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Vocabulary

သူမသည်

thu-ma-thì — She (subject marker); referring to a female subject

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun

မီးဖိုချောင်

mee-pho-chaung — Kitchen; room where cooking takes place

တွင်းတွင်

twìn-twìn — Inside; within a space or area

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun indicating self

မိခင်

mi-jin — Mother; female parent

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; conjunction connecting words or phrases

ဘေးချင်း

bè-jìn — Side by side; next to each other

ယှဉ်

shin — To compete; to compare; to be alongside

လုပ်ကိုင်

loat-kaing — To work; to engage in an occupation

နေစဉ်

nè-zin — While; during the time of doing something

ပြောဆို

pyaw-hsò — To speak; to say; to converse

နိုင်

naing — Can; to be able to; to win

သကဲ့သို့

tha-gèh-thò — As if; just like; in the manner of

ပင်

pin — Indeed; even; emphatic particle

သူ့

thu — His; her; possessive form of third person

အား

à — Object marker; strength; to; for

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker; went; did previously

သည်

thì — Subject marker; present tense particle

တို

tò — Short; brief; plural marker suffix

တောင်း

taung — To request; to ask for; to beg

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that; which

အကြည့်

a-kjì — A look; a gaze; act of looking

များ

myà — Many; plural marker; more

လက်တွေ့

let-twè — Practical; hands-on; real-world application

ကျ

kja — To fall; to drop; resultative verb particle

မှတ်ချက်

hmat-chjet — Comment; remark; observation or note

စိတ်

seit — Mind; heart; feeling; mental state

တွင်

twìn — In; at; within; locative particle

မှန်မှန်

hmàn-hmàn — Correctly; regularly; in a proper manner

ကန်ကန်

kan-kan — Properly; appropriately; in order

အခြေချ

a-chè-hcha — To settle; to establish a base or foundation

ရန်

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

အသံ

a-thàn — Sound; voice; noise

ထွက်

htwet — To go out; to exit; to emerge

လို

lo — To want; to need; to be like

အပ်

at — To submit; to entrust; needle

ကြောင်း

kjaung — Clause-final particle indicating reason or statement

ခံစား

khan-zà — To feel; to experience; to perceive emotionally

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; can; resultative particle

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; item

မိုး

mò — Rain; sky; to rain

ရွာ

ywa — Village; to rain (colloquial)

မလာ

ma-la — Does not come; negative of 'to come'

မီ

mi — Before; in time; to catch up with

သရက်

tha-yet — Mango; tropical fruit tree

ကို

go — Object marker; direct object particle

ဖြတ်

phyat — To cut; to pass through; to cross

ထား

htà — To keep; to place; to maintain (verb suffix)

မည်

mji — Future tense marker; will; shall

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not; no

ဟုတ်

hout — Yes; correct; to be true or right

ပါ

pa — Polite particle; also; to include

က

ga — Subject marker particle; from; by

အကိုင်း

a-kaing — Branch; twig of a tree or plant

ထပ်မံ

htat-man — Again; once more; additionally

ကျိုး

kjò — To break; to snap; broken

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward speaker

လမ်း

làn — Road; path; way; street

ပေါ်ရှိ

paw-shi — Located on top of; situated on a surface

ဆန်

hsàn — Rice (uncooked); to go against; upstream

ရောင်း

yaung — To sell; to trade goods

သူ

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

နှင်းဆီ

hnìn-zi — Rose; flowering plant with thorns

ထဲ

htè — Inside; within; into

သို့

thò — To; toward; in the direction of

ရေ

yè — Water; liquid; sentence particle (spoken)

ထည့်

hteh — To put in; to add; to insert

နေ

nè — To live; to stay; sun; continuous aspect marker

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; saying that; thus

ထင်

htin — To think; to suppose; to appear

ချက်

chjet — Cooking; a point; immediately; instantly

သည့်

thìh — Relative clause particle; that which; the one that

အခါ

a-kha — Time; occasion; when; at the time of

ကျက်

kjet — To memorize; to be cooked; to be ripe

ဘူး

bù — Negative experiential particle; never; not ever

သင်

thìn — You; to teach; to learn

၏

e — Possessive particle; genitive marker (formal)

ကျောင်း

kjaung — School; monastery; educational institution

ဖိနပ်

phnat — Shoe; footwear; sandal

စာ

sa — Letter; writing; book; lesson

ခန်း

khàn — Room; hall; chapter; dry up

ရှေ့

Front; ahead; before; in front of

ကာ

ka — Continuative particle; while doing; fence

အောက်

aut — Below; under; beneath; lower

ချ

hcha — To put down; to lower; to place

လူသား

lu-thà — Human being; mankind; humanity

သော်လည်း

thaw-lè — However; although; nevertheless; but

အနည်း

a-nje — A few; a little; small amount

ဆုံး

hsòun — To end; most; to perish; -est (superlative)

တော့

taw — Then; now; discourse particle; well then

အလေး

a-lè — Weight; heaviness; seriousness; emphasis

အနက်

a-net — Meaning; depth; dark color

အာရုံ

a-yon — Attention; sensation; sense; focus

စိုက်

seit — To plant; to cultivate; to focus attention

မှု

hmu — Nominalization suffix; matter; affair; act

ဖြင့်

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

နား

nà — Ear; to rest; to pause; near

ထောင်

htaung — To listen; thousand; prison; to erect

လေ့

lè — Habit; custom; practice; usually does

ရှိ

shi — To have; to exist; to be present

နာမည်

na-mji — Name; title; reputation

သံ

thàn — Sound; tone; iron; metal

ကြား

kjà — To hear; between; among; interval

လှုပ်ရှား

hlyut-shà — To move; to be active; movement; activity

သွား

thwà — To go; tooth; directional verb away from speaker

မျက်လုံး

mjet-lòun — Eye; eyeball

မှောင်

hmaung — Dark; darkness; gloomy

မိုက်

maik — Dark; stupid; foolish (informal)

