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Vocabulary

ဥယျာဉ်

u-yain — Garden or park, an outdoor cultivated space

တွင်

twine — In, at, within a place or time

ထောင့်

htaung — Corner or angle of a space

တစ်နေရာ

tit-nay-ya — A certain place, somewhere specific

ရှိ

shi — To exist, to be present somewhere

သည်

thì — Grammatical topic marker or present tense marker

သရက်ပင်

tha-yet-pin — Mango tree, common tropical fruit tree

၏

ei — Possessive or genitive particle meaning 'of'

နောက်ဘက်

nauk-bek — The back side or rear area

တွဲနွယ်

twè-nwè — Hanging and trailing, as vines or plants

နေသော

nay-thaw — Participle indicating continuous living or being

မယ်ကြူပင်

mè-kyù-pin — Jasmine plant, fragrant flowering shrub

ဖုံးအုပ်

phome-ouk — To cover or conceal something completely

ထားသည့်

hta-thì — Placed or kept, relative clause particle

အိုဟောင်း

o-haung — Old and worn out, aged and dilapidated

နံရံ

nan-yan — Wall of a building or structure

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One thing, a single item or unit

က

ka — Subject marker particle in a sentence

မွန်းတည့်

mun-tè — Midday, exactly noon when sun is overhead

နေ့

nay — Day or daytime

အပူ

a-pu — Heat, warmth or high temperature

မှ

hma — From, out of, starting point particle

ကာကွယ်

ka-kwè — To protect or defend against something harmful

ပေး

pay — To give or provide something to someone

အဆိုပါ

a-hsò-ba — The aforementioned, said or mentioned previously

နေရာ

nay-ya — Place, location or spot

မြေဆီ

myay-si — Soil, earth or ground layer for planting

အခြား

a-khya — Other, another, different from this one

နေရာများ

nay-ya-mya — Places, multiple locations or spots

ထက်

htet — Than, comparative particle indicating more or less

ပို

po — More, to a greater degree or extent

ကြာ

kya — To take time, to last a duration

အောင်

aung — Until achieving, particle indicating successful result

အေးမြ

ay-mya — Cool and refreshing, pleasantly cold

နေ

nay — To live, stay, or be in a state

တတ်

tat — Able to, tend to, habitual action marker

ထို

hto — That, those, demonstrative pronoun indicating distance

သူမ

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

ဆေးဖက်ဝင်

hsay-bet-win — Medicinal, having therapeutic or healing properties

အပင်များ

a-pin-mya — Plants, multiple vegetation or plant specimens

ကို

ko — Object marker particle in a sentence

စိုက်ပျိုး

sike-pyò — To cultivate or grow plants and crops

မြက်နံ့သာ

myet-nan-tha — Lemongrass, fragrant herb used in cooking

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, conjunction joining nouns or clauses

ဂဟော

ga-haw — Aloe vera, succulent plant with medicinal uses

ထို့အပြင်

hto-a-pyin — Furthermore, in addition to that, besides

ကော်ဖားရ်

kaw-pha — Camphor, aromatic substance from a tree

သံပရာ

than-ba-ya — Lime or lemon citrus fruit

သေးငယ်

thay-ngè — Small and tiny in size

ပြီး

pyi — After completing, done, finished with an action

ယုံကြည်

yone-kyi — To believe, trust or have faith in

စိတ်ချ

seit-kha — To feel at ease, reassured, confident

ရသော

ya-thaw — Which is received or obtained, relative participle

စုပုံ

su-pone — To accumulate or gather together in a pile

လည်း

lè — Also, too, as well, additive particle

ပင်

pin — Emphatic particle meaning indeed, even or also

ရွက်များ

ywet-mya — Leaves, multiple leaves of plants or trees

နီးပါး

ni-ba — Nearly, almost, approximately a certain amount

အရာ

a-ya — Thing, item, matter or object

အားလုံး

a-lone — All, everything, every single one

အသုံးပြု

a-thone-pyu — To use, utilize or make use of

သြောင်ရာသီ

thwaung-ya-thi — Hot season or summer period of year

အလယ်ပိုင်း

a-lè-pine — Middle part or central section of something

အရောက်

a-yauk — Arrival, reaching a destination or point

ခေါ

khaw — To call or summon someone by name

ဤ

i — This, formal demonstrative pronoun in writing

ရှာဖွေ

sha-phway — To search for or seek something out

တွေ့ရှိ

twè-shi — To find or discover something upon searching

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, reflexive pronoun meaning own self

