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Vocabulary

အိမ်

ein — House, home, or dwelling place

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; also used as 'to'

မာလီ

ma li — Mali; a personal name or country name

၏

e — Possessive or linking particle (formal/literary)

ဖခင်

hpa hkin — Father, male parent

က

ka — Subject marker particle in a sentence

သူ

thu — He, she, or that person (third person)

သုံးနှစ်

thone hnit — Three years old or three-year period

ပြည့်

pyay — Full, complete, or to reach an age

သည့်

thay — Relative clause marker (past/present)

နှစ်

hnit — Year; also the number two

တွင်

twain — In, at, within (location marker)

တည်ဆောက်

teh zauk — To build, construct, or establish something

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense marker indicating completed action

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker (literary/formal style)

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to, owing to

သူမ

thu ma — She, her (feminine third person pronoun)

မရှိ

ma shi — Does not exist, there is none

သေး

thay — Not yet; still (negation intensifier)

ကာလ

ka la — Period of time, era, or age

မှတ်မိ

hmut mi — To remember, to recall something

စစ်မှန်

sit hmun — Genuine, authentic, true, or real

အမှတ်တရ

a hmut ta ya — Memory, keepsake, or something memorable

ပေ

pay — Emphatic or assertive sentence-final particle

သည်

thit — Present tense or topic marker particle

ထို

hto — That, those (demonstrative, formal/literary)

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat lan — Story, narrative, plot, or tale

သိ

thi — To know, to be aware of something

မကြာခဏ

ma kya hka na — Often, frequently, many times

ပြောဆို

pyaw so — To speak, to say, to talk about

လေ့

leh — Habitual action marker; tend to do

ရှိ

shi — To exist, to have, to be present

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With, by means of, using (instrumental particle)

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself, one's own (reflexive pronoun)

ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာ

ko khan da — Body, physical body or form

တစ်စိတ်

ta seit — A part of, a portion of something

တစ်ပိုင်း

ta pine — One part, a section or portion

ဖြစ်သွား

hpyit thwa — To become, to turn into something

များ

mya — Many, plural marker, or more than one

လို

lo — To need, want, or like something

ပင်

pin — Emphatic particle meaning 'indeed' or 'even'

မြောက်ဘက်

myauk bek — North, northern direction or side

ခရိုင်

kha yain — District, administrative region or township

စက်ရုံ

set yone — Factory, plant, or manufacturing facility

တစ်ခု

ta khu — One (thing), a single unit or item

မှ

hma — From, since, out of (source marker)

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko tain — Oneself, personally, by one's own hand

ရွေးချယ်

yway chyeh — To choose, select, or pick something

ကျွန်း

kyun — Island surrounded by water

သစ်တိုင်

thit tain — Wooden post or timber pillar

ပထမ

pa hta ma — First, the very first in order

မိုးရာသီ

moe ya thi — Rainy season, monsoon period

တိုင်

tain — Post, pillar; also 'until' or 'up to'

တစ်ချောင်း

ta chaung — One piece or stick of something long

မှားယွင်းစွာ

hma ywin zwa — Wrongly, incorrectly, in a mistaken way

တည်ငြိမ်

teh nyein — Stable, calm, firm, or steady

သွား

thwa — To go; also directional verb complement

အရှေ့ဘက်

a shay bek — East, eastern direction or side

နံရံ

nan yan — Wall of a building or room

ဆီ

si — Towards, in the direction of; also oil

အနည်းငယ်

a nee ngeh — A little, a small amount, slightly

မျှ

hmya — Only, just, as much as (limiter)

စောင်း

saung — To lean, tilt, or slant to one side

နေ

nay — To live, stay, be; also the sun

ကြမ်းပြင်

kyam pyin — Floor or ground surface of a room

နှစ်လက်

hnit let — Two hands or both hands together

မြှောက်

hmyauk — To lift, raise up with both hands

ပြီး

pyi — After, finished, done (completion marker)

တစ်ချိန်တည်း

ta chein teh — At the same time, simultaneously

နှိပ်

hnit — To press, push, or click something

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; ability marker 'can'

သီးသန့်

thi than — Separate, exclusive, private, or individual

နည်းပညာ

nee pyin nya — Technology, technique, or technical knowledge

လိုအပ်

lo ut — To need, require, be necessary

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence particle; also 'too/also'

