Heart of Darkness — Page 2

Vocabulary

ကြာရှည်သော

kya shay thaw — long-lasting, enduring over a long period

ကွဲကွာမှု

kwet kwa hmu — separation, the state of being apart

ကာလများ

ka la myar — periods of time, eras

တွင်

twinn — in, at, within (location marker)

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya note toe — we, us (formal first person plural)

၏

ei — possessive or linking particle (of, 's)

နှလုံးသား

hna lone tha — heart, the emotional or spiritual center

များကို

myar go — plural object marker (the... ones, them)

ချိတ်ဆက်

chet set — to connect, to link together

ထားသည့်

hta thit — which has been kept or placed (relative marker)

အပြင်

a pyin — outside, in addition to, beyond

၎င်း

da gin — it, that (formal pronoun referring to previously mentioned)

သည်

thit — topic or verb marker (is, does, formal)

အချင်းချင်း

a chin chin — each other, one another, mutually

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat lan — story, narrative, plot

သာမက

tha ma kat — not only, besides, furthermore

ယုံကြည်ချက်

yone kyi chet — belief, conviction, faith in something

ပါ

pa — also, too; polite sentence particle

သည်းခံ

thit khan — to endure, tolerate, bear patiently

နိုင်စေသည့်

nine say thit — which enables or allows one to do

အကျိုး

a kyoe — benefit, result, effect, consequence

သက်ရောက်မှု

thet yout hmu — impact, influence, effect on something

ရှိခဲ့

shee khe — there was, existed (past tense)

ရှေ့နေကြီး

shay nay ji — senior lawyer, prominent attorney

အသက်ကြီး

a thet ji — elderly, advanced in age

သူများ

thu myar — they, those people (third person plural)

ထဲတွင်

htet twinn — inside, within (a place or group)

အကောင်းဆုံး

a kaung zone — the best, finest, most excellent

သောသူ

thaw thu — the person who, one who (relative clause)

သူ

thu — he, she, that person (third person)

နှစ်ပေါင်း

hnit paung — total number of years, years combined

များစွာ

myar zwa — many, a great number, plenty of

နှင့်

hnin — and, with, along with (conjunction)

အကျင့်

a kyin — habit, practice, moral conduct

သီလ

thila — moral precepts, virtue, ethical discipline

များ

myar — plural marker; many, numerous

ကြောင့်

kyaung — because of, due to (causal particle)

သင်္ဘော

thin baw — ship, large boat, vessel

ဖြင်

phyin — with, by means of (short instrumental particle)

ခေါင်းအုံး

khaung own — pillow, cushion for the head

တစ်လုံး

tit lone — one piece, one unit (classifier)

တည်းကို

teh go — only, alone, solely (emphatic particle)

ပိုင်ဆိုင်

pine sine — to own, possess, have ownership of

ကာ

ka — while, and then (continuative verb particle)

အခင်း

a khin — bedding, mat, floor spread

တစ်ခု

tit khu — one thing, a single item

တည်း

teh — only, just, alone (limiting particle)

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twinn — on top of, upon, on the surface of

လဲလျောင်း

leh lyaung — to lie down, recline on a surface

နေသည်

nay thit — is staying, is living, continuous present

စာရင်းကိုင်

sa yin kine — accountant, bookkeeper, financial record keeper

ထည့်ထားသော

htet hta thaw — which has been placed or put in

သေတ္တာ

thet ta — box, chest, container, case

တစ်ခုကို

tit khu go — one thing (as object, accusative)

ထုတ်ယူ

htoat yu — to take out, extract, remove from

ထားပြီး

hta pyi — having placed or done (sequential particle)

ဖြစ်ကာ

phyit ka — being, having become (continuative connector)

တုံး

tone — block, chunk, thick piece of material

တည်ဆောက်မှု

tit saout hmu — construction, building, act of building

ပုံစံ

pon san — form, shape, pattern, style

ဖြင့်

phyint — with, by means of (instrumental particle)

