Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World — Page 3

Vocabulary

နောက်တစ်ဆင့်

nauk ta hsin — Next step; the following stage in a process

အနေဖြင့်

a ne phyin — In the capacity of; as; in the manner of

ကျွန်တော်

kjana daw — I; me (formal, masculine first-person pronoun)

သည်

thi — Grammatical particle marking subject or present tense

၏

e — Possessive or linking particle meaning 'of' or 'its'

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko pain — Own; personal; belonging to oneself

အမြင်

a myin — View; opinion; perspective on a matter

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; along with (conjunction/preposition)

အလွန်

a lwan — Very; extremely; excessively (intensifier adverb)

ဆန့်ကျင်

hsankchin — To oppose; to resist; to go against something

၍

yway — Therefore; and so; thus (connective particle)

ခရီးသွား

kha yi thwa — Travel; to go on a journey or trip

မှတ်တမ်း

hmat tan — Record; documentation; written account of events

များကို

mya go — Plural object marker meaning 'the (plural) ones'

ထုတ်ဝေ

htwat way — To publish; to distribute; to release officially

ခွင့်ပြု

khwin pyu — To permit; to allow; to give permission

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of (purpose marker)

သင်

thin — You (second-person pronoun); also means 'to learn'

အခြားသူ

a hkha: thu — Another person; someone else; other people

အချို့

a chó — Some; a few; certain ones (indefinite quantifier)

တို့

to — Plural marker for pronouns and nouns

တောင်းပန်မှု

taung pan hmu — Apology; act of asking forgiveness

မှားယွင်းသော

hma ywin thaw — Incorrect; mistaken; wrong; erroneous

အကြောင်းပြချက်

a kjawng pya jat — Reason; justification; explanation given for something

များကြောင့်

mya kjawng — Because of (plural); due to multiple reasons

လွှမ်းမိုး

hlwan mó — To dominate; to influence; to have control over

ခံ

khan — To receive; to endure; to undergo something

လိုက်ရ

laik ya — To have to follow; to be obliged to comply

သည့်

thi — Relative clause marker modifying a noun

အတွက်

a twat — For; for the sake of; on behalf of

စီရင်ဆုံးဖြတ်

si yin hsone phyat — To adjudicate; to decide; to pass judgment

နိုင်မှု

nain hmu — Ability; capability; competence to do something

နည်းပါး

nè pa — Few; scarce; lacking in quantity or amount

ခြင်းကို

chin go — Nominalizer particle 'the act of' as object

တိုင်တည်

tain tè — To rely on; to depend on; to seek support

ညည်းညူ

nyi nyu — To complain; to grumble; to express dissatisfaction

မိပါသည်

mi ba thi — Polite verb ending indicating an action has occurred

အများပြည်သူ

a mya pyi thu — General public; the people; wider community

အကျိုးစီးပွား

a kjo si bwa — Interest; benefit; welfare of a person or group

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to; towards (accusative)

အကြောင်းပြု

a kjawng pyu — To use as a reason; to cite as justification

ဒဏ္ဍာရီဆန်သော

dandari hsan thaw — Legendary; mythical; resembling a legend or fable

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; multiple (noun suffix)

ညွှန်ကြားချက်

hnwan kja jat — Instruction; directive; official order or guideline

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by means of; using (instrumental particle)

ဖြစ်စေ

phyit se — Whether; causing to be; regardless (particle/causative)

နမူနာ

na mu na — Example; sample; model to illustrate a point

ပြုပြင်

pyu pyin — To repair; to reform; to fix or correct

လုံးဝ

loun waw — Completely; absolutely; entirely; not at all (with negation)

မရှိသော

ma shi thaw — Non-existent; lacking; without; that does not have

တိရစ္ဆာန်

ta yit hsan — Animal; beast; creature (non-human living thing)

မျိုးစိတ်

myo sit — Species; breed; type of living organism

တစ်မျိုး

ta myo — One type; a kind; a sort of something

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thi — Is; am; are; to be (copula verb)

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker meaning 'saying that' or 'that'

သင့်အား

thin a — To you; directed at you (second-person object)

မည်မျှ

myi hmya — How much; how many; to what extent

မကြာခဏ

ma kja khana — Often; frequently; many times

စဉ်းစားစေ

sin sa se — To cause to think; to make someone consider

လိုခဲ့ကြောင်း

lo khè kjawng — That (one) wanted or needed; reported desire

ကျေးဇူးပြု

kje zu pyu — Please; to do a favor; to be kind enough

သတိပြု

tha di pyu — To be careful; to pay attention; to take note

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; please; also (politeness marker)

