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Vocabulary

မာလီ

ma li — Mali; also a common Burmese female name

သည်

thì — Grammatical particle marking subject or present tense

ဤ

i — This; formal demonstrative pronoun for nearby reference

ဖြစ်ရပ်

hpyit yat — Event, incident, or occurrence

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; also 'to' or 'toward'

သူမ

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

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko dine — Oneself; personally, by oneself

ဝန်ခံ

wun khan — To admit, confess, or acknowledge something

မိ

mi — To catch, grasp; verb complement indicating success

မှီ

hmi — To rely on, depend on, or reach up to

ရက်သတ္တပတ်

yet thatta bat — Week; a period of seven days

အနည်းငယ်

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

ကြာ

kja — To take time, last long; duration

အောင်

aung — Successfully, so as to achieve; success particle

ကြည့်ရှု

kji shu — To watch, observe, or look after carefully

နေ

ne — To live, stay, reside; continuative aspect particle

ခဲ့

kheh — Past tense particle indicating completed action

သည်။

thì — Sentence-final present tense marker with full stop

စတင်

sa tin — To begin, start, commence

ကတည်းက

ga deh ga — Since, ever since a particular point in time

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun meaning own self

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; self; first-person informal pronoun

ဘာမျှ

ba hmya — Nothing at all; not anything whatsoever

မဟုတ်

ma hout — Is not; negation of identity or existence

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'as'

ပြောဆို

pyaw so — To say, speak, or express verbally

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing something

ကြိုးစား

kjo za — To try hard, make effort, strive

ခွေး

khweh — Dog; domestic canine animal

များ

mya — Plural marker; many, a lot

တံခါး

dan kha — Door, gate, entrance

နား

na — Ear; also to rest, pause near something

တွင်

twin — In, at, inside; locative particle

ထိုင်

htine — To sit, be seated

တတ်

tat — To know how to; habitually does; skilled at

ကြ

kja — Plural verb particle; action done by group

၎င်း

da gin — It, he, she, they; formal third-person pronoun

သဘာဝ

tha ba wa — Nature; natural state or character

အလိုလို

a lo lo — Automatically, naturally, of its own accord

ဆောင်ရွက်

saung ywet — To carry out, perform, conduct an action

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix creating abstract nouns from verbs

သာ

tha — Only, just; emphasis or limitation particle

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, become, happen, occur

မြင်

myin — To see, perceive visually

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; potential or completion marker

သည့်

thì — Relative clause marker attributing action to noun

အတိုင်း

a tine — According to, as per, in accordance with

အဓိပ္ပာယ်

a dei peh — Meaning, significance, definition of a word

ရှိ

shi — To exist, have, be present

ပြီး

pyi — After completing; already done; and then

ထို

hto — That; formal demonstrative pronoun for distant reference

ထက်

htet — Than; comparative particle indicating greater degree

ပို

po — More; to a greater degree or amount

မ

ma — Negation prefix; not, don't

ဆို

so — To say, quote; conditional or topic marker

လို

lo — To want, need; like, similar to

ကြောင်း

kjaung — Nominalizing particle indicating reason or reported speech

ယုံကြည်

youn kji — To believe, trust, have faith in

သို့

thó — To, toward; directional particle

သော်

thaw — Although, but; concessive or conditional conjunction

ခေါ်

khaw — To call, invite, summon someone

၏

ei — Possessive or genitive particle meaning 'of' or 's

စောင့်ဆိုင်း

saung sine — To wait, wait patiently for something or someone

သဘော

tha baw — Meaning, sense, idea; disposition or nature

ရှင်းလင်းချက်

shin lin chet — Explanation, clarification, clear account of something

တွန်းလှန်

tun hlan — To resist, push back, counter, oppose

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle modifying a noun

အရာ

a ya — Thing, object, matter, item

တစ်ခု

ta khu — One thing; a single item or unit

သူ

thu — He, she, they; third-person pronoun

စိတ်

seit — Mind, heart, feeling, emotion

ငြိမ်

njein — Calm, still, quiet, peaceful

သက်

thet — Life, age; also breath or relief particle

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix turning verbs into abstract nouns

ပေ။

pe — Sentence-final emphasis particle with full stop

သေချာ

the cha — Sure, certain, definite, reliable

ရေရာ

ye ya — Clear, definite, unambiguous, certain

ကြောင့်

kjaung — Because of, due to, on account of

နာကျင်

na kjin — To hurt, be in pain, feel sore

ဖူး

hpu — Experience particle indicating done before; blossom

တိရစ္ဆာန်

ta yit san — Animal, beast, creature

စိုးရိမ်

so yein — To worry, be anxious or concerned about

တကြည့်ကြည့်

ta kji kji — Gazing steadily, staring fixedly at something

မျှော်လင့်

hmyaw lin — To hope, expect, look forward to

ကဲ့

keh — Like, as if; comparison particle

မျှော်လင့်ချက်

hmyaw lin chet — Hope, expectation, something looked forward to

လည်း

leh — Also, too, as well; additive particle

ဟုတ်

hout — Yes, correct, true; affirmative response

တည်ရှိ

teh shi — To exist, be present, be located somewhere

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed; emphatic particle reinforcing statement

ရိုးရှင်း

yo shin — Simple, plain, uncomplicated, straightforward

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning 'in a ... manner'