ပြီး

pji — After; finished; already; completion marker

တည်

tì — To be stable; to establish; to remain

ငြိမ်

njain — Quiet; still; calm; peaceful

လျက်

ljet — While; continuative particle; doing simultaneously

သူမ

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

မျက်နှာ

mjet-hna — Face; countenance; facial expression

ပေါ်

paw — On top of; above; to appear; surface

စကား

za-gà — Word; speech; language; conversation

လည်

lè — Also; too; to revolve; neck; to visit

ဖြစ်

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

စေ

ze — To cause; to let; to make someone do

ထို

htò — That; those; demonstrative pronoun (formal)

အချက်

a-chjet — Point; detail; key element; signal

အဓိက

a-di-ga — Main; principal; most important

ပေ

pè — Particle asserting obviousness; foot (measurement)

အရာရာ

a-ya-ya — Everything; all things; every matter

လက်ခံ

let-khàn — To accept; to receive; to acknowledge

တူညီ

tu-nji — Same; identical; equal; alike

တိတ်ဆိတ်

teit-hseit — Silent; quiet; still; deserted

လေး

lè — Four; heavy; dear; emphasizing particle

နက်

net — Deep; profound; dark (color)

မွန်းလွဲ

mòun-lwè — Afternoon; post-noon time of day

လျှောက်

hljauk — To walk; to stroll; to apply (formally)

ချိန်

chein — Time; moment; to weigh; to aim

တစ်

tit — One; a; an; single

နေ့

nè — Day; daytime

တာ

ta — Nominalization particle; that; the fact that

၌

hnit — At; in; locative particle (formal/written)

သူတို့

thu-dò — They; them; third person plural pronoun

အပြည့်

a-pji — Full; complete; completely; fully

အဝ

a-wa — Full; satiated; completely filled

မျှ

hmja — Only; just; as much as; equally

ဝေ

wè — To share; to distribute; to divide

ခု

khu — Now; currently; classifier for objects

တည်း

tì — Only; alone; solely; restrictive particle

အချိန်

a-chein — Time; period; moment; duration

ပိုင်း

paing — Part; section; to divide; aspect

နာရီ

na-yi — Hour; clock; watch; timepiece

အပူ

a-pu — Heat; warmth; hotness

အပြင်း

a-pjìn — Intensity; fierceness; strongly; severely

ထန်

htan — Strong; intense; severe; fierce

လျော့

hljauh — To decrease; to reduce; to lessen

ဥယျာဉ်

u-yin — Garden; park; orchard

နံရံ

nàn-yan — Wall; partition inside a building

မှ

hma — From; since; only then; ablative particle

အရိပ်

a-yeit — Shadow; shade; reflection

လောက်

lauk — About; approximately; enough; as much as

အောင်

aung — In order to succeed; until; so that

ဆွဲ

hswe — To pull; to drag; to attract

ဆန့်

hsàn — To stretch; to extend; to resist; to oppose

တံခါး

tan-kha — Door; gate; entrance

ဘေး

bè — Side; beside; danger; hazard

ကြိုး

kjò — Rope; string; cord; to try hard

ကောက်

kauk — To pick up; to collect; paddy rice

ယူ

yu — To take; to carry; to get

ခေါ်

khaw — To call; to name; to invite; to summon

လုပ်

loat — To do; to make; to perform an action

ချောင်း

chaung — Stream; creek; throat; channel

ထူ

htu — Thick; dense; to stand up; erect

ဖြောင့်

phjaung — Straight; upright; honest; direct

မတ်

mat — Upright; March (month); standing straight

စွာ

zwa — Adverbial suffix; with; in a manner of

ထိုင်

htaing — To sit; to be seated

ပြီ

pji — Already; completion marker; done; finished

ပေး

pè — To give; to provide; to offer

ရည်ရွယ်

yi-ywe — To intend; to aim at; to have a purpose

မေ့

mè — To forget; to be forgetful

ပျောက်

pyauk — To disappear; to be lost; to vanish

ပိတ်

peit — To close; to shut; to block; closed

လက်

let — Hand; arm; handle; classifier for actions

ဖက်

phet — To embrace; to hold; side; direction

ကဲ့သို့

gèh-thò — Like; similar to; in the way of

ချိုး

chò — To bend; to break; to fold; to violate

ဘဲ

bè — Without; not doing; duck; negative manner particle

ဆောင်

hsaung — To carry; to bring; to perform; to bear

ကျဉ်း

kjìn — Narrow; tight; confined space

ဆန္ဒ

hsanda — Desire; wish; will; intention; aspiration

ကွဲပြား

kwèh-pyà — Different; distinct; to differ; to vary

ပါဝင်

pa-wìn — To participate; to be included; to involve

သည်းခံ

thìn-khàn — To be patient; to endure; to tolerate

စောင့်

hsaung — To wait; to guard; to watch over

တိုင်း

taing — Every; each; region; to measure; country

လမ်းကြောင်း

làn-kjaung — Route; course; path; direction of travel