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Vocabulary

ဥယျာဉ်

u-yain — A garden or park with plants and trees

တွင်

twinn — In, at, within (locative particle)

သစ်ပင်

thit-pin — A tree; woody perennial plant

အိုကြီး

o-ji — Very old; aged (used for trees or people)

ရှိပြီး

shi-pyi — There is/are, and also; existing additionally

မြက်ခင်း

myat-khinn — A grassy area; lawn covered with grass

ပေါ်

pau — On top of; above; upon a surface

ပုံမမှန်

pone-ma-hmaan — Irregular in shape; not normal in form

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; that which, who

အရိပ်

a-yait — Shade; shadow cast by an object

များ

mya — Many; plural marker; a lot of

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to, at (direction)

ဖြာထုတ်

phya-htoat — To spread out; radiate outward in branches

နေ

nay — To live; stay; sun; continuative aspect marker

သည့်

thae — Relative clause marker (present/past tense)

သရက်ပင်

tha-yet-pin — A mango tree; tropical fruit-bearing tree

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be; to become; to occur, happen

သည်

thii — Sentence-final declarative particle; topic marker

ခြံစည်းရိုး

chaan-si-yo — A fence or wall surrounding a compound

တစ်လျှောက်

ta-hlyout — Along, throughout; all along a path

ပူပြင်း

pu-pyin — Hot and intense; sweltering heat

ရာသီ

ya-thi — Season; period of the year; menstruation

ပွင့်

pwin — To bloom; blossom; open (of flowers)

တတ်

tat — To know how to; tend to; habitual aspect

ဖြူ

phyu — White; pale in color

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction/particle)

ဝါ

wa — Yellow; yellow color

ပန်း

pan — Flower; blossom; floral decoration

ကြွေကျ

kway-kya — To fall off; drop down (leaves, petals)

လေ့

lay — Habitual tendency marker; usually does something

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; there is/are

ကောင်း

kaun — Good; nice; well; fine quality

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; third-person pronoun

၏

ae — Genitive particle; possessive marker (formal)

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma-zone — The very first; earliest in order

ရက်သတ္တပတ်

yet-thut-ta-pat — A week; period of seven days

ထို

hto — That; those; demonstrative pronoun (formal)

စူးစမ်း

su-san — To explore; probe; investigate curiously

စစ်ဆေး

sit-say — To examine; inspect; check carefully

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix; the act of doing something

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not (placed before verb)

ရပ်နိုင်

yat-nain — To be able to stop; can halt

ဘဲ

bè — Without doing; refraining from an action

သေချာ

thay-cha — Certain; sure; definite; carefully done

သေး

thay — Still; yet; not yet (aspect particle)

လား

la — Question particle; yes/no question marker

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that; as if

ကဲ့သို့

kae-dho — Like; similar to; just as something

ဖြင့်

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

တိုး

to — To increase; approach; push forward gently

ညင်သာ

nyin-tha — Gently; softly; carefully and tenderly

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

နံ့ရှု

nan-shu — To smell; sniff; inhale a scent

ပြီး

pyi — After; finished; completion aspect marker

နောက်

nout — After; behind; next; following something

ချန်ထား

chan-hta — To leave behind; set aside; keep remaining

ကာ

ka — While doing; transitional connective particle

ရှာဖွေ

sha-phway — To search for; look for; seek out

ရာသီဥတု

ya-thi-u-tu — Climate; weather conditions of a region

ခွင့်ပြု

khwin-pyu — To allow; permit; give permission for something

အခါ

a-kha — Time; occasion; when (temporal marker)

မိသားစု

mi-tha-zu — Family; household members related by blood

တစ်ရပ်လုံး

ta-yat-lone — The whole community; entire neighborhood together

မည်ဘူး

myi-bu — Will not; negative future tense marker

ညစာ

nya-za — Dinner; evening meal; supper

စား

sa — To eat; consume food

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place; location; spot; position

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit-pyi — Being; having become; and so it is

၎င်း

din-gi — It; that; the aforementioned (formal pronoun)