နေ့လည်

nay-lè — Midday, noon or afternoon time period

ခိုအနားယူ

kho-a-na-yu — To rest and take shelter from something

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle, equivalent to 'that which'

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As, in the role of, becoming something

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-louk — To do, make or perform an action

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker indicating completed action

ရိပ်

yeit — Shade or shadow cast by an object

ထဲ

htè — Inside, within, into a space or container

လိပ်ခေါင်း

leit-gaung — Turtle or tortoise, shelled reptile animal

ငုံ

ngone — To tuck in head, withdraw into shell

၍

ywei — Therefore, because of that, connective particle

ဆိုးဆိုး

hso-hso — Badly, terribly, in a very poor manner

ဝါးဝါး

wa-wa — Dimly, faintly, in a blurry manner

အိပ်ပျော်

ait-pyaw — To fall asleep soundly

ဖြတ်ကျော်

phyat-kyaw — To pass through or cross over something

အခါ

a-kha — When, at the time of, occasion

နောက်ကွယ်

nauk-kwè — Behind, at the back, out of sight

ဖြူဖွေး

phyu-phway — Whitish, pale or light in color

ပုံသဏ္ဍာန်

pone-than-dan — Shape, form or physical appearance of something

မြင်

myin — To see or perceive visually

ကောင်း

kaung — Good, well, fine or excellent

မည်

myi — Future tense marker indicating will or shall

ဟူ

hu — Known as, called, quotative particle in writing

သာ

tha — Only, just, emphatic limiting particle

သူ့

thu — His, him, third person possessive pronoun

တိုက်ရိုက်

tike-yike — Directly, straight, without intermediary or detour

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma-hsone — First of all, the very first time