ထိုသို့ပင်

hto tho pin — Similarly; likewise; in the same way

သက်သေပြ

thet the pya — To prove; to demonstrate evidence; to show proof

ခဲ့ပြီ

khè byi — Has already done; completed past action particle

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a bhe kjawng — Why; for what reason; on what grounds

ဆိုသော်

hso thaw — If one says; speaking of; when referring to

ဤ

i — This (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

သေးငယ်သော

thè ngè thaw — Small; tiny; little in size

ကျွန်း

kjun — Island; a landmass surrounded by water

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twin — On; upon; on top of (location particle)

အနည်းဆုံး

a nè hsoun — At least; the minimum; no fewer than

ရှိနေသမျှ

shi ne tha hmya — As long as (something) exists; all that exists

အဓမ္မမှု

a da ma hmu — Injustice; wrongdoing; unlawful or immoral act

ပုပ်သိုးမှု

pok tho hmu — Corruption; decay; decomposition; moral rottenness

အားလုံး

a loun — All; everyone; everything; every single one

အပြည့်အဝ

a pyí a wa — Fully; completely; to the full extent

ရပ်တန့်

yat tan — To stop; to halt; to cease an activity

သွားသည်

thwa thi — Goes; went; to go (motion verb)

တွေ့ရ

tway ya — To find; to encounter; to come across

မည်

myi — Will; future tense or expectation particle

မျှော်လင့်

hmyaw lin — To hope; to expect; to look forward to

ခဲ့သော်လည်း

khè thaw lè — Although (it) was; even though it happened

ကြည့်လော့

kji law — Look!; just look; imperative to observe something

ခြောက်လ

chout la — Six months; half a year

ကျော်သော

kjaw thaw — Famous; renowned; exceeding; over (a number)

သတိပေးချက်

tha di pe jat — Warning; notice; cautionary alert or reminder

ပြီးနောက်

byi nauk — After; afterwards; following the completion of

တွင်ပင်

twin pin — Even within; right inside; emphasizing a location

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်

yi ywè jat — Purpose; intention; objective; aim of an action

အညီ

a nyi — According to; in accordance with; as per

စာအုပ်

sa ok — Book; a bound written or printed publication

တစ်ခုတည်းသော

ta khu tè thaw — Only one; sole; the single one

အကျိုး

a kjo — Benefit; result; effect; usefulness of something

သက်ရောက်မှု

thet yok hmu — Impact; effect; influence on something

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; too; emphasis particle

ဖြစ်ပေါ်စေ

phyit paw se — To cause to arise; to bring about; to create

ခဲ့ကြောင်း

khè kjawng — That (something) occurred; reported past event

မသိရှိ

ma thi shi — Unaware; not knowing; ignorant of something

နိုင်ပါ

nain pa — Can; is able to (polite ability marker)

ပါတီ

pa ti — Party; political party or social gathering

စုဖွဲ့

su phwè — To form a group; to organize; to assemble

ဆူပူမှု

hsu pu hmu — Riot; disturbance; unrest; noisy commotion

ငြိမ်သက်

nyein thet — Peaceful; calm; quiet; tranquil state

သွားသည့်

thwa thi — That went; which is going (relative clause marker)

အခါ

a kha — When; at the time of; occasion (temporal marker)

တရားသူကြီး

ta ya thu kyi — Judge; magistrate; presiding official in court

တတ်သိ

tat thi — Knowledgeable; skilled; able to know or master

မြင်နားလည်

myin na lè — To understand; to comprehend by seeing and hearing

ပြီး

byi — Already done; and then; completion marker

တည်ကြည်

tè kji — Calm; composed; steady; mentally stable

မှန်ကန်

hman kan — Correct; right; accurate; proper

အမှုချေသူ

a hmu che thu — Defense counsel; defense attorney in a legal case

ဆင်ခြင်

hsin chin — To deliberate; to reflect carefully; to reason

သိမ်ငယ်

thein ngè — Humble; modest; feeling small or insignificant

ကာ

ka — While doing; as; connective verbal particle

ကိုယ်ကျင့်တရား

ko yin ta ya — Ethics; moral conduct; personal integrity and virtue

ရှိပြီး

shi byi — Having; existing and then (sequential particle)

ဘုံဉာဏ်

boun nyan — Common sense; general wisdom; basic understanding

အနည်းငယ်

a nè ngè — A little; a small amount; slightly

ပြည့်ဝ

pyi wa — Full; complete; abundant; well-supplied

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that; which (adjective particle)

တွင်

twin — In; at; within (locative particle)

