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Vocabulary

တံခါး

tan kha: — Door or gate of a building

သည်

thi. — Topic marker particle; also 'this'

အရင်

a.yin — Before; first; previously

နှင့်

hnin. — And; with; together with

အတူတူ

a.tu.tu. — Together; at the same time; alike

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphatic particle

ဖြစ်

hpyit — To be; to happen; to occur

နီပါ

ni pa — Is near; close by (colloquial copula)

ဆောင်သဲ့

hsaung thè. — To carry; to bring along somewhat

၏

i. — Possessive or genitive particle

ပြတင်းပေါက်

pya.tin: pauk — Window opening in a wall

မှ

hma. — From; since; ablative case marker

တစ်ဆင့်

tit hsin. — Through; via; step by step

အခြား

a.hkya: — Other; another; different

ဘာမှ

ba hma. — Nothing; anything (in negative context)

မမြင်

ma.myin — Cannot see; does not see

မီ

mi — Before; in time; to reach

ထို

hto. — That; those; demonstrative pronoun

ကို

ko. — Object marker; accusative particle

မြင်

myin — To see; to perceive visually

လိုက်

lait — To follow; directional verb particle

အဟောင်း

a.haung: — Old; worn out; used previously

စက္ကူ

sit ku — Paper; sheet of paper

ရောင်

yaung — Color; hue; shade

သို့

hto. — To; toward; directional particle

ဖျော့

hpyo. — Faded; pale; soft in color

သွား

thwa: — To go; to leave; directional particle

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; which; that

အဖြူ

a.hpyu — White color; whiteness

သုတ်

thout — To coat; to smear; to apply

ဆေး

hsè: — Medicine; paint; dye

သုံး

thoun: — To use; three (number)

နှစ်

hnit — Year; two (number)

ကြာ

kya — Duration; to take time; long

မတိုင်

ma.tain — Before reaching; not yet arrived

မိခင်

mi.khin — Mother; female parent

က

ga. — Subject marker; agent particle

ကြိုး

kyo: — Rope; string; cord; wire

ဖြင့်

hpyin. — With; by means of; instrumental particle

ပြင်ဆင်

pyin hsin — To prepare; to repair; to arrange

ထား

hta: — To place; to keep; resultative particle

ပြီး

pyi: — After; already done; completion particle

မည်

myi. — Future tense marker; will; shall

သည့်

thi. — Relative clause particle (past/present)

အခါ

a.kha — Time; occasion; when; moment

မျှ

hmya. — Only; just; as much as

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung mun — Good; excellent; of high quality

စွာ

swa — Adverbial particle indicating manner

အစား

a.sa: — Instead of; replacement; food (context)

ထိုး

hto: — To stab; to inject; to pound

မလဲ

ma.lè — Not exchange; not replace; not change

သော့

thaw. — Key; lock mechanism

ဆွဲ

hswe: — To pull; to drag; to draw

သူ

thu — He; she; that person; pronoun

လာ

la — To come; directional verb particle

ကြောင်း

kyaung: — Reason; because; nominalizing particle

နံ့

nan. — Smell; scent; odor

ရှု

shu — To look; to breathe in; to smell

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of

နှာ

hna — Nose; nasal

ဖူး

hpu: — To have experienced; bud; flower bud

ဖိ

hpi. — To press; to push down; to suppress

ထည့်

hte. — To put in; to add; to insert

တတ်

tat — To be able; to know how; tends to

အောက်

out — Below; under; bottom

ဘက်

bet — Side; direction; toward

အပေါက်

a.pauk — Hole; opening; gap

တို့

to. — Plural particle; we; they

ဤ

i — This (formal/literary demonstrative pronoun)