တံခါးဦးကြီး

ta kha u ji — Main entrance gate or front door

မိသားစုဝင်

mi tha zu win — Family member, member of household

တိုင်း

tain — Every, each time; also region or state

ငယ်ငယ်

ngeh ngeh — Young, childhood, while still very young

တည်းက

teh ga — Since, from that time onwards

တတ်မြောက်

tat myauk — To master, become skilled in something

ထား

hta — To place, put; to have done already

ဧည့်သည်

eh thi — Guest, visitor, or invited person

မှာ

hma — At, in, on (location); to order food

အမြဲတမ်း

a myeh tam — Always, forever, at all times

အခက်

a khut — Difficulty, hardship, trouble faced

ကြုံ

kyun — To encounter, face, or come across

တံခါးကြီး

ta kha ji — Big door or large gate

လေ

leh — Sentence particle expressing softness or surprise

ရာသီ

ya thi — Season of the year or menstrual cycle

နေရာ

nay ya — Place, location, position, or spot

အနံ့

a nan — Smell, scent, or odor of something

မိုး

moe — Rain; also the sky or heavens

ရွာ

ywa — Village, rural settlement; also to rain lightly

နောက်

nauk — After, later, behind, or next

ဥယျာဉ်

u yin — Garden, park, or orchard

ဆူညော

su nyaw — Noisy, loud, rowdy, or clamorous

အစိမ်းရောင်

a sein yaung — Green color

သစ်သား

thit tha — Wood, timber, or wooden material

နေ့

nay — Day, daytime, or a specific day

အပူ

a pu — Heat, warmth, or hot temperature

ည

nya — Night, nighttime

နက်

nut — Deep, dark, or profound

အထိ

a hti — Until, up to, as far as

ဆုပ်ကိုင်

zout kain — To hold tightly, grip, or grasp firmly

မတ်လ

mat la — March (the third month of the year)

ခြောက်သွေ့

chout thweh — Dry, dried out, arid, or desiccated

ဖုန်မှုန့်

hpon hmone — Dust, fine powder particles in air

ရော

yaw — Mix, blend; also question marker particle

နှော

hnaw — To mix, blend, or stir together

နွေးထွေး

nway tweh — Warm, cozy, comforting feeling or temperature

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix for actions or events

ဘယ်ဘက်

beh bek — Left side, the left direction

လမ်း

lan — Road, path, street, or way

ဘေး

beh — Side, beside, next to; also danger

တစ်လျောက်

ta lyauk — Along, throughout, the whole length of

တောင်း

taung — To ask for, request, or beg

မ

ma — Negation prefix meaning 'not' or 'don't'

ဆို

so — To say, state; quotation marker particle

ဘဲ

beh — Without doing; negative adverbial ending

ဧပြီလ

eh pyi la — April (the fourth month of the year)

ပွင့်

pwin — To bloom, open, or blossom (flower)

ကြ

kya — Plural verb marker; to do together

နှင်းဆီဝါ

hnin si wa — Yellow rose flower

ဖျော့ဖျော့

hpyaw hpyaw — Softly, gently, in a mild way

ချိုမြိန်

cho myein — Sweet, pleasant taste or fragrance

တို့

to — Plural pronoun marker; we, they, us

နီပါ

ni pa — Red (in color), reddish hue

ဤ

e — This (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

အရာ

a ya — Thing, matter, object, or subject

အားလုံး

a lone — All, everyone, everything, the whole

ထဲ

hteh — Inside, within, into a place or container

ရှင်းရှင်းလင်းလင်း

shin shin lin lin — Clearly, plainly, in a clear manner

မြင်

myin — To see, observe, or catch sight of

ကြီးပြင်း

ji pyin — To grow up, to be raised (childhood)

လာ

la — To come; directional verb complement 'toward'

ရေ

yay — Water; also an address particle

ရေကူး

yay ku — To swim in water

စဉ်

zin — While, during, at the time of

အရောင်

a yaung — Color or hue of something

နိုင်

nain — To be able to, can, capable of

နေထိုင်

nay htain — To live, reside, or dwell somewhere

ရာ

ya — Hundred; also nominalizing or adverbial suffix

သာ

tha — Only, just, merely (limiting particle)

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, to become, to happen

သမျှ

tha hmya — All, whatever, everything that exists

နောက်ခံ

nauk khan — Background, backdrop, or context

အခြေအနေ

a cheh a nay — Situation, condition, circumstances, or state

ခေါ

khaw — To call, name, or summon someone

သား

tha — Son; also softening sentence particle

ရောက်ရှိ

yauk shi — To arrive at, reach a destination

ကာ

ka — While doing; temporary state marker

ဘာသာစကား

ba tha za ga — Language, spoken tongue or dialect

နှိုင်းယှဉ်

hnain shin — To compare, contrast two things

စွမ်းရည်

zwan yeh — Ability, capability, skill, or competence

နားလည်

na leh — To understand, comprehend something

ပုံ

pone — Picture, image, shape, or pattern

အမှတ်အချက်

a hmut a chet — Landmark, notable point or marker

စုစည်းမှု

zu zin hmu — Collection, gathering, or assembly of things

အဖြစ်

a hpyit — As, in the role of, status of

တံခါး

ta kha — Door or gate of a building

ကုတင်

ku tain — Bed for sleeping on

ခြေရင်း

cheh yin — Foot of the bed or foot end