ကစား

ka zar — to play, engage in a game or sport

နောက်ပိုင်း

naout pine — afterward, later, after a certain time

ခြေချင်း

chay jin — ankle, the joint connecting foot and leg

ဆယ်

hsay — ten (the number 10)

မှီလျက်

hmi lyet — leaning against, resting upon something

ထိုင်

htine — to sit, to be seated

သူ့

thu — his, her, their (possessive third person)

နှစ်ဝင်

hnit win — to enjoy, to find pleasure in something

နေသော

nay thaw — who is staying, residing (relative form)

ပါးများ

par myar — cheeks (plural), sides of the face

အဝါရောင်

a wa yaung — yellow color, yellow-colored

အသားအရည်

a tha a yay — complexion, skin tone, texture of skin

ဖြောင့်သော

phyaung thaw — straight, upright, not curved

ကျောရိုး

kyaw yoe — spine, backbone, vertebral column

ကဲ့သို့သော

keh thoe thaw — such as, like, similar to (comparative)

အသွင်အပြင်

a thwin a pyin — appearance, looks, outward form

ရှိပြီး

shee pyi — having, existing, and then (sequential)

လက်မောင်း

let maung — forearm, the lower part of the arm

ချလျက်

cha lyet — placing down, lowering (continuative action)

လက်ဝါး

let war — palm of the hand

အပြင်ဘက်

a pyin bet — outside, the outer side or direction

လှည့်

hleh — to turn, rotate, spin around

ရုပ်တု

yoat tu — statue, idol, figurine, sculpted image

တူ

tu — similar, alike, resembling something else

ဒါရိုက်တာ

da yite ta — director (film or stage director)

ကျောက်ဆူး

kyout su — spine protrusion, pointed rock; cactus thorn

ကောင်းစွာ

kaung zwa — well, properly, in a good manner

ကိုင်

kine — to hold, grasp, carry in hand

ထားကြောင်း

hta kyaung — indicating that something has been done or kept

သဘောကျ

tha baw kya — to like, appreciate, be pleased with

သို့

thoe — to, toward, in the direction of

လာရောက်

la yout — to come, to arrive at a place

ပြီး

pyi — after, finished, done (sequential particle)

အကြား

a kyar — between, among, in the middle of

ထိုင်ချ

htine cha — to sit down, to take a seat

လိုက်သည်

lite thit — followed, went along, complied with

ပျင်းရိ

pyin yi — lazy, bored, lethargic, feeling unmotivated

စွာ

zwa — adverbial suffix meaning 'fully' or '-ly'

စကား

sa kar — words, speech, conversation, language

အနည်းငယ်

a nay ngeh — a little, a small amount, slightly

ဖလှယ်

hpa hlway — to exchange, share, swap with each other

ခဲ့

khe — past tense marker (did, has done)

ကြသည်

kya thit — they do, plural verb marker (present)

နောက်

naout — after, next, behind, later

ပေါ်၌

paw hnit — on, upon, at the surface of

တိတ်ဆိတ်

tite sate — silent, quiet, still, hushed

သွား

thwar — to go, to leave; also tooth (noun)

ခဲ့သည်

khe thit — did (past tense affirmative marker)

တစုံတရာ

ta zone ta ya — something, anything (indefinite reference)

သော

thaw — relative clause marker (which, that, who)

အကြောင်း

a kyaung — reason, cause, topic, about something

ဂိမ်းကို

game go — the game (as grammatical object)

မစတင်

ma sa tin — not yet started, did not begin

ကြပေ

kya pay — plural assertion marker, they indeed do

တွေးတော

tway taw — to think deeply, to ponder, contemplate

ဆင်ခြင်

sin chin — to consider carefully, reflect, deliberate

ချင်

chin — want to, desire to (volitional particle)

သကဲ့သို့

tha keh thoe — as if, as though, like (simile particle)

ခံစား

khan sar — to feel, experience, sense emotionally

ရ

ya — to get, obtain; ability marker (can)

တည်ငြိမ်

tit nyein — stable, calm, steady, composed

ကြည့်ရှု

kyi shu — to watch, observe, look at carefully

ရုံ

yone — hall, theater; just, merely (particle)