နေရာ

ne ya — Place, location, spot, position

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with; connective particle

တို့

to — Plural pronoun suffix; we, they, you all

တူညီ

tu nyi — Same, identical, equal, alike

အချက်

a chet — Point, key point, fact, detail

အစိတ်အပိုင်း

a seit a pine — Part, component, portion, section of something

တစ်

ta — One; the numeral one or indefinite article

ညနေ၊

nya ne — Evening, afternoon; time before sunset with comma

နှစ်ဖက်

hnit hpet — Both sides, both parties, two sides

လက်

let — Hand, arm; also a counter for rounds

ဈေး

ze — Market, bazaar; price, cost

အိတ်

eit — Bag, sack, pocket, pouch

အတူ

a tu — Together, at the same time, jointly

ဖြတ်

hpyat — To cut through, pass through, cross

ကာ

ka — While doing; continuous or simultaneous action particle

ဝင်

win — To enter, go in, come inside

လာ

la — To come; directional or change-of-state particle

စဉ်

sin — During, while, throughout a period of time

သူ့

thu — His, her; possessive form of third-person pronoun

မြဲမြဲ

myeh myeh — Firmly, steadily, constantly, persistently

တွေ့ရှိ

tweh shi — To find, discover, come across something

လိုက်

lait — To follow, go along; directional verb complement

ဆီ

si — Toward, in the direction of; oil

မော့

maw — To raise, lift up; to look upward

ကြည့်

kji — To look, watch, observe, glance at

ရာ

ya — Nominalizing particle; place; hundred (in numbers)

မျက်နှာထား

myet hna da — Facial expression, demeanor, look on face

တစ်ကောင်

ta kaung — One animal; classifier for counting animals

က

ga — Subject marker particle; from; nominative case

ဆောင်ကြဉ်း

saung kjin — To bring, convey, carry toward someone

နိုင်

nain — To be able to, can; potential marker

မျှ

hmya — Only, merely, as much as; equalizing particle

ဆုံးရှုံး

zone shone — To lose, suffer loss, be defeated

နိမ့်ကျ

nein kja — To decline, fall, drop, be lowered

သော်လည်း

thaw leh — However, nevertheless, although, even so

ကပ်လျက်

kat lyet — Adjacent to, right next to, closely beside

မြင်တွေ့

myin tweh — To see, catch sight of, visually encounter

ပြန်လည်

pyan leh — Back, again, returning to a previous state

ညှိနှိုင်း

hnji hnine — To negotiate, coordinate, discuss and adjust

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, reach, get to a place

သိရှိ

thi shi — To know, be aware of, understand something

လက်ခံ

let khan — To accept, receive, welcome something or someone

တနင်္ဂနွေ

ta nin ga nwe — Sunday; first day of the Burmese week

နေ့

neh — Day; daytime

မည်

myi — Future tense marker; will, shall

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, tell, talk

စကား

sa ka — Words, speech, language, conversation

စီစဉ်

si sin — To arrange, plan, organize, prepare

ထား

hta — To place, put; resultative state marker

တစ်နည်း

ta neh — One way; alternatively, in another way

နည်း

neh — Way, method, means; few, little

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With, by means of; instrumental particle

နားဆင်

na sin — To listen, pay attention to sounds or speech

သိ

thi — To know, understand, be aware of

တစ်ဦး

ta u — One person; classifier for counting people

ထံ

htan — At, near, toward a person; dative particle

မြဲ

myeh — Firm, lasting, permanent, steadfast

တွေ့

tweh — To meet, encounter, find, come across

အခါ

a kha — Time, occasion, when; temporal particle

သင်

thin — You; second-person pronoun; also to learn

လှုပ်ရှား

hlout sha — To move, be active, stir, be in motion

ထင်ရှား

htin sha — Clear, obvious, apparent, prominent

အသံ

a than — Sound, voice, noise

ဦးတည်

u nyi — To aim at, head toward, target something

ချိန်ညှိ

chein hnji — To adjust, calibrate, fine-tune, balance

လေး

leh — Four; endearment suffix; heavy; little

ချ

cha — To lower, put down, deposit; downward action

အပြည့်အဝ

a pyin a wa — Fully, completely, entirely, to the fullest

ဖွင့်လှစ်

hpwin hlit — To open up, inaugurate, reveal, disclose

ညနေ

nya ne — Evening, late afternoon before sunset

နေဝင်

ne win — Sunset; the sun setting in the west

ချိန်

chein — Time, moment; to weigh, measure, adjust

အလင်းရောင်

a lin yaung — Light, ray of light, brightness

ခဏတာ

kha na da — Briefly, momentarily, for a short while

ရပ်တန့်

yat tan — To stop, halt, come to a standstill

ဝင်း

win — Compound, yard, enclosure; to glow or shine

ထောင့်

htaung — Corner, angle, nook

နှင်းဆီ

hnin si — Rose; the flower rosa

ပန်းပင်

pan pin — Flower plant, flowering bush or shrub

ထပ်မံ

htat man — Again, once more, additionally, repeatedly

ပွင့်ဖူး

pwin hpu — Blossom, flower bud; to bloom for first time

စ

sa — To begin, start; initial verb particle

ပြု

pyu — To do, make, perform, act

အဆိတ်ချွတ်

a seit chut — Thorn, prickle, sharp spine on a plant

ကိုင်း

kine — Branch, bough of a tree; to bend down

ဖျားနား

hpya na — To be sick, ill, unwell, fall ill

ဖြူဖွေး

hpyu hpweh — Pure white, brilliantly white, snowy white

ပန်း

pan — Flower, blossom; also to be tired

နှစ်ပွင့်

hnit pwin — Two blossoms, two flowers

သုံးပွင့်

thone pwin — Three blossoms, three flowers

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, above, upon; to appear, emerge

အနံ့

a nan — Smell, scent, aroma, fragrance or odor

ငြိမ်ကျ

njein kja — To become quiet, calm down, settle, subside

လေထု

le htu — Atmosphere, air, the surrounding air mass

မှိန်ဖျော့

hmein hpyaw — Dim, faint, soft, subdued in light or color

ဆဲ

zeh — Still, yet, in the midst of doing; ongoing