Little Women — Page 2

Vocabulary

ဘာမှ

ba hma — Nothing, not anything at all

မမျှော်လင့်ဖို့

ma myaw lin hpo — Not to expect or anticipate something

သဘောတူ

tha baw tu — To agree, to be in accordance with

ပါတယ်

pa deh — Polite sentence-final particle indicating inclusion or presence

ဒါပေမဲ့

da pay meh — But, however, nevertheless

ကိုယ့်

ko — One's own, reflexive possessive pronoun

အတွက်

a twet — For, for the sake of, on behalf of

ကို

ko — Object marker particle, also to or towards

ဝယ်ချင်

weh chin — To want to buy something

တယ်

deh — Sentence-final declarative particle

အဲဒါကို

eh da ko — That one, referring to a previously mentioned object

အရမ်း

a yan — Very, extremely, excessively

ကြာအောင်

kya oun — For a long time, until sufficient time has passed

လိုချင်

lo chin — To want, to desire something

နေတာပဲ

nay da beh — Has been doing, emphasizing ongoing state

လို့

lo — Quotation particle, saying that, because

စာအုပ်

sa owk — Book, a bound written publication

တွေကို

tweh ko — Plural marker plus object marker, those things

နှစ်သက်

hnit thet — To like, to be fond of something

သည့်

theh — Relative clause marker, which or that

က

ga — Subject marker particle, from, indicates agent

ပြော

pyaw — To say, to speak, to tell

ကျွန်မ

chama — I, me, first person pronoun used by females

ကတော့

ga daw — As for, topic marker with mild contrast

ငွေကို

ngwe ko — Money, referring to money as object

သီချင်း

thi chin — Song, a piece of music with lyrics

သစ်

thit — New, fresh, also can mean wood or tree

တွေ

tweh — Plural marker for nouns

ဝယ်ဖို့

weh hpo — In order to buy, for the purpose of buying

စီစဉ်

si zin — To plan, to arrange, to organize

ထားတယ်

hta deh — To have done and kept, resultative aspect marker

မီးဖို

mi bho — Fireplace, stove, hearth for cooking

ဘေးရှိ

beh shi — Located beside, next to, at the side of

တံမြက်စည်း

dan myat si — Broom, a tool used for sweeping floors

နဲ့

neh — With, and, together with

သံအိုး

than o — Iron pot, metal cooking pot

ကိုင်သူ

kain thu — Person who holds or carries something

တို့သာ

do tha — Only us, only them, emphasis on exclusivity

ကြား

kya — Between, among, in the middle of

အနည်းငယ်

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

နှင်းသံ

hnin than — Sound of snow, snowy sound or atmosphere

နှင့်

hnin — With, and, together with, more formal form

အတူ

a tu — Together, at the same time, alongside

တော့

daw — Then, now, particle indicating transition or contrast

ရဲ့

yeh — Possessive particle, of, belonging to

ပန်းချီတံ

pan chi dan — Paintbrush, a tool used for painting

ထည့်ထားတဲ့

hteh hta deh — Having been placed inside, stored within

လှပ

hla pa — Beautiful, pretty, attractive in appearance

တဲ့

deh — Relative clause particle, informal that or which

သေတ္တာ

thet ta — Box, chest, a container for storing items

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing, a single item or unit

ဝယ်မယ်

weh meh — Will buy, future intention to purchase

တကယ်

ta keh — Really, truly, genuinely

လိုအပ်

lo at — To need, to be necessary or required

နေတာ

nay da — Is doing, ongoing action or state marker

တည်တည်ကြည်ကြည်

teh teh kyi kyi — Calmly, composedly, with steady composure

မေမေ

me me — Mother, mom, informal term for mother

ကျွန်တော်တို့

chano do — We, us, first person plural used by males

ငွေ

ngwe — Money, silver, currency

အကြောင်း

a kyoun — About, concerning, reason, cause

မပြောဘူး

ma pyaw bu — Not saying, not talking about it

ပြီးတော့

pyi daw — And then, after that, furthermore

အရာ

a ya — Thing, matter, item, object

အားလုံး

a lone — All, everyone, everything, entirely

စွန့်လွှတ်

swun hlwut — To give up, to sacrifice, to relinquish

ဖို့

hpo — In order to, for the purpose of

လည်း

leh — Also, too, as well, even

ဆန္ဒ

san da — Desire, wish, aspiration, will

မရှိဘူး

ma shi bu — Does not exist, there is none

လိုချင်တာ

lo chin da — What one wants, desired thing or goal

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — One person, each person individually

စီ

si — Each, apiece, distributive particle

ဝယ်

weh — To buy, to purchase

ကြပြီး

kya pyi — Having done together, plural past action

နည်းနည်း

nyi nyi — A little, a bit, slightly

ပျော်

pyaw — Happy, joyful, having fun

ကြစို့

kya zo — Let us, let's do something together

ဒါ

da — This, that, this thing

လောက်

lout — About, approximately, enough, worthy of

ခံထိုက်

khan tike — To deserve, to be worthy of receiving

အောင်

oun — So that, in order to achieve, until

အလုပ်

a lowk — Work, job, task, employment

ကြိုးစား

kyo sa — To try hard, to make effort, to strive

ဆိုတာ

so da — The thing called, what is meant by

သေချာ

the cha — Sure, certain, definitely, carefully

မိမိ

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

ဖိနပ်

hpa nat — Shoes, footwear worn on the feet

ဖနောင့်

hpa naung — Heel, the back part of the foot

ယောက်ျားလေး

yout kya le — Boy, young man, male child

ဆန်ဆန်

san san — In a boyish manner, tomboy-like style

စစ်ဆေး

sit say — To inspect, to examine, to check

ရင်း

yin — While doing, by means of, intimate particle

အော်ဟစ်

aw hit — To shout, to yell, to call out loudly

အိမ်

ein — House, home, dwelling place

မှာ

hma — At, in, on, locative particle

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko tine — Oneself, personally, by oneself