နှစ်

hnit — Year; two (numerical classifier for years)

တစ်နှစ်

ta-hnit — One year; a single year's duration

အများစု

a-mya-zu — The majority; most of; the greater part

ကာလ

ka-la — Period of time; era; duration of time

နီပါ

ni-pa — Near; close by; nearby (colloquial usage)

ဖခင်

pha-khinn — Father; male parent (formal/literary term)

ပေါင်း

paun — To combine; add together; total; sum up

များစွာ

mya-swa — Many; a great number; numerous amount

က

ga — Subject marker particle; from (source marker)

တည်းက

tèe-ga — Since; from the time of; ever since

နိမ့်

nain — Low; short in height; below average level

စားပွဲ

sa-bwè — Dining table; table used for eating

တစ်လုံး

ta-lone — One piece; one whole unit of something

ဆောက်လုပ်

sout-loat — To build; construct; erect a structure

ခဲ့ပြီး

khè-pyi — Has already done; completed past action

အသုံးပြု

a-thone-pyu — To use; make use of; utilize something

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix indicating action or affair

ကြောင့်

kyaun — Because of; due to; owing to a cause

မည်းမှောင်

myi-hmaun — Dark; gloomy; pitch black in color

တွေ့

twè — To meet; find; encounter someone or something

ရ

ya — To get; obtain; achieve; resultative particle

အကြိမ်

a-khyim — Time; occasion; instance; number of times

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker; did; went away from

ရာ

ya — Nominalizing suffix; place where; about which

ပရိဘောဂ

pa-ri-baw-ga — Furniture; household furnishings and fittings

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One thing; a single item or object

ထက်

htat — Than; more than; compared to something

အမြဲ

a-myè — Always; constantly; all the time

တန်ဆာ

tan-za — Decoration; ornament; accessory for beautifying

ဖြစ်လာ

phyit-la — To become; come to be; turn into

ဆို

so — Say; called; quotative or conditional particle

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle; ordering particle

အကြွင်းအကျန်

a-khwin-a-kyan — Remnants; leftovers; remaining pieces or scraps

လို

lo — Like; want; need; as if; similar to

ကြောင်း

kyaun — Complementizer particle; that (reported speech)

စိတ်ရှည်

sait-shi — Patient; long-suffering; tolerant in manner

အပ်

at — To entrust; hand over; needle; sewing pin

အစွန်း

a-swan — Edge; tip; extremity; border of something

နား

na — Ear; to rest; near; beside something

တိတ်တိတ်

tait-tait — Quietly; silently; without making any noise

ဆိတ်ဆိတ်

sait-sait — Very quietly; still; hushed atmosphere

ထိုင်

htaing — To sit; be seated; take a seat

မည်

myi — Future tense marker; will; shall do something

မျှ

hmya — Only; as much as; equal amount; merely

မှားယွင်း

hma-ywin — To be wrong; mistaken; in error

စေ

say — To cause; let; make someone do something

နိုင်

nain — To be able to; can; capability marker

ငြိမ်ဝပ်

nyim-wut — Peaceful; calm; tranquil; undisturbed state

ချင်

chinn — Want to; desire to do something

ပုံစံ

pone-zan — Shape; form; style; pattern; format

ကြည့်ရှု

kyi-shu — To observe; look at; view attentively

ကြာမီ

kya-mi — Before long; soon; not much time before

ပင်

pin — Indeed; even; emphatic particle; tree (plant)

သင်ယူ

thin-yu — To learn; study; acquire knowledge or skills

သိရှိ

thi-shi — To know; be aware of; have knowledge

သွား

thwa — To go; leave; directional aspect marker

လ

la — Month; moon; lunar period

ကလေး

ga-lay — Child; baby; young person; small child

ဘာသာစကား

ba-tha-za-ga — Language; spoken tongue; linguistic system

နည်း

nee — Method; way; technique; how to do something

အိမ်

ain — House; home; dwelling place; residence

တစ်နေ့တာ

ta-nay-da — An entire day; throughout one whole day

လှုပ်ရှားမှု

hlyut-sha-hmu — Activity; movement; action; physical activity

ညွှန်ကြားချက်

hnwan-kya-chet — Instruction; directive; order; official guidance

ဟုတ်

hoot — Yes; correct; that's right; affirmation

နှစ်မြှုပ်

hnit-hmyoat — To immerse; submerge; deeply engross oneself

ရက်

yet — Day; date; cruel (different tones/contexts)

