Heart of Darkness — Page 8

Vocabulary

ဆွံ့အသော

hswan a thaw — Mute, speechless, or unable to speak

မြေပေါ်

mye paw — On the ground, upon the earth

ဆင်းသက်

hsin thet — To descend, come down from above

ကာ

ka — To block, shield, or cover something

တောအုပ်

taw owk — Dense forest, thick jungle or woodland

များ

mya — Many, plural marker or more than one

ထဲ

hte — Inside, within a place or container

တွင်

twin — In, at, within a location or context

ချီတက်

chi tet — To march forward, advance in procession

အတွင်းပိုင်း

a twin pine — Interior part, inner section of something

တစ်နေရာ

ta ne ya — A certain place, one particular location

ရက်စက်

yet set — Cruel, brutal, merciless in treatment

ကြမ်းကြုတ်

kjan kjout — Rough and harsh, coarse in manner

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating an act or matter

လုံးဝ

lone wa — Completely, absolutely, entirely without exception

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker, equivalent to 'that/which'

သည်

thi — Topic marker and present tense indicator

သူ့

thu — His, her; third-person possessive pronoun

ကို

ko — Accusative marker indicating the direct object

ဝိုင်းပိတ်

wine pate — To surround and close off, encircle completely

လိုက်

like — To follow, go along with someone

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

ခံစားရ

khan sa ya — To experience, feel or undergo something

တောချုပ်

taw choke — Dense thicket, shrubby jungle undergrowth

လူတို့

lu doh — People, human beings in general

၏

e — Possessive or genitive particle meaning 'of'

နှလုံးသား

hnalone tha — Heart, the seat of emotion and feeling

လှုပ်ခတ်

hloke hkat — To stir, shake or be deeply moved

နေ

ne — To stay, live, or ongoing action marker

တောဆိတ်ကိုင်း

taw hseit kine — Wild remote jungle, desolate forest area

ထို

htoe — That, those; demonstrative pronoun or adjective

မနိဂုံးဆုံး

ma ni goun zone — Without end, having no conclusion or resolution

ရှုပ်ထွေး

shoke htwe — Complicated, tangled, complex and confusing

နက်နဲ

net ne — Deep, profound, difficult to understand fully

ဘဝ

ba wa — Life, existence, one's state of being

နိဂုံး

ni goun — Conclusion, ending or final part of something

သို့

thoe — To, toward; directional particle in sentences

ဝင်ရောက်

win yout — To enter, go inside a place or group

လည်း

le — Also, too, as well; additive particle

မရှိ

ma shi — Does not exist, there is none

ပေ

pe — Emphatic or assertive sentence-final particle

သူ

thu — He, she; third-person singular pronoun

နားလည်

na le — To understand, comprehend something clearly

၍

ywe — Connective particle meaning 'therefore, and so'