မှတပါး

hma ta par — except for, other than, besides

တခြား

ta chara — other, another, different, else

ဘာမျှ

ba hmya — nothing at all, not anything

မလုပ်နိုင်

ma loat nine — cannot do, unable to perform action

ဟု

hu — quotative particle (saying that, called)

ရသည်

ya thit — receives, can, obtains (present tense)

နေ့

nay — day, daytime (unit of time)

ဆုံးသည်မှာ

zone thit hma — as for it ending, at the point of conclusion

အလွန်

a lwan — very, extremely, exceedingly

တင့်တယ်

tint tway — beautiful, appropriate, fitting, graceful

ထွန်းပြောင်မှု

htun pyaung hmu — brilliance, brightness, radiance, shininess

ငြိမ်သက်

nyein thet — calm, peaceful, tranquil, at rest

အဆုံးသတ်

a zone thet — ending, conclusion, termination of something

ရေ

yay — water (essential liquid); also sentence particle

ငြိမ်းချမ်း

nyein chan — peace, peacefulness, serenity, harmony

တောက်ပ

taout pa — bright, shining, gleaming, luminous

အစက်

a set — dot, spot, small mark or point

အပြောက်

a pyout — speck, small spot, fleck

မျှ

hmya — as much as, even, just (equative particle)

မရှိသော

ma shee thaw — which does not exist, without, lacking

မိုး

moe — rain; sky (two related meanings)

ကောင်းကင်

kaung kin — sky, heavens, the open sky above

ညစ်ညမ်းမှု

nyit nyam hmu — pollution, dirtiness, contamination, impurity

ကင်းသော

kin thaw — free from, devoid of, without (relative)

အလင်းရောင်

a lin yaung — light, illumination, brightness, ray of light

ကျယ်ဝန်း

kyay wan — wide, spacious, vast, expansive

သာယာ

tha ya — pleasant, comfortable, enjoyable, serene

နာပြေ

na pyay — soothing, pain-relieving, comforting

ပေါ်ရှိ

paw shee — which is on, located upon a surface

မျှင်ပြာ

hmyin pya — blue thread, fine blue fiber or strand

များပင်

myar pin — even many, quite a lot indeed

ပါးလွှာ

par hlwa — thin, slim, fine in thickness

ပိတ်ထည်

pate htet — woven cloth, fabric, textile material

ကဲ့သို့

keh thoe — like, similar to, in the manner of

များမှ

myar hma — from the many, from among those

ဆွဲချ

hsway cha — to pull down, to drag downward

လျက်

lyet — while doing, as (continuative verb suffix)

ကမ်း

kan — shore, bank, riverbank, coastline

နှိမ့်

hnate — to lower, humble, press down, subdue

ဖွဲ့ညင်း

phway nyin — gently arranged, softly composed or formed

ခေါက်ချောင်း

khout chaung — noodles, folded flour strands (noodle dish)

ဖုံးလွှမ်း

phone hlwan — to cover over, envelop, spread across

အနောက်ဘက်

a naout bet — the west, western side or direction

ရှိ

shee — to exist, be present, have (verb)

မှောင်မိုက်မှု

hmaung mite hmu — darkness, obscurity, gloominess, lack of light

သာ

tha — only, just, merely (limiting particle)

အပေါ်ပိုင်း

a paw pine — upper part, top portion or section

ရောက်

yout — to arrive, reach, get to a place

မြစ်ဆိပ်

myit hsate — river port, riverbank harbor, dock

နေဝင်ချိန်

nay win chine — sunset time, the hour of sundown

နီးလာ

ni la — to draw near, become closer, approach

အမျှ

a hmya — as much as, in proportion to, equally

ဒေါသ

daw tha — anger, wrath, fury, rage

မိနစ်

mi nit — minute (unit of time, 60 seconds)

တိုင်း

tine — every, each time; also region/state (noun)

ပို

poe — more, increasingly, to a greater degree

၍

yway — therefore, so, and then (connector particle)

မှောင်ကျ

hmaung kya — to become dark, darkness falling, dusk

လာသည်

la thit — comes, is coming (present tense verb)