ထပ်တလဲလဲ

htat-ta-lèe-lèe — Repeatedly; over and over again

ဖြစ်ပျက်

phyit-pyet — To happen; occur; take place; transpire

မှ

hma — From; since; only then (particle)

တစ်ဆင့်

ta-hsing — Through; via; step by step; one step

အစောဆုံး

a-zaw-zone — The earliest; soonest possible; at first opportunity

နိုး

no — To wake up; be awake; rouse from sleep

ထ

hta — To get up; stand up; rise from rest

အိမ်ထောင်

ain-daun — Marriage; household; married life or family

စီးပွား

si-bwa — Business; livelihood; economic affairs; trade

တစ်ခုလုံး

ta-khu-lone — The whole thing; entirely; all of it

စတင်

sa-tin — To start; begin; commence an action

လှုပ်ရှား

hlyut-sha — To move; be active; stir; get going

လာ

la — To come; approach; inceptive aspect marker

ဆိုင်ကျွမ်း

saing-kywan — Expert; skilled; proficient in a field

တစ်နေ့

ta-nay — One day; someday; a single day

တိုင်း

tine — Every; each; whenever; all throughout

နံနက်

nan-nat — Morning; early part of the day

ခြောက်

chout — Six; dry; to dry out; desiccated

နာရီ

na-yi — Hour; clock; watch; timepiece

ကြော

kyaw — Back; spine; behind; through (directional)

မော်တော်

maw-taw — Motor vehicle; motorized transport; automobile

ဆိုင်ကယ်

saing-kye — Motorcycle; motorbike; two-wheeled motor vehicle

ထွက်ခွာ

htwet-khwa — To depart; leave; set off from a place

သတိ

tha-di — Mindfulness; awareness; caution; attention

ထား

hta — To place; keep; put; resultative marker

ဖွယ်

phway — Worth; deserving of; likely to; suffix particle

ကျောင်း

kyaun — School; educational institution; place of learning

အိတ်

ait — Bag; sack; pocket; carrying container

အတူ

a-tu — Together; jointly; along with someone

နောက်ပိုင်း

nout-pine — Afterward; later; subsequent period of time

တူ

tu — Same; alike; similar; equal to something

ကွဲပြား

kwè-pya — Different; distinct; varied; unlike each other

မှတ်ယူ

hmat-yu — To note down; memorize; take note of

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of; enemy

သူမ

thu-ma — She; her; female third-person pronoun

တံခါးဝ

tan-ga-wa — Doorway; entrance; threshold of a door

အထိ

a-hti — Until; up to; as far as; to the extent

လိုက်ပို့

lait-po — To escort; take someone somewhere; send along

ဝမ်းနည်း

wan-nee — To be sad; sorrowful; feel grief or sorrow

ဆန္ဒ

san-da — Desire; wish; aspiration; will; intention

မပါ

ma-pa — Without; not included; lacking; not present

ပြသ

pya-tha — To show; demonstrate; display to someone

သို့သော်

thoe-thaw — However; but; nevertheless; even so

ထုံတမ်း

htone-tan — Tradition; custom; habitual practice; convention

တစ်ရပ်

ta-yat — A community; one settlement; a locality

အနေ

a-nay — Status; condition; as; in the capacity of

တို့

to — Plural pronoun suffix; we; they; our group

ကမ္ဘာ

kamba — World; earth; the globe; universe

အနား

a-na — Near; beside; close to; vicinity of

သို့

thoe — To; toward; in the direction of (formal)

ပို့ဆောင်

po-saun — To transport; deliver; convey to a destination

ပျောက်

pyout — To disappear; get lost; vanish; go missing