Heart of Darkness — Page 6

Vocabulary

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; but; used to introduce a contrast

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; also present tense marker

ပုံမှန်

pone hman — Normal; ordinary; usual; regular

လူတစ်ယောက်

lu tit yout — A person; one person; someone

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma hout pay — Is not; definitely not; negation with emphasis

သူ၏

thu yay — His; belonging to him; possessive third person

ဇာတ်လမ်းများ

zat lan: mya: — Stories; narratives; multiple tales or plots

တင်ဆက်တတ်သော

tin hset tat thaw — Able to present; skilled at presenting or narrating

စွမ်းရည်ကို

swun yay go — Ability; capability; skill (object marker attached)

ချန်လှပ်ထားလျှင်

chan hlat hta lyin — If one sets aside; if omitting or leaving out

သူ့အတွက်

thu a twet — For him; on his behalf; for his sake

ဖြစ်ရပ်

phyit yat — Event; incident; occurrence; happening

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item or unit

၏

yay — Possessive particle; of; belonging to

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a-di-paa-yay — Meaning; significance; definition; interpretation

အစေ့အနှစ်

a-seik a-hnit — Essence; core meaning; the gist of something

ကဲ့သို့

keh thoe — Like; similar to; such as; in the manner of

အတွင်းဘက်

a-twin bek — Inner side; interior; inside part

တွင်

twìn — In; at; within; locative particle

မရှိဘဲ

ma shì bèh — Without; lacking; in the absence of

အပြင်ဘက်

a-pyin bek — Outside; exterior; outer side

ရှိသည်

shì dhì — There is; exists; to be present

၎င်း

de-in: — It; that; referring to previously mentioned subject

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat lan: — Story; narrative; plot; tale

