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Vocabulary

တနင်္ဂနွေ

ta-nin-ga-nwe — Sunday, the first day of the week

ဟု

hku — Quotative particle meaning 'said that' or 'thus'

သူမ

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

က

ka — Subject marker particle in a sentence

တဖန်

ta-hpan — Again, once more, anew

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, or tell someone something

လိုက်

lite — To follow; directional complement indicating action along

သည်

thì — Present tense sentence-final particle or topic marker

ပို

po — More, even more; comparative intensifier

သောင်း

thaung — Ten thousand; a unit of counting

ပြီး

pyi — After completing; done, finished, then

တစ်

tit — One; the number one or indefinite article

ခုခု

khu-khu — Something, some unspecified thing or matter

ကို

ko — Object marker; accusative or directional particle

နှစ်

hnit — Two; also year as a unit of time

ကြိမ်

kyim — Time, instance, occasion; counter for repetitions

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix indicating an action or state

ဖြင့်

hpyin — By means of, with, using; instrumental particle

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself, one's own; reflexive pronoun

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; oneself, self; reflexive personal pronoun

အတည်

a-tì — Confirmation, certainty, official approval

ပြု

pyu — To do, make, perform, or cause something

သလို

tha-lo — Like, as if, similar to something

ပင်

pin — Indeed, even, just; emphatic particle

အိတ်

ait — Bag, sack, or pocket for carrying things

များ

mya — Many, plural marker; more, a lot

ကောက်

kout — To pick up, gather, or collect something

ယူ

yu — To take, carry, or bring something along

အထဲ

a-hte — Inside, within, into the interior of something

သို့

thò — To, toward; directional particle indicating destination

ဝင်

win — To enter, go in, come inside something

သွား

thwa — To go; directional verb indicating away movement

ခေါင်း

kaung — Head; the uppermost part of the body

အမြဲ

a-mye — Always, constantly, at all times

တမ်း

tan — Persistently, longingly; intensifier of desire or habit

လုပ်

lout — To do, work, perform, or carry out

ကဲ့သို့

kè-thò — Like, similar to, in the manner of

ထို

hto — That, those; demonstrative pronoun for distant reference

အချိန်

a-chain — Time, period, moment; a specific point in time

ကာလ

ka-la — Period, era, span of time

လုံးဝ

loun-wò — Completely, entirely, absolutely, at all

ကျော်

kyaw — To exceed, pass, cross over; famous, renowned

လွန်

lun — To pass, exceed, go beyond; excessively

ညနေ

nya-ne — Evening, late afternoon time of day

ခင်း

khin — To spread out; open expanse or surface area

စတင်

sa-tin — To start, begin, commence an action

အထိ

a-hti — Until, up to, as far as

မျက်နှာ

myit-hna — Face; the front of a person's head

ပြင်

pyin — Outside; to prepare, fix, repair something

တံခါး

tan-ga — Door, gate; an entryway into a building

နား

na — Ear; to rest, to listen or stop

တွင်

twin — In, at, within; locative particle

နောက်

nout — Behind, after, back; later in sequence

ထပ်

htat — Again, additionally; another floor or layer

ဝက်

wet — Pig; also half of something

မျှ

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

ဆက်

set — To continue, connect, carry on doing something

နေ

ne — To live, stay, reside; sun; progressive marker

ထို့

hto — That, therefore; demonstrative or connective particle

သူ

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

အလျင်

a-lyin — Before, previously, earlier in time

လျင်

lyin — Quick, fast, soon; conditional particle

ရည်ရွယ်

yay-ywè — To intend, aim at, have a purpose

ချက်

chet — Immediately; a point, moment, or cooking stroke

ရှိ

shi — To have, exist, be present somewhere

ထ

hta — To rise, stand up, get up from rest

မသိ

ma-thi — To not know, be unaware of something

မသာ

ma-tha — Uneasy, unwell, uncomfortable, not feeling good

သူ့

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

အတွက်

a-twet — For, for the sake of, because of

ဖွင့်

hpwin — To open, turn on, launch something

ထား

hta — To place, put, keep; resultative verb complement

မိ

mi — To catch, succeed unintentionally; mother

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; that which, who

မှ

hma — From, since, only then; ablative particle

ဆင့်

sin — Through, via; to relay, pass along information

မုဒ်

mout — Mood, spirit, feeling; borrowed term for mood

ဆောင်

saung — To carry, bring, possess, conduct something

ထောင့်

htaung — Corner, angle of a room or object

တက်

tet — To go up, rise, climb, attend; ascend

လာ

la — To come; directional verb indicating toward speaker

ကာ

ka — While, as, after; gerundive or delimiting particle

မီးဖို

mi-hpo — Stove, hearth, cooking fire in kitchen

ချောင်

chaung — A creek or narrow waterway; to sneak, peep

မီး

mi — Fire, flame, light, electricity

ထမင်း

hta-min — Cooked rice; the staple food of Myanmar

နံ့

nan — Smell, scent, odor of something

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with; conjunctive particle

ပေါ်

po — On top of, above, upon a surface

နွေး

nwe — Warm, cozy; gently heated temperature

စုံ

soun — Complete, full set, matching pair, even number

ရာ

ya — Hundred; general classifier or nominalizing suffix

၏

e — Possessive or genitive particle; literary 'of'

