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Vocabulary

နီပါ့

ni pa' — Nipa palm tree found in tropical regions

အဖေ

a hpay — Father; male parent

က

ka — Subject marker particle; from

မြောက်ဘက်

myauk bèt — North; northern direction

မှာ

hma — At; in; on; locative particle

တစ်နှစ်

tit hnit — One year; a single year

တာ

ta — Nominalizer particle; action or duty

တာဝန်

ta wun — Responsibility; duty; obligation

ကျ

kya — To fall; to drop down

နေ

nay — To live; to stay; sun

တဲ့

dèh — Reported speech particle; quotative marker

အင်ဂျင်နီယာ

in jin ni ya — Engineer; person trained in engineering

ပရောဂျက်

pa yaw jet — Project; planned undertaking or task

ညနေ

nya nay — Evening; late afternoon time

ပိုင်း

pine — Part; section; to divide

တွေ

tway — Plural marker; those; these things

ဖုန်း

hpone — Telephone; phone; dust

ဆက်

set — To continue; to connect; to follow

တိုင်း

tine — Every; each; region; state

သူမ

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

ပြော

pyaw — To speak; to say; to tell

မိ

mi — To catch; to achieve unintentionally

တော့

taw — Discourse particle indicating contrast or shift

ခွေး

khway — Dog; canine animal

လေး

lay — Four; endearment particle; heavy

ကောင်း

kaung — Good; well; fine; excellent

နိုင်

nine — To be able to; can; to win

ပြီ

pyi — Already; completion marker particle

ဆို

so — To say; quotative particle; if

ပဲ

beh — Only; just; emphatic particle

သူ

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

တိရစ္ဆာန်

ta yit san — Animal; beast; living creature

တစ်ကောင်

tit kaung — One animal; a single creature

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also; to include

လို့

lo' — Because; so that; quotative particle

ထဲ

hteh — Inside; within; in

တယ်

deh — Declarative sentence-final particle

ရဲ့

yeh — Possessive or associative particle

အသံ

a thun — Sound; voice; noise

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun

ခင်ပွန်း

khin bwun — Husband; male spouse

မ

ma — Negative prefix; not; woman

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; there is

အချိန်

a chein — Time; period; moment

ဖြစ်ပျက်

hpyit pyet — To happen; to occur; event

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense marker; to have done

နဲ့

neh — With; and; by means of

ပတ်သက်

pat thet — To relate to; to concern; regarding

ပြီး

pyi — After; having done; completion

ရည်ရွယ်ချက်

yi yweh chet — Purpose; intention; aim; objective

ပြည့်ဝ

pyi wa — Complete; full; sufficient; abundant

ဘဲ

beh — Without doing; instead of; particle

ခွင့်ပြု

khwin pyu — To permit; to allow; to grant permission

လိုက်

lite — To follow; directional verb particle

ကိစ္စ

keit sa — Matter; issue; affair; thing

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to; towards

ထုံးစံ

htone san — Custom; tradition; convention; norm

အတိုင်း

a tine — According to; as; in accordance with

ဂရု

ga yu — Care; attention; heed

တစိုက်

ta soit — Steadily; continuously; intently

ဘက်

bet — Side; direction; towards

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; who; which

အမူအရာ

a mu a ya — Behavior; manner; gesture; expression

အရမ်း

a yan — Very; extremely; excessively

တိတ်ဆိတ်

tite seit — Quiet; silent; peaceful; still

နီပါ

ni pa — Nipa palm; tropical coastal palm tree

ကျေနပ်

kyay nat — Satisfied; content; pleased

တစ်ဖက်

tit bhet — One side; the other side

ကမ်း

kan — Shore; bank; riverbank; coast

ရယ်မော

yeh maw — To laugh; to giggle; to chuckle

စေ

say — To cause; to let; to make do

တစ်ခုခု

tit khu khu — Something; anything; some thing

မီးဖိုချောင်

mi hpo chaung — Kitchen; cooking area of a house

စားပွဲ

sa bweh — Dining table; desk; table

အိမ်စာ

ein sa — Homework; schoolwork done at home

လုပ်

lote — To do; to make; to work

မျက်စိ

myet si — Eye; eyesight

မော့

maw' — To look up; to raise one's eyes

ကြည့်

kji' — To look; to watch; to see

မိခင်

mi khin — Mother; female parent

မျက်နှာ

myet hna — Face; countenance; facial expression

ဖတ်

hpat — To read; to recite text

ဖို့

hpo' — For; in order to; purpose particle

ကြိုး

kyo — Rope; cord; string; effort

စား

sa — To eat; to consume food

မာလေ

ma lay — Malay; relating to Malay people

ဝင်းဒိုး

win do — Window; opening in a wall

သို့

tho' — To; towards; in the direction of

လှည့်

hlyeh — To turn; to rotate; to spin

သွား

thwa — To go; to depart; teeth

မို့

mo' — Because; therefore; causal particle

ဝှက်

hwet — To hide; to conceal; secret

ထား

hta — To place; to keep; to put aside

သလို

tha lo — As if; like; seeming; similar to

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be; to become; to happen

သော်

thaw — Although; but; however; concessive particle

ပခုံး

pa khone — Shoulder; upper arm area

ဖြေ

hpyay — To answer; to reply; to respond

လျော့

lyaw' — To decrease; to lessen; to reduce

ဒါ

da — This; that; this thing

များ

mya — Many; plural marker; more

အားဖြင့်

a hpyin — By means of; through; in terms of

လုံလောက်

lone lauk — Enough; sufficient; adequate

အထောက်အကြံ

a htauk a kjan — Advice; suggestion; counsel; recommendation

တတ်

tat — To be able; to know how; habitual

အိမ်

ein — House; home; dwelling

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko dine — Oneself; personally; by oneself

