Jane Eyre: An Autobiography — Page 3

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — topic marker or present tense particle

ကို

ko — object marker particle in Burmese grammar

မကြိုက်

ma kjaik — to not like or dislike something

ခဲ့

khɛ̰ — past tense marker indicating completed action

ပေ

pè — sentence-final particle expressing obviousness

အဘယ်

a bɛ̀ — why or what reason, interrogative word

ကြောင့်

kjàʊɴ — because of, due to, causal postposition

ဆို

hsò — to say, quote, or so-called particle

သော်

thɔ̀ — formal conditional or contrast conjunction meaning although

သူ့

thu̍ — his, her, possessive or object form of he/she

အတွက်

a tweʔ — for the sake of, regarding, purpose postposition

ကောင်း

kàʊɴ — good, nice, well, positive quality

သော

thɔ̀ — relative clause marker, attributive particle

ဗျာဒိတ်

bya diʔ — prophecy or divine revelation, biblical term

တစ်ခါ

tiʔ kha — once, one time, a single occasion

မျှ

hmya̰ — only, merely, just, limiting particle

မဟော

ma hɔ̀ — does not prophesy, fails to foretell

ဘဲ

bɛ́ — without doing, negative adverbial particle

မကောင်း

ma kàʊɴ — not good, bad, evil, negative quality

သာ

thà — only, just, restrictive or emphatic particle

ဟော

hɔ̀ — to prophesy, foretell, preach publicly

ဖြစ်

pjiʔ — to be, to happen, to become

နိုင်

naing — can, able to, capable of doing something

ချေ

tʃè — sentence-final particle softening or emphasizing statement

အရ

a ya — according to, based on, per a source

သူ

thu — he, she, third person pronoun

၏

ì — formal possessive or genitive particle

သား

thá — son, child, also softening sentence particle

ချ

tʃa̰ — to lower, bring down, place downward

ပိုမို

po mo — more, even more, to a greater degree

နှစ်

hniʔ — year, or two (number), dual meanings

သက်

theʔ — life, age, or to feel, experience

မည်

mjḭ — future tense marker, will or shall

သို့

thò — to, toward, directional postposition

လည်း

lɛ̀ — also, too, as well, additive particle

ချော့

tʃɔ̰ — to coax, flatter, or persuade gently

မော့

mɔ̰ — to tilt head up, look upward

စကား

za gá — word, speech, language, conversation

များ

mjá — many, plural marker, a lot of

နား

ná — ear, or to listen, to rest

မထောင်

ma tʰàʊɴ — to not listen, not obey, disobedient

သစ္စာ

theiʔ sa — loyalty, faithfulness, truth, honesty

ရှိ

ʃḭ — to exist, have, be present somewhere

အကြံ

a kjàɴ — idea, plan, advice, suggestion

ဉာဏ်

ɲàɴ — wisdom, intelligence, discernment, knowledge

ထောင်

tʰàʊɴ — thousand, or prison, or to listen

လျှင်

ljiɴ — if, when, conditional conjunction particle

သွေး

θwé — blood, or to lure, mislead someone

ထွက်

tʰweʔ — to go out, exit, leave a place

သေ

θè — to die, death, deceased

ခြင်း

tʃjiɴ — nominalizing suffix turning verb into noun

မှ

hmà — from, since, ablative postposition

လွတ်

lwaʔ — to be free, released, escape from confinement

မြောက်

mjàʊʔ — to succeed, be accomplished, north direction

ကျွန်ုပ်

tɕənoup — I, me, formal first person pronoun

တို့

tò — plural marker for pronouns and nouns

ခေတ်

kheʔ — era, age, period of time, epoch

ကာလ

ka la — period, time, era, duration

တွင်

twiɴ — in, at, inside, locative postposition

နူးညံ့

nu ɲàɴ — gentle, soft, tender in manner or speech

ကျေနပ်

tɕè naʔ — to be satisfied, content, pleased with result

စေ

sè — causative particle, to cause or make do

ရန်

jaɴ — in order to, for the purpose of

မဟုတ်

ma houʔ — is not, negation of to be

မှန်ကန်

hmàɴ kaɴ — correct, accurate, right, proper, truthful

တတ်

taʔ — to know how, be able, habitual particle

တစ်ဦး

tiʔ ú — one person, a single individual

ထို

tʰò — that, those, demonstrative pronoun or adjective

အတွေး

a twé — thought, idea, reflection, thinking

အခေါ်

a kʰɔ̀ — name, what something is called, designation

နှင့်

hniɴ — and, with, together, conjunction or comitative

ပလ္လင်

pa laɴ — throne, royal seat of a king

ပေါ်

pɔ̀ — on, upon, surface of, locative postposition

ထိုင်

tʰàiɴ — to sit, be seated, reside somewhere

ရှင်ဘုရင်

ʃiɴ bù jiɴ — king, monarch, ruler of a kingdom

ရှေ့

ʃḛ — front, before, ahead, in front of

ရောက်

jàʊʔ — to arrive, reach, come to a place

လာ

là — to come, approach, directional verb particle

သ

tha — verbal suffix indicating completeness or state

ကဲ့

kɛ̰ — like, as, similar to, comparative particle

လူ့

lu̍ — of humans, human (possessive or attributive)