တစ်ကြိမ်

tit kyim — Once; one time; one occasion

တွင်

twin — In; at; within; locative particle

သူမ

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

ကြိုတင်

kyo tin — In advance; beforehand; prior

ဖုန်း

hpon: — Telephone; phone; mobile phone

မခေါ်

ma.khaw — Did not call; not calling

ခဲ့

khè. — Past tense particle; went away

ပေ

pè — Indeed; emphatic sentence-final particle

အား

a: — Dative/object marker; strength; toward

အချိန်

a.chin — Time; period; moment

ပေး

pè: — To give; to provide; to allow

ခြင်း

chin: — Nominalization suffix; act of doing

သပ်ရပ်

thut yut — Neat; tidy; well-organized in appearance

ချောမွတ်

chaw mwut — Smooth; sleek; neat and polished

အောင်

aung — So as to; in order to succeed

စီစဉ်

si hsin — To arrange; to organize; to plan

ဧည့်သည်

è. thi. — Guest; visitor; company at home

ဝတ်ဆင်

wut hsin — To wear; to dress; to put on clothes

မျက်နှာ

myet hna — Face; appearance; countenance

တပ်ဆင်

tat hsin — To install; to fit; to attach

လို

lo. — To want; to need; like (comparison)

မရှိ

ma.shi. — There is not; does not exist

ယခု

ya.khu — Now; at present; currently

စေ

sè — To cause; to let; causative particle

အိမ်

ein — House; home; dwelling

ပုံမှန်

poun hman — Normal; regular; usual; standard

ဗားရှင်း

ba: shin: — Version; variant edition of something

ထဲ

htè: — Inside; within; interior

ရောက်ရှိ

yauk shi. — To arrive at; to reach a place

ဒရိုင်ဘာ

d'yaing ba — Driver; one who drives vehicles

ငွေ

ngwè — Money; silver; currency

ပေးချေ

pè: chè — To pay; to make a payment

လမ်း

lan: — Road; path; street; way

ပေါ်

pau — On; above; on top of

အိတ်

eit — Bag; purse; pocket; pouch

အတူ

a.tu — Together; along with; in company

ရပ်တန့်

yut tan. — To stop; to halt; to come to rest

ကာ

ka — While; continuative particle; to block

မိမိ

mi.mi. — Oneself; reflexive pronoun; self

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko. tain — Oneself; personally; by oneself