အဲဒီ

eh di — That; there; that place or thing

နေထိုင်

nay htine — To live; to reside; to dwell

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; above; on top

နားလည်

na leh — To understand; to comprehend

ပို

po — More; to send; to be more than

လွယ်ကူ

lweh ku — Easy; simple; not difficult

အဘိုး

a bo — Grandfather; old man; value; price

စစ်

sit — War; military; to check; genuine

နောက်

nauk — After; behind; next; later

နှစ်

hnit — Year; two; a pair

သူ့

thu' — His; her; of him or her

ဘဝ

ba wa — Life; existence; living condition

တစ်ချိန်

tit chein — Once; at one time; at some point

ကာလ

ka la — Period; era; time duration

တည်း

teh — Alone; only; to stay overnight

ထူထောင်

htu htaung — To establish; to found; to build up

ဆက်ဆံရေး

set san yay — Relationship; connection; dealings with others

အသုံးပြု

a thone pyu — To use; to utilize; to apply

တဖြည်းဖြည်း

ta hpyi hpyi — Gradually; slowly; little by little

ရှာဖွေ

sha hpway — To search; to look for; to explore

ကျွန်း

kjun — Island; isle

သား

tha — Son; child; offspring; flesh; meat

တိုင်

tine — Pole; pillar; to reach; to report

တစ်ချောင်း

tit chaung — One long object; a single stick

တည်ဆောက်

ti zauk — To build; to construct; to establish

ပေ

pay — Foot (unit); to give; particle

မယ့်

meh — Future tense marker particle

ဘယ်တော့

beh taw — When; at what time; ever

မှ

hma — From; since; only then; particle

အပြည့်အဝ

a pyi a wa — Fully; completely; entirely; to the fullest

ရှင်းပြ

shin pya — To explain; to clarify; to describe

ဟုတ်

hote — Yes; correct; true; right

ဘူး

bu — Negative past particle; never; not ever

ရလဒ်

ya lat — Result; outcome; consequence

တစ်ချို့

tit cho' — Some; certain; a few; several

လေးလံ

lay lan — Heavy; burdensome; weighty

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix for actions or cases

ဆောင်

saung — To carry; to bear; to hold; hall

တစ်လုံး

tit lone — One unit; a whole; one piece

လာ

la — To come; arrival directional particle

အသစ်

a thit — New; fresh; brand new

ဆွဲငင်အား

sweh ngin a — Gravity; force of attraction

တစ်ရပ်

tit yat — One stop; a certain place or stage

သူတို့

thu do' — They; them; third-person plural pronoun

ဆင်းသက်

sin thet — To descend from; originate; derived from

သစ်ပင်

thit pin — Tree; woody plant

မှတ်မိ

hmat mi — To remember; to recall; to recollect

ထို

hto — That; those; demonstrative pronoun

သည်းခံ

thin khan — To endure; to be patient; to tolerate

ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်

pone tha dan — Shape; form; appearance; figure

သစ်

thit — Wood; timber; tree; new

ယူ