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to; toward

ဝန်းရံ

wun: yan — To surround; to encircle; encompassing

လျက်

lyat — While; in the process of; ongoing action particle

လင်းရောင်

lin: youn — Brightness; radiance; bright light glow

မှ

hmà — From; since; source marker particle

မြူနှင်း

myuu hnin: — Mist; fog; haze; fine water droplets in air

ထုတ်ဖော်

htoat phaw — To reveal; to express; to bring out

သကဲ့သို့

tha keh thoe — Just as; in the same way as; like

ပြသ

pya tha — To show; to display; to demonstrate

နေသည်

nay dhì — Is; continuing to; present continuous auxiliary verb

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

tit kha tit yan — Sometimes; occasionally; once in a while

လဆင်းရောင်

la hsin: youn — Moonlight; light of the descending moon

တောက်ပြောင်မှု

tout pyoun hmu — Brilliance; shininess; gleaming quality

ဖြင့်

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

မြင်ရ

myin ya — To be able to see; visible; perceivable

လေ့ရှိသော

leh shì dhaw — Having a tendency; usually; habitually does something

မှုန်ဝါးသော

hmone wa: thaw — Dim; blurry; hazy; not clearly visible

ရောင်ဝန်း

youn wun: — Halo; aura; ring of light or color

များ

mya: — Plural marker; many; multiple items

ထဲမှ

htèh hmà — From within; out of; from inside

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with; conjunction particle

တူညီသ

tu nyi tha — Same; identical; alike; resembling each other

မှတ်ချက်

hmat chet — Remark; comment; note; observation

လုံးဝ

lone wah — Completely; absolutely; entirely; at all

အံ့သြဖွယ်ရာ

an thaw phweh ya — Wonderful; amazing; astonishing; remarkable

မဟုတ်သလို

ma hout tha lo — Not like; as if not; nor does it seem

ထင်ရ

htin ya — To seem; to appear; to give an impression

ဆင်တူ

hsin tu — Similar; resembling; alike in appearance

လှသည်

hlà dhì — Is beautiful; is pretty; is lovely

တိတ်ဆိတ်စွာ

teit hseit swa — Quietly; silently; in a calm manner

လက်ခံ

let khan — To accept; to receive; to acknowledge

ကြသည်

kya dhì — Plural subject verb marker; they do something

မည်သူ

myi thu — Who; whoever; anyone; referring to a person

မျှ

hmya — Even; only; just; emphasis or limitation particle

တုံ့ပြန်ရန်

tone pyan yan — To respond; to react; purpose of responding

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphasizing particle

အဆင်သင့်

a-hsin thìn — Ready; prepared; all set to do something

မဟုတ်ကြ

ma hout kya — Are not; plural negation; they are not

မကြာမီ

ma kya mi — Soon; before long; in a short while

သူ

thu — He; she; him; her; third person pronoun

အလွန်

a-lwun — Very; extremely; excessively; a lot

နှေးကွေးစွာ

hnay kwey: swa — Slowly; in a slow manner; unhurriedly

ပြော

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

လိုက်သည်

lite dhì — Did; went ahead and did; follows through

ကျွန်တော်

kya-naw — I; me; first person pronoun (male formal)

ရှေးကျသော

shay: kya dhaw — Ancient; old; belonging to old times

ကာလများ

ka-la mya: — Times; periods; eras; stretches of time

တွေး

tway: — To think; to ponder; to reflect on

နေမိသည်

nay mi dhì — Find oneself doing; accidentally doing something

ဤနေရာ

i nay ya — This place; here; this location

သို့

thoe — To; toward; in the direction of

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma zone: — First; the very first; foremost

ရောက်ရှိ

yout shì — To arrive; to reach; to be present at

စဉ်

hsin — During; while; at the time of; period when

နှစ်ပေါင်း

hnit paun: — Years combined; number of years total

တစ်ထောင့်

tit htoun — One thousand; a thousand units

ကိုးရာ

ko ya — Nine hundred; a numerical value

လောက်

lout — About; approximately; around a number

က

ga — Subject marker particle; from; agent marker

မကြာသေးမီ

ma kya thay mi — Not long ago; recently; a short time before

တစ်နေ့

tit nay — One day; a certain day; someday

ကလေး

ka lay: — Child; small child; young one

ဆိုတာ

hso ta — What is called; the thing known as; meaning

ထိုကတည်းက

htoe ga ti: ga — Since then; from that time onward

ဤမြစ်

i myit — This river; referring to a specific river

အလင်းရောင်

a-lin: youn — Light; brightness; illumination; rays of light

ထွက်ပေါ်လာ

htwet paw la — To emerge; to appear; to come out

သင်

thìn — You; second person singular pronoun

မင်းသားများ

min: tha: mya: — Princes; male royalty; multiple princes

ဟု

hu — Quotation particle; saying that; according to

ဆို

hso — To say; quotative verb; is called

သလော

tha law — Is it so? question particle; really?

ဟုတ်သည်

hout dhì — That is correct; yes; it is true

တောင်ကြားပြင်

taun kya: pyin — Highland plain; open area between mountains

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twìn — On; upon; on top of; on the surface of

ပြေး

pyay: — To run; to flee; to move quickly

လျက်ရှိသော

lyat shì dhaw — That is ongoing; currently in the state of

မီးလောင်မှု

mi laun hmu — Fire; burning; conflagration; act of burning

တိမ်တိုက်များ

tein tite mya: — Clouds; cloud formations; multiple cloud masses

ထဲတွင်

htèh twìn — Inside; within; in the interior of

လျှပ်စစ်

hlyat sit — Lightning; electricity; electric flash

ပြက်

pyet — To flash; to flicker; brief bright burst

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit dhì — Is; to be; to happen; to become

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya-noup doe — We; us; first person plural formal pronoun