မရ

ma ya — Cannot, unable to obtain or achieve something

တစ်ချိန်တည်း

ta chein de — At the same time, simultaneously

မှာပင်

hma pin — Right there, precisely at that place

ရွံမုန်း

ywan mone — To detest, feel disgust and hatred toward

ဖွယ်ကောင်း

phwe kaung — Worthy of, deserving of a certain feeling

အရာ

a ya — Thing, matter, object or affair

အလယ်

a le — Middle, center of something or a group

နေထိုင်

ne htine — To live, reside, dwell in a place

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, or can do something

မည်

mi — Future tense marker indicating will or shall

ထို့ပြင်

htoe pyin — Furthermore, besides that, in addition

ဆွဲဆောင်

hswe hsaung — To attract, draw in, allure someone

မဆုံးနိုင်

ma hzone nine — Cannot finish, endless, impossible to conclude

တစ်မျိုး

ta myoe — A kind of, one type of something

စွဲမက်

swe met — To be fascinated, captivated, addicted to

ရှိ

shi — To exist, to be present or have

သေးသည်

thay thi — Still, yet; still continuing in a state

ဖွယ်

phwe — Worthy of, likely to cause a feeling

သိ

thi — To know, be aware of something

လော

law — Interrogative particle for yes/no questions

တိုးပွား

toe pwa — To increase, grow, develop or multiply

လာ

la — To come, or directional verb marker toward speaker

နောင်တ

naung ta — Regret, remorse for past actions

ထွက်ပြေး

htoke pye — To run away, flee, escape from somewhere

လို

lo — To want, need, or like as in desire

တောင့်တ

taung ta — To long for, yearn, desire something deeply

အစွမ်းကုန်

a swun kone — With all one's might, using full effort

အညံ့ခံ

a nhan khan — To yield, give in, submit to another

ခြင်း

chine — Nominalizing suffix for actions or states

မုန်းတီး

mone ti — To hate intensely, have strong aversion toward

မြင်ယောင်

myin yaung — To imagine, visualize, have a mental image

ကြည့်

kji — To look at, observe, watch something

ပါ

pa — Polite particle or inclusive marker in sentences

ခဏ

kha na — A moment, a short while, briefly

ရပ်လိုက်

yat like — To stop suddenly, come to a halt

သတိပြုပါ

tha di pyu pa — Please be careful, pay attention and notice

ထပ်မံ

htat man — Again, once more, additionally repeating something

စတင်

sa tin — To begin, start, commence an action

ပြောဆို

pyaw hsoe — To speak, say, talk about something

တစ်ဖက်

ta phek — One side, the other side or direction

လက်မောင်း

let maung — Arm, the upper limb of the body

မှ

hma — From, since; ablative particle in sentences

လက်

let — Hand, the hand or arm extremity

ထောင်

htaung — To raise up, lift, or prison/thousand

လက်ဝါး

let wa — Palm of the hand, inner hand surface

အပြင်ဘက်

a pyin bet — Outside, the exterior direction or area

လှည့်

hle — To turn around, rotate or face another direction

ပေါင်

paung — Thigh, the upper part of the leg

နှစ်ဖက်

hnit phek — Both sides, two sides of something

ချိုးထိုင်

choe htine — To crouch down, sit in a squatting position

ထားသည့်

hta thi — Which has been placed or kept there

ဟန်

han — Manner, pose, style or appearance of action

အနေ

a ne — Position, state, situation or manner of being

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of; instrumental particle

ဥရောပ

u yaw pa — Europe, the European continent

ဝတ်စုံ

wut soon — Outfit, a set of clothing or costume

ဝတ်ဆင်

wut hsin — To wear, put on clothing or accessories

ထားသော

hta thaw — Which has been kept, placed or done

ကြာဆိုင်း

kja hsine — To delay, take a long time, linger

မပါ

ma pa — Without, not included, not present there

သည့်

thi — Relative clause particle linking noun and verb

ဗုဒ္ဓ

bote da — The Buddha, the enlightened one in Buddhism

တရားဟော

ta ya haw — To preach the Dhamma, give a sermon

သကဲ့သို့

tha ke thoe — As if, like, similar to something described

အနေအထား

a ne a hta — Situation, condition, state of circumstances

ပေး

pe — To give, provide or offer something to someone

ငါတို့

nga doh — We, us; first-person plural pronoun

တစ်ဦး

ta u — One person, a single individual

မျှ

hma — Only, just, as much as; equalizing particle

ဒီလိုမျိုး

di lo myoe — This kind of way, like this type

အတိအကျ

a ti a kja — Exactly, precisely, with complete accuracy

ခံစား

khan sa — To feel, experience, undergo an emotion

လိမ့်မည်

lain mi — Will probably, likely to happen in future

မဟုတ်

ma hout — Is not, negation of identity or state

ကယ်တင်

ke tin — To rescue, save someone from danger

မှာ

hma — At, in; locative particle or telling marker

ထိရောက်

hti yout — Effective, efficient, producing the desired result

အပေါ်

a paw — Above, on top, upper part of something

သစ္စာရှိ

tha hsa shi — Faithful, loyal, honest and trustworthy

ပင်

pin — Indeed, truly; emphatic or intensifying particle

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen or occur

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However, but, nevertheless; contrastive conjunction

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun or adjective

သူများ

thu mya — Other people, those others, they

အမှန်တကယ်

a hman ta ke — Truly, really, in actual fact

သိပ်

thate — Very, extremely; intensifying adverb in speech

မထည့်တွက်

ma hteh twet — To disregard, not take into account

သူတို့

thu doh — They, them; third-person plural pronoun

အစီးနင်း

a si nin — To ride upon, take advantage of someone

ကြ

kja — Plural action marker for multiple subjects

အုပ်ချုပ်

owk choke — To govern, rule, administer over people

ညှစ်

hnit — To squeeze, press or wring something tightly

ပေးခြင်း

pe chine — The act of giving, providing something

မျှသာ

hma tha — Only, merely, just that amount alone

ပြီး

pyi — After, already done; completion or sequence marker

အခြား

a chja — Other, another, different from this one

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative pronoun asking about things

ငါ

nga — I, me; first-person singular informal pronoun

ထင်မြင်

htin myin — To think, have an opinion, believe something

အနိုင်ယူ

a nine yu — To dominate, take advantage, overpower someone

အတွက်

a twet — For, for the sake of, regarding something

ကြမ်းတမ်း

kjan dan — Harsh, rough, brutal in nature or action

အား

a — Object marker or strength, power, energy

ကိုသာ

ko tha — Only, exclusively; restrictive particle with object

လိုအပ်

lo at — To need, require, be necessary for something

သင်

thin — You; second-person singular pronoun, formal

အချိန်

a chein — Time, a period or moment of time

ဝါကြွား

wa kwa — To boast, brag, show off arrogantly

အဘယ်ကြောင့်

a be kjoun — Why, for what reason or cause

ဆိုသော်

hsoe thaw — If one says, speaking of, as for

အင်အား

in a — Strength, power, force or military might

အားနည်း

a ni — Weak, lacking strength or power

ချက်

chet — Instantly, at once; or a strike or blow

ဖြစ်ပေါ်

phyit paw — To arise, occur, come into existence

ကိစ္စမျပ်

kite hsa myat — No problem, never mind, it does not matter

ကြောင့်

kjoun — Because of, due to; causal particle

ရနိုင်

ya nine — Can get, able to obtain or achieve

သမျှ

tha mha — All, everything, whatever there is

လိုက်ဆုတ်

like hsout — To retreat, withdraw, step back from

ကိုင်

kine — To hold, grasp, handle an object

ခဲ့

khe — Past tense marker indicating completed action