အဖွဲ့

a pʰwɛ̰ — group, team, organization, assembly

အစည်း

a sí — meeting, gathering, organization, assembly

ကြီးမား

tɕí má — great, large, enormous, significant in scale

နက်ရှိုင်း

neʔ ʃàiɴ — deep, profound, of great depth or meaning

အမှန်တရား

a hmàɴ ta já — truth, reality, what is genuinely correct

ကြား

tɕá — between, among, or to hear something

၍

jwiɴ — therefore, so, connective written particle

ပရောဖက်

pa jaw pheʔ — prophet, one who delivers divine messages

အသက်

a theʔ — life, age, lifespan of a person

ဝင်

wiɴ — to enter, go in, join a group

အင်အား

iɴ á — strength, power, force, capability

ဖြင့်

pʰjiɴ — with, by means of, instrumental postposition

ဆိုင်ရာ

hsàiɴ já — related to, concerning, relevant to a topic

မကြောက်

ma tɕàʊʔ — not afraid, fearless, without fear

ရဲရင့်

jɛ̀ jiɴ — brave, courageous, bold in facing danger

ဝံ့

wàɴ — to dare, have courage to do something

ပြော

pjɔ̀ — to speak, say, tell, talk to someone

သရော်

tha jɔ̀ — to mock, satirize, ridicule someone or something

ရေး

jé — to write, or affairs, matters concerning something

ဆရာ

hsaya — teacher, master, respected professional person

မြင့်မား

mjiɴ má — high, elevated, lofty in position or status

နေရာ

ne já — place, location, position, spot somewhere

ချီးမွမ်း

tʃí mwáɴ — to praise, glorify, commend someone or something

ခံ

kʰàɴ — to receive, endure, bear or undergo something

ရ

ya̰ — to get, obtain, receive, resultative particle

လော

lɔ̀ — interrogative particle asking a yes/no question

မပြော

ma pjɔ̀ — to not speak, not say anything

ပါ

pà — polite particle, also to come along or include

ချက်

tʃeʔ — immediately, at once, or a stab/strike

ဂရိ

ga yi — Greece or Greek, referring to Greek culture

မီး

mí — fire, light, flame or electricity

ပစ်

piʔ — to throw, shoot, fire, discard something

ပေါက်

pàʊʔ — to burst, explode, emerge, or be born

ပြီး

pjí — after, finished, done, completion particle

အပြစ်

a pjiʔ — sin, fault, blame, wrongdoing, guilt

တင်

tiɴ — to place on, submit, load onto surface

မိုး

mó — rain, sky, or the firmament above earth

ချင်း

tʃiɴ — Chin ethnic group, or mutual action particle

စ

sa̰ — to begin, start, commence an action

ကျောက်

tɕàʊʔ — stone, rock, mineral, hard natural material

ကြိုး

tɕó — rope, string, cord, wire, or to try hard

ဆင်း

ssiɴ — to descend, go down, come down from

သွန်း

θwáɴ — to pour, cast metal, spill liquid

အချို့

a tʃó — some, a few, certain ones among many

သတိ

tha ti — mindfulness, awareness, attention, caution

ပေး

pé — to give, provide, offer to someone

အချိန်

a tʃeiɴ — time, moment, period, duration of time

မီ

mì — to reach in time, be in time for

မျိုး

mjó — kind, type, species, generation, sort

နွယ်

nwɛ̀ — related lineage, descent, vine, creeping plant

သေဆုံး

θè hsóɴ — to die, pass away, meet death

ဘေး

bé — side, danger, peril, beside something

