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Vocabulary

ကလေးခွေးလေး

ka-lay-khway-lay — a small puppy belonging to or associated with a child

သည်

thì — topic/subject marker particle; also present tense marker

မတ်လ

mat-la — the month of March

တစ်ရက်

tit-yet — one day

အင်္ဂါနေ့

in-ga-né — Tuesday

တွင်

twìn — in, at, within (locative particle)

ရောက်လာ

yauk-la — to arrive, to come to a place

ခဲ့သည်

khè-thì — past tense marker indicating a completed action

ထို

tho — that, those (demonstrative pronoun/adjective)

အချိန်က

a-chain-ga — at that time, during that period

လေထု

lay-tu — atmosphere, air mass

အပူဒဏ်ကြီး

a-pu-dan-ji — intense heat, severe hot conditions

မချုပ်ကိုင်

ma-chouk-kine — not yet under control, unrestrained

မီ

mi — before, prior to (temporal particle)

မြောက်

myauk — north; also to succeed or achieve

ရာသီ

ya-thi — season; also menstrual cycle

၏

é — possessive or linking particle (formal/literary)

နောက်ဆုံး

nauk-zoun — last, final, at the end

အေးမြမှု

ay-mya-hmu — coolness, pleasant cool condition

ကို

go — object marker particle; toward, to

တစ်ဖန်

tit-phan — once again, another time

သယ်ဆောင်

thè-zaung — to carry, to transport, to bring along

နေဆဲ

nay-zè — still ongoing, continuing to be

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-thì — to be, to exist, to happen

တစ်ဆယ့်တစ်နှစ်

tit-hsè-tit-hnit — eleven years old

သာသာ

tha-tha — merely, only, just about (softening particle)

အရွယ်

a-ywè — age, size, appropriate age stage

ကလေးမ

ka-lay-ma — a girl, a young female child

လေး

lay — small, little; also an endearment particle

တစ်ယောက်

tit-yauk — one person

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit-pi — being, having become (connective phrase)

သူမ

thu-ma — she, her (third-person feminine pronoun)

ခုနစ်နှစ်သား

khù-nit-hnit-tha — seven years old (male reference)

က

ga — subject marker particle; from (case marker)

တည်းက

tè-ga — since, from as early as (time reference)

ခွေး

khway — dog

တစ်ကောင်

tit-kaung — one animal (animal counter)

ပေးရန်

pay-yan — in order to give, to provide

တောင်းဆို

taung-so — to request, to demand, to ask for

နေ

nay — to live, to stay; continuous aspect marker

အချိန်

a-chain — time, period, moment

မိမိ

mi-mi — oneself, one's own (reflexive pronoun)

ဘက်

bet — side, direction, toward

မှာ

hma — at, in, on (locative); also future marker

ရှိ

shi — to have, to exist, to be present

ကြောင်း

kjaung — that (complementizer); reason, cause

နားလည်

na-lè — to understand, to comprehend

တတ်သော

tat-thaw — being capable of, able to (relative clause marker)

ကလေး

ka-lay — child, baby, young one

ထူးခြားသည့်

htu-ja-thì — extraordinary, unusual, remarkable (relative clause)

စိတ်ရှည်

seit-shè — patience, long-tempered, calm disposition

သည်းခံမှု

thì-khan-hmu — tolerance, endurance, forbearance

ဖြင့်

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

မိခင်

mi-jin — mother

တိတိကျကျ

tì-tì-kja-kja — precisely, exactly, accurately

သဘောတူ

tha-baw-tu — to agree, to consent

မပြော

ma-pyaw — did not say, without saying

ခဲ့ပေ

khè-pay — past tense emphatic; indeed did (something)

စောင့်ကြည့်

saung-ji — to watch over, to observe, to monitor

မယ်

mè — future tense particle; will, shall

ဟု

hu — quotation particle meaning 'saying that'

ပြော

pyaw — to say, to speak, to tell

စကား

za-ga — words, speech, language

မှန်မှန်ကန်ကန်

hmàn-hmàn-kan-kan — correctly, properly, in the right manner

ပင်

pin — indeed, even, just (emphatic particle)

သင့်လျော်သော

thìn-lyaw-thaw — appropriate, suitable, fitting (relative clause)