တဖြတ်ဖြတ်

ta phyut phyut — Intermittently; with flashes; in flickers

တောက်ပမှု

tout pa hmu — Brightness; radiance; the quality of shining

နေထိုင်

nay htine — To live; to reside; to dwell somewhere

ဟောင်းနွမ်းသော

houn: nwun: dhaw — Old; worn out; dilapidated; aged and worn

မြေကြီး

myay kyi: — Earth; ground; land; soil

လှိမ့်

hlain — To roll; to tumble; to revolve

နေသမျှ

nay tha mya — As long as; however long one stays or lives

ဆက်ခံ

hset khan — To inherit; to receive in succession; to continue

နိုင်ပါစေ

nine pa say — May be able to; wish of capability; blessing form

မနေ့က

ma nay ga — Yesterday; the day before today

မှောင်မိုက်

hmoun might — Darkness; dimness; obscurity; dark conditions

ရှိနေ

shì nay — Is present; continues to exist; ongoing presence

သေးသည်

thay: dhì — Still; yet; still remains the case

ရှိ

shì — To have; to exist; there is; possessive verb

ကောင်းမွန်သော

kaun mwun dhaw — Good; excellent; fine; of good quality

သင်တို့

thìn doe — You all; plural second person pronoun

ဘာ

ba — What; what thing; interrogative pronoun

ခေါ်

khaw — To call; to name; to summon someone

သလဲ

tha lèh — Question particle; is it? what is it?

ရေတပ်

yay tat — Navy; naval force; maritime military

သင်္ဘောကြီး

thin-baw kyi: — Large ship; big vessel; warship or cargo ship

တစ်စီး

tit si: — One vehicle or vessel; a single ship or car

စစ်ဗိုလ်ချုပ်

sit bo-lone gyout — Military commander; general; high-ranking officer

တစ်ဦး

tit u: — One person; a single individual (formal counter)

ခံစားချက်များ

khan sa: chet mya: — Feelings; emotions; sensations; multiple emotions

တွေးကြည့်

tway: kyi — To think about; to consider; to try thinking

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; please; also; included

ရုတ်တရက်

yout ta-yet — Suddenly; abruptly; all at once

မြောက်ဘက်

myout bek — North; northern direction; northward

အမိန့်ပေး

a-mein pay: — To give an order; to command; to issue orders

ခြင်းခံ

chin khan — To receive an action; to be subjected to

ရပြီး

ya pyi: — Having received; after getting; completed receiving

ဆီမှ

hsi hmà — From; away from; originating from a source

ကုန်းလမ်း

koun: lan: — Land route; overland road; path on land

အလျင်အမြန်

a-lyin a-myan — Quickly; speedily; hastily; with urgency

ဖြတ်ကျော်

phyut kyaw — To cross; to pass through; to traverse

ကာ

ka — While doing; simultaneous action particle; and then

တပ်မတော်သားများ

tat ma-daw tha: mya: — Military soldiers; armed forces members; troops

တကယ်ပင်

ta-kèh pin — Truly; really indeed; genuinely; in fact

ကျွမ်းကျင်သော

kywan kyin dhaw — Skilled; experienced; proficient; expert

လူများ

lu mya: — People; many people; persons

ဖြစ်ရမည်

phyit ya myi — Must be; should be; required to be

တည်ဆောက်

ti hsout — To build; to construct; to establish

တတ်သော

tat dhaw — That is able to; capable of; knowing how to

ဤသင်္ဘောများ

i thin-baw mya: — These ships; referring to specific mentioned vessels

တာဝန်ခံ

ta-wun khan — To be responsible; to take responsibility for

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As; in the capacity of; in the role of

ထား

hta: — To place; to keep; resultative aspect marker

၍

yway — Therefore; thus; so; connective causal particle

ဖတ်သည့်

phat dhìn — That reads; which is read; relating to reading

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; something

ယုံကြည်

yone kyi — To believe; to trust; to have faith in

ခွင့်ရှိ

khwin shì — To have permission; to be allowed; permitted

လျှင်

lyin — If; when; conditional particle

တစ်နှစ်

tit hnit — One year; a single year

ရာချီ

ya chi: — Hundreds; numbering in the hundreds

တစ်လ

tit la — One month; a single month

နှစ်လ

hnit la — Two months; a period of two months

အတွင်း

a-twin: — Within; inside; during a period of time

ဆောက်လုပ်

hsout lout — To build; to construct; to create structures

ခဲ့ကြသည်

khèh kya dhì — Did; past tense plural; they did something