ဆိုက်

hsàiʔ — to arrive at, reach a destination, dock

ရှောင်

ʃàʊɴ — to avoid, evade, stay away from something

လွှဲ

lʰwɛ́ — to transfer, hand over, shift responsibility

ကြ

tɕa̰ — plural or reciprocal action particle for verbs

ဟု

hu — quotative particle meaning 'saying that'

ထင်

tʰiɴ — to think, seem, appear, believe something

မြင်

mjiɴ — to see, observe, witness visually

ဤ

ì — this, formal demonstrative pronoun (written)

ကိုးကား

kó ká — to refer to, cite, quote a source

နည်း

nɛ̀ — method, way, technique, or few/little

စာဖတ်

sa pʰaʔ — to read, reading books or written material

မှာ

hmà — at, in, on, locative or instructive particle

တပည့်

ta pjḭ — student, disciple, follower, apprentice

တူ

tu — same, alike, similar, equal to something

က

ga̰ — subject marker or nominalizing particle

မှတ်

hmaʔ — to note, remember, mark, record something

မိ

mḭ — to catch, accidentally do, successfully do

ထက်

tʰeʔ — than, more than, comparative postposition

ပို

po — more, even more, additionally, comparatively greater

ထူးခြား

tʰú tʃá — special, distinctive, unique, extraordinary

ရည်

jì — to aim for, target, or liquid substance

ပထမ

pa tha ma — first, primary, initial in order

ဆုံး

hsóɴ — end, finish, most (superlative), to conclude

ပြုပြင်

pju pjiɴ — to repair, reform, fix, restore something broken

သမား

tha má — person associated with a trade or profession

အဖြစ်

a pjiʔ — as, in the role of, existence, occurrence

ရှု

ʃu — to look at, view, observe, regard something

ပျက်

pjeʔ — to break down, fail, be ruined, spoil

စီး

sí — to flow, ride on, or wear (clothing)

နေ

nè — to live, stay, reside, progressive particle

စနစ်

sa niʔ — system, method, order, organized structure

တရား

ta já — law, justice, doctrine, Dhamma teaching

မျှတ

hmya̰ ta — fair, balanced, just, equitable treatment

မှု

hmu — nominalizer suffix for abstract nouns from verbs

ပြန်လည်

pjàɴ lɛ̀ — to return, go back again, restore to original

ထူ

tʰu — thick, dense, or to establish, erect something

စား

sá — to eat, consume food or drink

လုပ်သား

louʔ θá — worker, laborer, working person

အစစ်

a siʔ — genuine, real, authentic, true kind

အမှန်

a hmàɴ — truth, reality, what is actually correct

စာ

sa̰ — letter, writing, book, written document

လိုက်

làiʔ — to follow, go along with, accompany someone

ဖက်

pʰeʔ — to hold, embrace, cling to, side with

နှိုင်း

hnàiɴ — to compare, contrast one thing with another

ယှဉ်

ʃiɴ — to compete, compare, be alongside something

ပြောင်

pjàʊɴ — bright, shiny, smooth, or to be clever

စွာ

swa̰ — adverbial particle meaning in a manner of

ဖော်ပြ

pʰɔ̀ pja̰ — to express, describe, illustrate, explain clearly

ဝေါဟာရ

wɔ̀ ha ya — vocabulary, terminology, technical term in language

မတွေ့

ma twɛ̰ — not found, not encountered, not met yet

သေး

θé — still, yet, not yet, particle of incompleteness