အချိန်အခါ

a-chain-a-kha — time and occasion, the right moment

မြင်သော

myìn-thaw — seeing, that which is seen (relative clause)

အခါ

a-kha — when, occasion, time (temporal conjunction)

သိနိုင်

thi-naing — to be able to know, can understand

မည့်

mì — future relative marker; will (relative clause)

အခြေအနေ

a-chay-a-nay — situation, condition, circumstances

များ

mya — plural marker; many, more

ညီညွတ်မှု

nyi-nwut-hmu — harmony, unity, agreement, solidarity

ပေါ်မူတည်

paw-mu-ti — depending on, based on, subject to

သည့်

thì — relative clause marker (present/past)

အခြေအနေပိုင်း

a-chay-a-nay-pine — in terms of conditions or circumstances

သဘောတူညီမှု

tha-baw-tu-nyi-hmu — agreement, consensus, mutual consent

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — as, in the form of, becoming

သဘောပေါက်

tha-baw-pauk — to understand, to grasp the meaning

ထို့ကြောင့်

tho-kjaung — therefore, for that reason, hence

ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ

phay-phaw-wa-ri-la — the month of February

အိမ်နီးချင်း

ain-ni-jin — neighbor, neighboring household

ခွေးမ

khway-ma — female dog, bitch

သားသည်း

tha-thì — offspring, litter of young animals

ဖွားသော

phwa-thaw — that which was born, having given birth

ဆိတ်ဆိတ်

seit-seit — quietly, silently, without noise

စောင့်ဆိုင်း

saung-sine — to wait patiently, to bide one's time

ရုံသာ

youn-tha — merely, only just, nothing more than

တိုက်တွန်း

tike-tun — to urge, to encourage, to push someone

လှုံ့ဆော်

hloun-saw — to incite, to motivate, to instigate

ခြင်း

chin — nominalizer particle; the act of doing

မပြု

ma-pyu — did not do, not performing an action

အငြင်းပွား

a-ngain-bwa — dispute, argument, controversy

ဈေး

zay — price, market, bazaar

ပြန်လမ်း

pyan-lan — return journey, way back

တစ်ကြိမ်

tit-kyein — once, one time

မျှသာ

hmya-tha — only, merely, just that much

သဘာဝကျကျ

tha-ba-wa-kja-kja — naturally, in a natural manner

ကလေးခွေး

ka-lay-khway — a child's dog, puppy kept by a child

ကြည့်ရှု

kji-shu — to look at, to observe, to view

ရန်

yan — in order to, for the purpose of

ခေါ်ဆောင်

khaw-zaung — to lead, to take along, to escort

သွားကာ

thwa-ka — going and then (sequential action connector)

ကျန်သော

kjan-thaw — remaining, leftover, the rest of

အရာ

a-ya — thing, matter, object

လုပ်ဆောင်

louk-zaung — to carry out, to perform, to do

စေ

say — to cause, to make someone do (causative)

ငါးကောင်

nga-kaung — five animals (five as animal count)

ရှိသည်

shi-thì — there is, there are, to exist

အားလုံး

a-lone — all, everyone, everything

ထူးခြားမှု

htu-ja-hmu — uniqueness, special quality, distinction

မရှိသည့်

ma-shi-thì — that which does not exist, lacking

နည်းတူ

nè-tu — similarly, in the same way as

လေးကောင်

lay-kaung — four animals (four as animal count)

ထူးမထူးမ

htu-ma-htu-ma — whether special or not, regardless of uniqueness

ဖြစ်နေ

phyit-nay — to be continuously, to keep being

ကြသည်

kja-thì — plural action marker; they do (together)

ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ

so-lo-thì-hma — what is meant is, in other words

၎င်းတို့

dì-do — they, them, those (third-person plural)

ပြည့်စုံ

pyì-zon — complete, perfect, fully equipped

ပြီး

pi — after, finished, and then (sequential marker)

တူညီ

tu-nyi — to be the same, identical, equal

ကြပြီး

kja-pi — having done together (plural past connective)

ရွေးချယ်

yway-chè — to choose, to select, to pick

မဖြစ်နိုင်

ma-phyit-naing — impossible, cannot happen, unable to be

အောင်

aung — in order to succeed; so that (purposive)