နေချင်တာကို

nay chin da ko — The desire to stay or live somewhere

ရှိနေ

shi nay — To be present, to exist continuously

ချိန်

chein — Time, moment, period, to weigh

ငြီးငွေ့

nyee ngweh — To be bored, to be weary of something

ဖွယ်ကောင်း

phweh kaung — Worth doing, deserving of, likely to cause

ကလေး

ga le — Child, young child, little one

တစ်နေ့တာ

tit nay da — All day long, throughout the entire day

နီးပါး

ni ba — Nearly, almost, approximately

သင်ကြား

thin kya — To teach, to instruct someone in something

နေရတာ

nay ya da — Having to stay, situation of being required to

တဖန်

ta hpan — Again, once more, on the other hand

တိုင်ညည်း

tine nyi — To complain, to grumble about something

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle, formal which or that

အသံ

a than — Sound, voice, noise

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With, by means of, using, formal instrumental

စ

sa — To start, to begin, starting particle

သင်

thin — You, second person pronoun, formal

ကြုံ

khyon — To encounter, to experience, to come across

ကျွန်တော်

chano — I, me, first person pronoun used by males

နေရ

nay ya — Must stay, have to be in a situation

သလောက်

tha lout — As much as, to the extent of

တောင်

daung — Even, still, also used for mountain

မဆိုးဘူး

ma so bu — Not bad, it's okay, not too terrible

စိတ်တို

seit to — Short-tempered, easily irritated, impatient

တတ်ပြီး

tat pyi — Tending to, habitually, after becoming able

အမှုပျောက်

a hmu pyout — Carefree, not minding matters, irresponsible

မတည်ငြိမ်

ma teh nyeim — Unstable, restless, not calm or settled

အဖွားကြီး

a hpwa ji — Old grandmother, elderly woman, old lady

နာရီ

na yi — Hour, clock, watch, timepiece

ပေါင်းများစွာ

paung mya zwa — Many combined, numerous, a great many

ပိတ်မိ

peit mi — To be trapped, to be shut inside, confined

နေပြီး

nay pyi — Being in a state and then, continuing on

မနားမနေ

ma na ma nay — Without rest, non-stop, continuously

တာဝန်

ta wan — Duty, responsibility, obligation

ပေးနေ

pay nay — Continuously giving, currently giving to someone

ဘယ်တော့

beh daw — When, at what time, used in questions

မှ

hma — From, only, emphasis particle, at

မကျေနပ်

ma kye nat — Dissatisfied, not content, unhappy with

ဘဲ

beh — Without doing, not doing, particle of negation

ပြတင်းပေါက်

pya tin pauk — Window, an opening in a wall for light

ကနေ

ga nay — From, starting from, out of

ထွက်ပြေး

thoet pye — To run away, to flee, to escape

ချင်တဲ့

chin deh — Wanting to, desiring to do something

သို့မဟုတ်

tho ma hout — Or, otherwise, alternatively

ငို

ngo — To cry, to weep, to sob

အထိ

a hti — Until, up to, to the extent of

စိတ်ပူပန်

seit pu pan — To worry, to be anxious, concerned about

လုပ်

lowk — To do, to make, to perform an action

နေတာကို

nay da ko — The ongoing situation, what has been happening

ဘယ်လို

beh lo — How, in what way, what kind of

ခံစား

khan sa — To feel, to experience, to endure

မလဲ

ma leh — Isn't it, aren't you, question particle

ညည်းညူ

nyi nyu — To moan, to groan, to whine repeatedly

မကောင်းဘူး

ma kaung bu — Not good, bad, not well

ပန်းကန်

pan gan — Plate, dish used for serving food

ဆေးတာ

say da — Washing, cleaning dishes or objects

သပ်ရပ်

thet yat — Neat, tidy, clean and orderly

ထိန်းသိမ်း

htein thein — To maintain, to preserve, to take care of

တာ

da — Nominalizer, the fact that, thing done

ဟာ

ha — Thing, that one, exclamatory or topical particle

လောက

law ga — World, society, the earthly realm

အဆိုးဆုံး

a so zone — The worst, most terrible, superlative of bad

ပဲ

beh — Only, just, emphasis particle

ထင်

htin — To think, to believe, to suppose

ဒါကြောင့်

da kyaung — Therefore, because of that, for that reason

လာပြီး

la pyi — Having come and then, coming and doing

လက်

let — Hand, arm, also used as a classifier

တောင့်တည်း

daung ti — Hardship, difficulty, suffering, scarcity

လာတဲ့

la deh — That came, which came, relative past tense

ကောင်းကောင်း

kaung kaung — Well, properly, thoroughly, nicely

လေ့ကျင့်

leh chin — To practice, to train, to exercise repeatedly

လုံးဝ

lone wa — Completely, absolutely, totally, at all

မရတော့ဘူး

ma ya daw bu — Can no longer get, unable to obtain anymore