အကြိမ်

a-kyein — Time, occurrence, instance of an event

ပြောဆို

pyaw-hso — To speak or say something to someone

ညွှန်ကြားချက်

hnwan-kya-jet — Instruction or directive given to someone

ပိုမို

po-mo — More, even more, to a greater extent

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of, instrumental particle

ဖြတ်

phyat — To cut or pass through something quickly

ခပ်သိမ်း

kha-thein — All, every, each and every one

နည်း

nè — Method, way or technique of doing something

တူ

tu — Similar, alike, resembling something else

နည်းစနစ်ကျ

nè-sa-nit-kya — Systematic, methodical and orderly in approach

နည်းလမ်း

nè-lan — Method, procedure or way of doing something

ငယ်ရွယ်

ngè-ywè — Young, youthful in age or appearance

ဓားလေး

da-lay — Small knife or little blade

အလုပ်

a-louk — Work, job or task to be done

လုပ်

louk — To do or carry out an action

သူ

thu — He, him, third person masculine pronoun

ကြည့်

kyi — To look at or watch something or someone

ကြောင်း

kyaung — Indicates reason or reported speech in clauses

သိရှိ

thi-shi — To know or be aware of something

လာ

la — To come toward the speaker or location

တစ်ခုခု

tit-khu-khu — Something, anything, some unspecified thing

လိုချင်

lo-jin — To want or desire something

တိရစ္ဆာန်

tei-ya-hsan — Animal, creature of the animal kingdom

အာရုံစိုက်

a-yone-sike — To pay attention, focus on something carefully

ကြည့်ရှု

kyi-shu — To observe, watch or view something attentively

မှု

hmu — Nominalizer particle forming abstract nouns

မဟုတ်

ma-houk — Not, is not, negation of identity

ဘဲ

bè — Without doing, negative adverbial connector

တိတ်ဆိတ်

teit-hseit — Quiet, silent, still without sound

သတိပြုမှု

tha-ti-pyu-hmu — Mindfulness, carefulness or attentive awareness

ဖြစ်ပျက်

phyit-pyet — To happen, occur or take place

သည့်

thì — Relative particle linking clause to noun

အရာများ

a-ya-mya — Things, multiple objects or matters

တက်ရောက်

tet-yauk — To attend or participate in an event

လို

lo — To need, want or to be like

သဘော

tha-baw — Meaning, intention or disposition of someone

မျိုး

myo — Kind, type or sort of something

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become or happen

ဆက်လက်

hset-let — To continue or carry on with something

ခဏ

kha-na — A moment, a short while or briefly

မော့

maw — To look up, raise one's head upward

မကြည့်

ma-kyi — To not look, to avoid looking at

ပြော

pyaw — To speak or say something

မင်း

min — You, informal second person pronoun

ဆိုတာ

hso-ta — What is called, referring to something named

ထူးဆန်း

htu-hsan — Strange, unusual, extraordinary or peculiar

တဲ့

tè — Colloquial sentence final particle, reported speech

ပဲ

bè — Only, just, emphatic colloquial particle

လား

la — Question particle for yes-no questions

နားများ

na-mya — Ears, plural of ear body part

လှုပ်ရှား

hlouk-sha — To move or be active, to stir

သို့သော်

thò-thaw — However, but, nevertheless, contrasting conjunction

ရွှေ့

shway — To move or shift position of something

မခဲ့

ma-khè — Did not, negated past tense marker

ပေ

pay — Emphatic or softening sentence final particle

ဆိုးညံ့

hso-nyan — Poor quality, bad or inferior in standard

စွာ

swa — Adverbial particle meaning in a manner of

ရှင်းပြ

shin-pya — To explain or clarify something to someone

သိ

thi — To know or understand something

နားလည်

na-lè — To understand or comprehend something fully

ထားသော

hta-thaw — That which has been placed or kept

တောင်း

taung — To ask for or request something

ထည့်

htè — To put in or add something somewhere

မတ်တပ်

mat-tat — Standing upright, at attention, erect posture

ရပ်

yat — To stop or stand still in place

လိုက်

laik — To follow, accompany or go along with

တစ်ချိန်

tit-chain — At one time, once upon a time

တည်း

tè — Only, alone, emphatic limiting particle

မှာ

hma — At, in, on, locative particle

မှန်ကန်

hman-kan — Correct, accurate, right or proper

သမီး

tha-mi — Daughter, female child of parents

သည်းခံ

thìn-khan — To be patient, endure or tolerate something

ဆန္ဒပြုမှု

san-da-pyu-hmu — Desire, wish or act of wanting something

အပေါ်

a-paw — On top of, above, regarding something

ယုံကြည်မှု

yone-kyi-hmu — Trust, belief or confidence in someone

အိမ်

ein — House, home or dwelling place

သို့

thò — To, toward, directional particle

ဝင်ရောက်

win-yauk — To enter or come into a place

လာသော

la-thaw — That which has come, incoming or arriving

ခွေး

khway — Dog, domesticated canine animal

တည်ငြိမ်

tè-nyein — Stable, calm, steady and composed

မှောင်မိုက်

hmaung-maik — Dark, gloomy, lacking light

မျက်လုံးများ

myet-lone-mya — Eyes, plural of the eye body part

ပြန်ကြည့်

pyan-kyi — To look back or glance behind oneself

ကောင်းပြီ

kaung-pyi — Alright, okay, that's fine or good now

မည်သည့်

myi-thì — Whichever, whatever, any particular thing

သဘောတူ

tha-baw-tu — To agree or consent to something

ဆို

hso — To say, called, quotative verb particle

ရှင်းလင်း

shin-lin — Clear, evident and easy to understand

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing particle forming verbal nouns

မရှိ

ma-shi — Does not exist, to be absent or lacking

တစ်ချင်းချင်း

tit-chin-chin — One by one, individually or separately

ဆိုရ

hso-ya — To put it, speaking of, to say then

လျှင်

hlyìn — If, when, conditional particle in sentences

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-tine — Oneself, personally, by one's own hand

သေချာ

thay-kha — Certain, sure, definite or confirmed

မသိ

ma-thi — To not know or be unaware of

နိုင်

nine — Can, able to, capable of doing something

ညနေချမ်း

nya-nay-chan — Late afternoon or early evening, cool dusk

များ

mya — Many, plural marker or more in amount

မိသားစု

mi-tha-su — Family, household unit of related members

မုခ်ဦး

mouk-u — Gateway, entrance archway of a home

စားသောက်

sa-thawk — To eat and drink, consuming food and beverages

ကြ

kya — Plural verb particle indicating group action

နေဝင်

nay-win — Sunset, the time when the sun sets

နောက်

nauk — After, later, behind in time or space

လေ

lay — Softening or emphatic sentence final particle

အနည်းငယ်

a-nè-ngè — A little bit, a small amount

ဆပ်ကပ်ပင်

hsat-kat-pin — Soap plant, a plant yielding cleansing substance

အအေး

a-ay — Something cold, a cold or cool thing