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Vocabulary

ကျွန်မ

kyun ma — I, me (humble first-person pronoun for females)

ဘူတာရုံ

bu ta youn — Train station or bus terminal

မှာ

hma — At, in; also used to place orders

စားခဲ့တယ်

sa kheh te — Ate; past tense of to eat

အဲဒါ

eh da — That thing; that one (colloquial demonstrative)

မတူဘူး

ma tu bu — Not the same; different; does not match

သူတို့

thu do — They, them (third-person plural pronoun)

အထဲကို

a theh go — Into the inside of something

ဝင်သွားကြတယ်

win thwa kya de — They entered; went inside (plural past)

အိမ်

ein — House, home, dwelling place

ထဲမှာ

theh hma — Inside, within a place or container

ထမင်းနံ့

hta min nan — Smell of cooked rice or food

နဲ့

neh — And, with; connects nouns informally

သစ်သားနံ့

thit tha nan — Smell of wood; woody fragrance

နှင့်

hnin — And, with; formal conjunction connecting nouns

နီပါ

ni pa — Near, close to (informal proximity marker)

မှတ်မိ

hmat mi — To remember, recall, recognize something

သည့်

thih — Relative clause marker; that, which (formal)

ကာလ

ka la — Period of time, era, duration

တစ်လျှောက်

ta hlyauk — Throughout, all along a time or place

သူ့

thu — His, her; third-person possessive pronoun

အမေ

a meh — Mother, mom (common informal term)

သုံးခဲ့သော

thoun kheh thaw — That was used; past relative clause for use

ဆပ်ပြာ

hsap pya — Soap used for washing or cleaning

နံ့သာဆေး

nan tha zeh — Perfume, fragrant medicine or scented product

တို့

do — Plural marker for pronouns and nouns

ရဲ့

yeh — Possessive particle; informal 's or of

သီးသန့်

thi than — Unique, separate, exclusive, distinct

ပေါင်းစပ်မှု

paung zap hmu — Combination, blend, mixture of elements

တစ်ခု

ta khu — One thing; a single item or unit

နံ့သင်း

nan thin — Fragrance, pleasant scent or aroma

နေတယ်

ne de — Is doing; lives; ongoing present action

မီးဖိုချောင်

mi pho chaung — Kitchen, cooking area of a house

သည်

thì — Formal subject marker or present tense particle

ထို

hto — That (formal demonstrative adjective)

ပင်

pin — Indeed, even, also (emphatic particle)

ဖြစ်သည်

pyit thì — Is, am, are; to be (formal copula)

ဖခင်

hpa khín — Father (formal or literary term)

ကွယ်လွန်

kweh lun — To pass away, die (respectful euphemism)

နှစ်

hnit — Year; also the number two

မတိုင်မီ

ma tine mi — Before a certain time or event

က

ka — Subject marker particle in Burmese sentences

ပရိဘောဂ

pa yi baw ga — Furniture, household furnishings

ရွှေ့

shweh — To move, shift, relocate something

ရာ

ya — Place; also hundred; relativizing particle

တွင်

twìn — In, at, within (formal locative particle)

ချိုင့်

chaing — Depression, hollow, dip in a surface

ဝင်သွားသော

win thwa thaw — That entered; went inside (relative clause)

ကြိုင်ကြောင်း

kyine kyaung — Fragrance, scent, pleasant smell (literary)

နံရံ

nan yan — Wall of a room or building

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, above, upon a surface

ကပ်ထားသော

kap htah thaw — That is attached, stuck, or posted on

နှစ်လ

hnit la — Two months duration of time

နောက်ကျ

nauk kya — Late, delayed, behind schedule

နေသော

ne thaw — That is living or staying (relative clause)

ပြက္ခဒိန်

pyet kha dein — Calendar showing dates and months

မည်သူမှ

ma thu hma — Nobody, no one at all

ဘယ်တော့မှ

be daw hma — Never, not ever at any time

မပစ်ဖူးသော

ma pyit phu thaw — That has never been discarded or thrown away

ခြေဖျားနား

cheh pyah nah — Near the foot end; foot area

သေးငယ်သော

theh ngeh thaw — That is tiny, small, little in size

အက်ကွဲမှု

ak kweh hmu — A crack, fracture, or splitting in something

ရှိသည့်

shi thih — That exists, that has (relative clause)

