will; future tense marker, shall do

နံနက်

nan-nit — Morning; early part of the day

နိုး

no — To wake; become awake from sleep

လာသောအခါ

la-thaw-a-hka — When (one) comes; upon someone's arrival

ပျောက်

pyout — To disappear; vanish, be lost or gone

သွားပြီ

thwa-byi — Already gone; has left, departed already

ဖြစ်သည်

pfyit-thì — Is; exists, to be something factually

ထို့ကြောင့်

hto-jaung — Therefore; because of that, for that reason

ဝမ်းမြောက်

wun-myout — Joyful; glad, delighted, feeling happiness

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix; manner particle, -ly suffix

သွားကာ

thwa-ka — Having gone; after going, upon departing

ပြီး

byi — After; finished, done, completing an action

သောကြောင့်

thaw-jaung — Because; due to, for the reason that

အား

a — To; indirect object marker, toward someone

ပေးရမည်

pay-ya-meh — Must give; is required to present something

ပြော

pyaw — To speak; say, tell, talk to someone

ကတိ

ga-di — Promise; vow, pledge, commitment made verbally

ထိန်းသိမ်း

htain-thein — To preserve; maintain, keep carefully protected

မနေ

ma-nay — Not staying; without remaining, not resting

ရပ်ငြိမ်း

yat-nyein — To stop; cease, come to a halt

လိုက်ရပြီး

lite-ya-byi — Has had to follow; ended up going along

တို့

toh — Plural marker for people; we, they, us

ထွက်သွား

thwet-thwa — To go out; leave, exit and depart

ကြ

ja — Plural verb particle; action done collectively

သူ့

thu — His/her; possessive form of third person pronoun

မြင်း

myin — Horse; large four-legged riding animal

ငှက်

nget — Bird; winged feathered flying animal

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun near speaker

သုံးမျိုး

thone-myo — Three kinds; three types or varieties

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya-naw-toh — We; first person plural formal pronoun

အယ်

eh — Exclamatory particle; expressing surprise or emphasis