ဥပဒေ

u pa de — Law; legislation; legal statute or rule

ပြင်ပုံ

pyin pon — How to fix; way of correcting or reforming

ပုံပြီး

pon byi — Pretending; in the guise of; as if doing

ကောင်းကင်

kaung kin — Sky; the heavens; space above the earth

ဖုံးလွှမ်းစေ

phoun hlwan se — To cause to cover; to make something envelop

ကျွန်တော့်

kjana daw — My; mine (possessive form of masculine 'I')

အား

a — Object/dative particle; to; for; strength

စာ

sa — Letter; writing; text; written language

အကြောင်းကြား

a kjawng kja — To inform; to notify; to communicate a message

ပေးစေ

pe se — To cause to give; to make (someone) provide

လိုကြောင်း

lo kjawng — That (one) wants or needs; reported desire

မျှော်မှန်း

hmyaw hman — To aspire; to anticipate; to envision a goal

ခဲ့သည်

khè thi — Did; was; past tense marker for completed action

လူငယ်

lu ngè — Young person; youth; young adult

မင်းသား

min tha — Prince; young nobleman; actor (male lead)

ပညာရေး

pyin nya yé — Education; schooling; academic learning system

အလုံးစုံ

a loun hsoun — All-inclusive; comprehensive; covering everything

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyawng le — To change; to transform; to alter or shift

ဆရာဝန်

hsa ya wun — Doctor; physician; medical professional

နှင်ထုတ်

hnin htwat — To expel; to banish; to drive out someone

အမျိုးသမီး

a myo tha mi — Woman; female; lady

သီလဂုဏ်

thi la gon — Virtue of moral conduct; quality of keeping precepts

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာ

gon thiksa — Dignity; honor; prestige; personal reputation

သစ္စာတရား

thitsa ta ya — Loyalty; truthfulness; fidelity; faithfulness

ဉာဏ်ပညာ

nyan pyin nya — Wisdom and knowledge; intellectual capability

ကြွယ်ဝ

kjwe wa — Wealthy; rich; abundant in resources or qualities

မြင့်မြတ်သော

myin myat thaw — Noble; exalted; lofty; of high moral character

ဝန်ကြီး

wun kyi — Minister; high-ranking government official

နန်းတော်

nan daw — Palace; royal residence; the royal court

ပြည်သူ့

pyi thu — Of the people; public; citizens (possessive form)

ဧည့်ခံပွဲ

e khan bwè — Reception; banquet; formal welcoming ceremony

ပေါင်းပင်

paung pin — To invite; to summon; to bring together

နှင်

hnin — To drive away; to expel; to chase out

ရှင်းလင်း

shin lin — Clear; obvious; lucid; easy to understand

သပ်ရပ်

that yat — Neat; tidy; well-organized; orderly appearance

ဉာဏ်ရည်

nyan yi — Intelligence; intellect; mental capacity

ထက်မြက်မှု

htat myat hmu — Sharpness; brilliance; being keen or clever

အကျိုးရှိမှု

a kjo shi hmu — Usefulness; being beneficial; state of having value

နားလည်မှု

na lè hmu — Understanding; comprehension; mutual understanding

ဆုချီးမြှင့်

hsu chi hmyin — To award; to bestow a prize; to honor with reward

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into noun phrases

ခံရ

khan ya — To receive; to be subjected to; to suffer

ဂဒ္ဒါ

gada — Donkey; ass (the animal)

ကဗျာ

ka bya — Poem; poetry; verse literature

စာနယ်ဇင်း

sa ne zin — Press; journalism; print media and newspapers

ရှက်ကြောက်

shet kjok — To be ashamed and afraid; fearful shame

ထိတ်လန့်

htait lan — To be startled; to be frightened; to panic

စေသူ

se thu — One who causes or sends; instigator; causer

သူတို့

thu to — They; them; those people (third-person plural)

ဝါဂွမ်း

wa gwun — Cotton; natural fiber from cotton plant

ကိုသာ

go tha — Only (object); emphasizing a specific object marker

စား

sa — To eat; to consume food

မင်ဆိပ်

min hseit — Ink; writing ink used for pens

ဖြင့်သာ

phyin tha — Only by means of; only with; solely using

လည်ချောင်း

lè chawng — Throat; neck (specifically the throat area)

ငြိမ်သက်စေ

nyein thet se — To calm down; to make peaceful; to pacify

ရမည်

ya myi — Must; shall; will have to; obligation marker

စီရင်ချက်

si yin jat — Verdict; judgment; official ruling or decision

ချ

cha — To impose; to hand down (a verdict or sentence)

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; one's own (reflexive pronoun)

သွားမည်

thwa myi — Will go; intends to go (future tense)