ကြွေ

kyweh — Ceramic, glazed pottery or tile material

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With, by means of (instrumental particle)

ပြုလုပ်သော

pyu loat thaw — That is made or manufactured from something

ဇလုံ

za lone — Bowl, basin used for eating or washing

သို့သော်

thoh thaw — However, but, nevertheless (formal conjunction)

အခြားသော

a khah thaw — Other, another, different (formal adjective)

အရာ

a ya — Thing, object, matter, item

များ

myah — Plural marker; many, much, a lot

ရှိ

shi — To exist, to have, to be present

သေးသည်

theh thì — Still, yet (ongoing action marker formal)

နောက်

nauk — After, next, behind (time or position)

တံခါး

tan kha — Door, gate of a room or building

နားရှိ

nah shi — Near, beside, next to a place

ထောင့်

htaung — Corner, angle of a room or object

ရေကန်ငယ်

yeh kan ngeh — Small pond or pool of water

ထားခဲ့သော

htah kheh thaw — That was left behind or placed there

နေရာ

ne ya — Place, location, spot, position

ယခု

ya khu — Now, at this time, currently (formal)

သန့်ရှင်း

than shin — Clean, tidy, pure, uncontaminated

ပြီး

pyi — After, finished, done; completion marker

ကြွေပြား

kyweh pyah — Ceramic tile used on floors or walls

ချည်းသာ

chyeh tha — Only, merely, just (emphatic exclusive particle)

ကျန်တယ်

kyan de — Remains, is left over, still there

လှေကား

hleh kah — Staircase, stairs, ladder in a building

အောက်ချိုး

auk cho — Basement, lower floor, area beneath

အိပ်ရာ

ait ya — Bed, sleeping area, place to sleep

ဝင်

win — To enter, go inside a place

လမ်း

lan — Road, path, way, street

မှောင်

hmaung — Dark, dim, lacking light

ထဲ

theh — Inside, within, into (locative particle)

အဖြူရောင်

a phyu yaung — White color or white-colored appearance

ပုံသဏ္ဌာန်

pone than dan — Shape, form, appearance of something

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to, toward

ကျော်

kyaw — Past, over, beyond; famous (different tones)

တတ်ခဲ့သော

tat kheh thaw — That used to be able to do

လွတ်

lwut — Free, vacant, empty, unoccupied

နေသည်

ne thì — Is living, staying, or doing (formal)

ဆောင်ပတ်

hsaung pat — To carry around; surrounding or encircling

ဝါးခင်း

wah khin — Bamboo flooring or bamboo platform

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twìn — On, upon the surface of something (formal)

ညနေ

nya ne — Evening, late afternoon time of day

ဥယျာဉ်

u yin — Garden, park, or yard area

ဆီ

hsi — Toward, in the direction of something

မျက်နှာ

myat hna — Face; also direction or front side

မူထားသော

mu htah thaw — That is positioned or oriented in a direction

ကုလားထိုင်

ka lah htine — Chair, seat for sitting on

နှစ်လုံး

hnit lone — Two pieces, both of them

မြေပြင်

myeh pyin — Ground level, floor, earth surface

ကြား

kyah — Between, among, in the middle of

သူ

thu — He, she, him, her (third person)