ကြည့်ရှု

kyi. shu — To observe; to watch; to view

ခွင့်

khwin. — Permission; right; opportunity; leave

ပြု

pyu — To do; to make; to perform

နား

na: — Ear; to rest; to pause

ပန်းပုံ

pan: poun — Floral pattern; flower design

ကြီးထွား

kyi: thwa: — To grow; to develop; to increase in size

ကာလ

ka la — Period; era; duration of time

ဆက်လက်

hset let — To continue; to proceed; to carry on

နေ

nè — To live; to stay; continuous aspect marker

လိမ့်

lein. — Will probably; future inferential particle

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; thus; saying that

မထင်

ma.htin — Did not think; do not expect

မိ

mi. — Accidentally did; to catch; resultative

သို့သော်

hto. thaw — However; but; nevertheless; yet

ဟုတ်ကဲ့

hout kè. — Yes; that is correct; acknowledgement

ကွန်ကရစ်

kun ka.yit — Concrete; cement construction material

လမ်းကြောင်း

lan: kyaung: — Route; path; course; direction

ကျွတ်ကျ

kyut kya — To fall off; to drop out; detach

ပန်း

pan: — Flower; blossom; floral design

များ

mya: — Plural marker; many; more; lots

ထွက်ခွာ

htwet khwa — To depart; to leave; to go away

အထိ

a.hti. — Until; up to; as far as

သတိ

tha.ti. — Attention; mindfulness; awareness; caution

မပြု

ma.pyu — Did not do; not performing an action

ဘဲ

bè: — Without doing; instead of; but rather

ကြီးပြင်း

kyi: pyin: — To grow up; upbringing; to be raised

ပြန်

pyan — To return; to go back; again

တိုင်း

tain: — Every; each; whenever; all of

ထပ်မံ

htat man — Again; once more; additionally; further

တွေ့ကြုံ

twè kyoun — To experience; to encounter; to meet

ရ

ya. — To get; to obtain; can; able to

ချိုမြိန်

cho myin — Sweet; pleasant; delightful taste or feeling

သင်္ချိုင်း

thin: chin: — Cemetery; graveyard; burial ground

အနည်းငယ်

a.nyi: ngè — A little; a small amount; slightly

ဆင်တူ

hsin tu — Similar; resembling; alike in appearance

နံ့သာ

nan. tha — Fragrance; pleasant scent; perfume

ဆက်

hset — To continue; to connect; to follow on

ဥယျာဉ်

u. yan — Garden; park; orchard

ထောင့်

htaung. — Corner; angle; nook

ရှိ

shi. — To exist; there is; to have

သရက်

tha.yet — Mango; mango tree

သစ်ပင်

thit pin — Tree; large woody plant

အိုမင်း

o. min: — Old; aged; elderly in appearance

ကဲ့သို့

kè. hto. — Like; as; similar to; such as

ပိုမို

po mo — More; even more; increasingly

လေးနက်

lè: net — Deep; profound; serious; weighty

တိတ်ဆိတ်

teit hset — Quiet; silent; still; peaceful

ညနေ

nya. nè — Afternoon; evening; dusk time

နေ့နွေး

nè. nwè: — Warm daytime; pleasant warm day

ဆုံး

hson: — To end; to finish; to die; final

အိပ်

eit — To sleep; to go to bed

မြေပြင်

myè pyin — Ground; ground surface; earth level

ကွက်

kwet — Plot; patch; section of land or space

ကျယ်ပြန့်

kyè pyan. — Wide; broad; spacious; expansive

ရိပ်

yeit — Shade; shadow cast by object

ဖြာကျ

hpya kya — To spread out; to radiate; fall spreading

ဖွင့်

hpwin. — To open; to unlock; to turn on

လှေကား

hlè ka: — Staircase; steps; ladder

ထစ်

htit — Step; notch; level; rung

မရောက်

ma.yauk — Did not arrive; has not reached

မြင်ကွင်း

myin kwin: — View; scene; visible panorama

ဆိုလိုသည်မှာ

hso lo thi. hma — What is meant is; meaning that

သော့ဆွဲ

thaw. hswe: — To lock; to bolt; to secure a lock

သံ

than — Sound; voice; iron; metal

ကြား

kya: — Between; among; to hear; to listen

နားထောင်

na: htaung — To listen; to pay attention to sound

သူတို့

thu to. — They; them; those people (plural)

မပြောဆို

ma.pyaw hso — Did not say; without speaking; unsaid

ဖက်

hpet — To embrace; side; direction; to hug

ကြ

kya — Plural verb particle; together; mutually

မှတ်မိ

hmat mi. — To remember; to recall; to recognize

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative marker

ပို

po — More; additional; extra amount

ငယ်

ngè — Young; small; junior; little

သို့မဟုတ်

hto. ma.hout — Or; otherwise; alternatively

ကြောင့်

kyaung. — Because of; due to; causal particle

ဉာဏ်ရည်

nyan yè — Intelligence; intellect; mental ability

ထည့်သိမ်း

hte. thein: — To store; to put away; to keep safely

ပုံရိပ်

poun yeit — Image; reflection; mental picture

အစစ်အမှန်

a.sit a.hman — Real; genuine; authentic; true thing

ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်

pug goun — Person; individual; personality

တိတ်တဆိတ်

teit ta.hset — Quietly; secretly; stealthily; in silence

ပြောင်းလဲ

pyaung: lè: — To change; to transform; to alter

ဆို

hso — To say; to sing; quotative verb

နိုင်

nain — To be able; can; to win; capable

ဘတ်စ်

bat si — Bus; public transit vehicle

ကား

ka: — Car; vehicle; automobile

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle; to order

မင်း

min: — You (informal); lord; king

မစား

ma.sa: — Not eating; does not eat

ဘူး

bu: — Negative experiential particle; never; not

ပြော

pyaw — To speak; to tell; to say