yu — To take; to bring; to carry away

ကြမ်းပြင်

kjan pyin — Floor; ground surface; rough surface

ကျယ်ပြော

kyeh pyaw — Spacious; wide; broad; extensive

ပြား

pya — Flat; thin flat piece; classifier

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by; using; instrumental particle

ခင်း

khin — To spread out; to lay flat; expanse

ဆယ်စု

seh su — Decade; group of ten; ten years

ပေါင်း

paung — To add; to combine; total; together

များစွာ

mya zwa — Many; a great number; numerous

လူ

lu — Person; human being; people

နင်း

nin — To step on; to tread on

နှင့်

hnin — With; and; together with

ကြောင့်

kjaung' — Because of; due to; causal particle

ဆီ

si — Oil; towards; to; in the direction of

ပိတ်

pite — To close; to shut; to block

ရှည်လျား

shi lya — Long; lengthy; elongated

ထောင့်

htaung' — Corner; angle; nook

လျက်

lyet — While doing; simultaneous action particle

ဝင်ရောက်

win yauk — To enter; to go inside; to come in

မိုးနု

mo nu — Young rain; light early rain; drizzle

ဓာတ်ရောင်

dat yaung — Light ray; radiation; beam of light

သီးခြား

thi kja — Separate; distinct; individual; apart

အနှစ်သာရ

a hnit tha ya — Essence; substance; core meaning

မှောင်မဲ

hmaung meh — Dark; gloomy; dim; without light

တယ်ရာကော့တာ

teh ya kaw ta — Terra cotta; baked clay material

အမိုး

a mo — Roof; covering overhead; shelter top

လက်ထက်

let htet — Era; reign; time period; in one's time

စ

sa — To begin; to start; beginning

နှစ်ကြိမ်

hnit kjein — Twice; two times

ပြင်ဆင်

pyin zin — To prepare; to repair; to fix; to adjust

အဓိက

a di ka — Main; principal; chief; most important

တိုင်မျော

tine myaw — Totem pole; carved wooden pole

မူရင်း

mu yin — Original; source; primary version

ပင်

pin — Indeed; even; plant; emphasizing particle

ပူပြင်း

pu pyin — Hot; scorching; burning heat

ည

nya — Night; nighttime

တစ်ခါ

tit kha — Once; one time; at one occasion

တစ်ရံ

tit yan — Sometimes; occasionally; once in a while

သစ်သား

thit tha — Wood; timber; wooden material

ကျုံ့

kyoun' — To shrink; to contract; to huddle

တိတ်တဆိတ်

tite ta seit — Secretly; quietly; without making noise

နှိုးဆော်

hno zaw — To inspire; to motivate; to arouse

သေးငယ်

thay ngeh — Small; tiny; little; miniature

ကြား

kja — Between; among; to hear; gap

ခေါက်

khauk — To knock; to fold; to bend; noodles

သည်

thi — Subject or topic marker particle

၏

(ei) — Formal possessive particle in written Burmese

အိပ်ရာ

eit ya — Bed; sleeping place; bedding

ခြေရင်း

chay yin — Foot of the bed; foot end; base

အိပ်

eit — To sleep; to rest; to lie down

စိုက်

soit — To plant; to grow; to cultivate; to stare