အမြဲ

a myeh — Always, constantly, all the time

ချိနင်း

chei nin — To dangle, hang limply, droop down

လက်ဝါး

let wah — Palm of the hand

တင်ကာ

tin ka — Placing on top; balancing upon something

အဝေး

a weh — Far away, a distant place

မှ

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

ငေးကြည့်

ngeh kyi — To stare, gaze at something intently

လျက်

lyet — While doing; present participle connector

ငြိမ်ခနဲ

nyein kha neh — Suddenly still, suddenly quiet and motionless

နေတတ်

ne tat — Tends to stay or be; habitual action

ခဲ့သည်

kheh thì — Did, was; past tense formal marker

ဖြစ်သွား

pyit thwah — Became, turned into, happened suddenly

ပြီ

pyi — Already, done, completion final particle

စားပွဲဝိုင်း

sa bweh wine — Dining table, round table for meals

ထိုင်ချ

htine cha — To sit down suddenly or abruptly

သည်နှင့်

thì hnin — As soon as, upon doing something

မေးမြန်းမှု

meh myan hmu — Question, inquiry, act of asking

မရှိဘဲ

ma shi beh — Without, lacking, in absence of something

ရှေ့

sheh — Front, ahead, in front of

လက်ဖက်ရည်

la phet yeh — Tea, the drink made from tea leaves

တင်ပေး

tin peh — To serve, offer, present something to someone

ပြောစရာ

pyaw za ya — Something to say; worth talking about

တစ်ခုခု

ta khu khu — Something, anything, some unspecified thing

သော်လည်း

thaw leh — Although, even though, nevertheless (formal)

ပြောရန်

pyaw yan — In order to say or speak something

အချိန်မှန်

a chein hmyan — On time, punctual, correct time

စောင့်

saung — To wait for, to guard or keep watch

နေသည့်

ne thih — That is staying or living (relative clause)

အခါ

a kha — Time, occasion, when something happens

ထိုင်

htine — To sit, to be seated somewhere

တတ်သည့်

tat thih — That is able to; tends to do

ပုံစံ

pone zan — Style, pattern, form, manner of something

မျက်နှာချင်းဆိုင်

myat hna chin hsine — Face to face, directly opposite each other

လိုက်သည်

lite thì — Followed, went along with; to follow

ငယ်ငယ်

ngeh ngeh — Young age, childhood, when young

ကတည်းက

ga deh ga — Since, ever since a time in past

ဤသို့

i thoh — Like this, in this way (formal)

ပြုလုပ်

pyu loat — To do, make, perform, carry out

ခဲ့ကြသည်

kheh kya thì — They did; past plural formal action

သည်းခံမှု

thin khan hmu — Patience, tolerance, endurance of difficulty

ဆိုင်ရာ

hsine ya — Related to, concerning, regarding a topic

စီစဉ်မှု

si zin hmu — Arrangement, planning, organization of something

အင်္ဂါနေ့

in ga neh — Tuesday, the third day of the week

သွားခဲ့တယ်

thwah kheh de — Went, has gone (past tense colloquial)

ဟု

hu — Quotation marker; said, as in, that (formal)

ပြောသည်

pyaw thì — Says, said, speaks (formal verb)

ညနေပိုင်း

nya ne pine — Evening time period, late afternoon

အဆင်

a hsin — Convenience, smoothness, ease of doing

မပြေတာ

ma pyeh ta — Not smooth, not convenient, problematic

မဟုတ်ဘူး

ma hout bu — Is not, am not, are not (negation)

ပြောဖူးတယ်

pyaw phu de — Has said before, have mentioned previously

သိတယ်

thi de — Knows, understands, is aware of

ဒါပေမဲ့

da peh meh — But, however, even so (colloquial)

ဒီမှာ

di hma — Here, at this place (colloquial)

ပြောတာ

pyaw ta — Saying, talking, speaking (colloquial nominalizer)

လက်

let — Hand, arm (body part)

နှစ်ဖက်

hnit phet — Both sides, two sides or directions

ခွက်

khwet — Cup, mug, small bowl for drinking

ဝန်းရံ

wun yan — Surrounding, encircling, going around something

ကိုင်

kine — To hold, grasp, carry in hand

မာလာဆာပင်ပန်း

ma la sa pin pan — Bougainvillea flower, a colorful climbing plant

အတွက်

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

နူးညံ့

nu nyan — Gentle, soft, tender in manner or touch

လိုသော

lo thaw — That is needed or wanted; required

ဖျော်

hpyaw — To mix a drink; to dissolve in liquid

တတ်သော

tat thaw — That is able to; that tends to do

မင်း

min — You (informal, can be impolite); ruler

ရှိနေတယ်

shi ne de — Is present, exists, is there right now

ဆိုတာ

hso ta — The thing called; what is meant by

သိ

thi — To know, understand, be aware of

သလား

tha lah — Question particle; do you? is it? (informal)