အနံ့

a-nan — Smell, fragrance, aroma of something

မ

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

မွေး

mwe — To be born; to raise or breed animals

ဖွား

hpwa — To be born; birth, especially of royalty

မီ

mi — To reach in time, be in time for something

တည်း

tì — Only, alone; restrictive or lodging particle

တိုင်

tine — Until, up to; pole, post; to complain

ငယ်

ngè — Young, small, little in age or size

ရွယ်

ywè — Age, stage of life; to aim at something

မိန်း

min — Female, woman; to become silent or quiet

လေး

le — Four; small, dear, little; emphatic particle

ဘဝ

ba-wà — Life, existence, state of being

ဤ

i — This; literary demonstrative pronoun for near reference

အိမ်

ain — House, home, dwelling place

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, reach, get to a place

ကြမ်း

kyam — Floor; rough, coarse, harsh in texture

ပြား

pya — Flat; flat thin object; classifier for flat items

ပြတင်း

pya-tin — Window of a house or building

ပေါက်

pout — To emerge, sprout, appear; a hole or opening

နေ့

ne — Day, daytime; a specific day

မွန်း

mun — Noon, midday; to be stuffy or stifling

တည့်

tì — Directly opposite, exactly facing, precisely aligned

ချိန်

chain — Time, moment; to aim, calibrate, or adjust

အလင်း

a-lin — Light, brightness, illumination

ရောင်

yaung — Color, hue; light ray, glow

ထူး

htu — Special, unique, extraordinary, different from others

ခြား

cha — Different, separate, distinct from something else

အရည်

a-yay — Liquid, fluid; quality or standard of something

အသွေး

a-thwe — Blood; color tone; temperament or character

လေ့လာ

le-la — To study, learn, investigate, or explore

သိ

thi — To know, be aware of, understand something

သည့်

thì — Relative clause marker; the one that does

မတိုင်

ma-tine — Before reaching, prior to arriving somewhere

လျှောက်

hlout — To walk, stroll; to apply formally for something

လုံး

loun — Whole, entire, round object; classifier for round things

ကူး

ku — To cross over; to transfer or copy something

စက်

set — Machine, engine, device; to begin a cycle

ပျံ့

pyan — To spread, diffuse, waft as scent or sound

နှံ့

hnan — Thoroughly, pervasively, all over a place

ဝ

wà — Full, round, fat; the letter W in Burmese

တည်

tì — To be established, stable, founded, located

ငြိမ်

nyim — Calm, quiet, still, peaceful, motionless

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning 'in a manner of'

နေရာ

ne-ya — Place, location, spot, position

ချ

cha — To put down, lower, place downward

ထိုင်

htine — To sit, be seated, remain in place

တို့

to — Plural marker; we, they, us; emphasis particle

ဦး

u — Head; Mr.; classifier for people; first

ဖက်

hpet — Side, direction; to hold, embrace, wrap around

ထုပ်

htout — Package, bundle, parcel wrapped for carrying

ထိန်း

htain — To control, maintain, guard, or look after

သိမ်း

thain — To keep, store, put away, confiscate

အပြင်

a-pyin — Outside, exterior; in addition to something else

ကြီး

ji — Big, large, great, senior, important

နည်း

ni — Method, way; few, little in amount

ဆည်း

si — To accumulate, gather toward evening; dusk

ဆာ

sa — To be hungry, to crave food

ကျ

kya — To fall, drop, descend; to suit or fit

ဆင်း

sin — To descend, go down, get off something

၌

hnait — At, in; literary locative particle

ရပ်

yat — To stop, halt, stand still; neighborhood

စောင့်

saung — To wait, guard, watch over, monitor

ဆိုင်း

sine — To delay, postpone; a musical band or ensemble

အဖျော့

a-hpyo — Something soft, light, or diluted in strength

ဆိုး

so — Bad, evil, wicked; to dye cloth

အစိမ်း

a-sin — Raw, unripe, green; something uncooked or unprocessed

ဆေး

se — Medicine, drug; to wash, paint, or dye

သုတ်

thout — To wipe, smear, apply a substance onto

ကန့်

kan — To object, oppose, block, or protest something

လန့်

lan — To be startled, frightened suddenly by something

သော့

thaw — Key used to lock or unlock something

ဆွဲ

hswe — To pull, drag, draw toward oneself

အဆင်

a-hsin — Condition, state, readiness; level of convenience

သင့်

thín — Should, ought to; appropriate, suitable, reasonable

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be, become, happen, occur, exist

ဘက်

bet — Side, direction, toward a particular direction

လမ်း

lan — Road, path, way, street, route

ကြောင်း

kyaung — Reason, cause; that (complementizer for reporting)

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; to order; locative particle

တိတ်

teit — Silent, quiet, soundless, still

ဆိတ်

hseit — Goat; deserted, desolate, quiet place

သက်

thet — Life, age, lifespan; to press down, apply pressure