သို့သော်

thò-thaw — however, but, nevertheless

ငါးခု

nga-khu — five items (general object counter)

မူကား

mu-ka — as for, on the other hand (contrastive)

အဖြူရောင်

a-phyu-yaung — white color

စာအုပ်

za-ouk — book

ဟောင်း

haung — old, worn, used (of objects)

ဝါဝါ

wa-wa — yellowish, pale yellow in color

ဖြူဖြူ

phyu-phyu — whitish, fairly white, off-white

အရောင်

a-yaung — color, hue, appearance of color

မဟုတ်

ma-houk — is not, not (negation of 'to be')

မြစ်

myit — river

ကျောက်

kyauk — stone, rock; also gem

မှိုင်း

hmain — murky, hazy, dim, not clear

လည်း

lè — also, too, as well (additive particle)

ဘဲ

bè — without doing, instead (negative connective)

ကျွန်းပန်း

kyun-pan — island flower; a type of flowering plant

ပွင့်

pwin — to bloom, to open (of flowers)

ကြွေကျ

kway-kja — to fall off, to drop, to shed (as petals)

တစ်နာရီ

tit-na-yi — one hour

အကြာ

a-kja — duration, length of time, after a while

၌

hnit — at, in, within (formal locative particle)

မြင်ရသော

myìn-ya-thaw — that which can be seen, visible

သန့်ရှင်းသည့်

thàn-shin-thì — clean, pure, spotless (relative clause)

ထူထပ်သော

htu-tat-thaw — thick, dense, abundant (relative clause)

ဖြူစင်သော

phyu-sin-thaw — pure white, pristine, immaculate

အဖြူ

a-phyu — white, the color white

သူ

thu — he, she, him, her (third-person pronoun)

ကျန်

kjan — remaining, left over, the rest

ထက်

tet — than, more than (comparative particle)

သေးငယ်

thay-ngè — small, tiny, little in size

အနည်းငယ်

a-nè-ngè — a little, a small amount, slightly

ခွာဟ

khwa-ha — gap, distance apart, space between

၍

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

ထိုင်နေ

htine-nay — to be sitting, to remain seated

ရှက်တတ်

shet-tat — prone to shyness, easily embarrassed

သော

thaw — relative clause marker (adjectival participle)

ကြောင့်

kjaung — because of, due to, owing to

ဤ

i — this (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

လောက

law-ga — world, realm, this world

သို့

thò — to, toward, in the direction of

မကြာ

ma-kja — not long, soon, shortly

သေးမီ

thay-mi — before long, not yet, prior to soon

ရောက်ရှိ

yauk-shi — to arrive and be present, to reach

လာသည့်

la-thì — that which is coming, incoming (relative)

ဖြစ်နိုင်ခြေ

phyit-naing-chay — possibility, probability, likelihood

မရှိ

ma-shi — does not exist, there is none, absent

ထင်ရ

htin-ya — it seems, it appears, seemingly

ကိုယ်ကျင့်

ko-jin — personal conduct, moral behavior, character

တည်ကြည်မှု

tì-kji-hmu — steadfastness, composure, stability of mind

ဂုဏ်သတ္တိ

goun-thut-ti — virtue, quality, admirable characteristic

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — one thing, one item (general counter)

သူ့

thu — his, her (possessive of third-person pronoun)

လက်ညှိုး

let-hno — index finger, pointer finger

ထိုး

hto — to stab, to point, to inject, to insert

ပြ

pya — to show, to demonstrate, to display

ကြာမြင့်သော

kja-myìn-thaw — long in duration, lengthy, prolonged

ထို့နောက်

tho-nauk — after that, afterward, subsequently

ဒါ

da — this, this one (colloquial demonstrative)

အများကြီး

a-mya-ji — a lot, very much, a great deal

ချိုး

cho — to break, to fold, to bend; also a type of song

ရမှာပဲ

ya-hma-bè — will definitely get/must receive (emphatic future)

သဘောတူညီ

tha-baw-tu-nyi — to reach agreement, to mutually consent

ဖြစ်ကြောင်း

phyit-kjaung — that it is so; complementizer for facts

သိ

thi — to know, to be aware of, to recognize

လိုက်သည်

lite-thì — to follow; to comply; action completion marker