Little Women — Page 3

Vocabulary

ထိုအခါ

hto a-hka — At that time; then; at that moment

မိမိ၏

mi mi ɛ — One's own; belonging to oneself

ကြမ်းတမ်းသော

kyan-dan dho — Rough; harsh; brutal in manner or behavior

လက်များကို

lɛʔ mya gó — Hands (object marker); referring to one's hands

ကြည့်ကာ

kji gá — While looking; gazing and then doing something

မည်သူမဆို

mji thu ma hsó — Whoever; anyone at all without exception

ကြားနိုင်လောက်အောင်

kja naing lauʔ aung — Loudly enough to be heard by others

နှမြောသံ

hna mjó than — Sound of sobbing; a pitiful lamenting voice

ချောင်းဟန့်လိုက်သည်။

chaung han laiʔ dhi — Cleared one's throat deliberately as a signal

သင်တို့ထဲမှ

thin dó htɛ hmá — From among you; out of your group

မည်သူမျှ

mji thu myá — No one; not a single person among all

ကျွန်မကဲ့သို့

cə̀ná gɛ̀ dhó — Like me; in the same way as I

ဆင်းရဲခံရသည်ဟု

sin jɛ hkan ya dhi hú — Has suffered poverty or hardship, it is said

ကျွန်မ

cə̀ná — I; me (polite feminine first-person pronoun)

မယုံကြည်ဘူး

ma youn kji bú — Don't believe; have no faith or trust

ဟု

hú — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'that'

ငိုကြွေးလျက်

ngó kwé lyɛʔ — While crying; weeping and lamenting continuously

ပြောသည်၊

pyó dhi — Said; spoke; uttered words to someone

အဘယ်ကြောင့်ဆိုသော်

a bɛ̀ kyaung hsó dho — Because; the reason being; for the reason that

သင်တို့က

thin dó gá — You all (subject marker); referring to a group

သင်ခန်းစာ

thin gan za — Lesson; a unit of learning or instruction

မသိလျှင်

ma thì ljin — If one does not know; in case of ignorance

နှောင့်ယှက်တတ်သော၊

hnaung shɛʔ taʔ dho — Prone to disturbing or annoying others habitually

သင်တို့၏

thin dó ɛ — Your (plural possessive); belonging to you all

ဝတ်စုံများကို

waʔ soun mya gó — Outfits; sets of clothing (object marker)

ရယ်မောတတ်သော၊

yɛ mó taʔ dho — Prone to laughing; one who laughs easily

အဖေ

a phɛ — Father; dad (common informal term for father)

ချမ်းသာမည်

chan tha mji — Will be prosperous; will be wealthy or comfortable

မဟုတ်လျှင်

ma houʔ ljin — If not; in the event that it is not so

အဖေ့ကို

a phɛ̀ gó — Father (object marker); referring to one's father

တံဆိပ်ကပ်တတ်သော၊

tan hseiʔ kaʔ taʔ dho — Prone to labeling or stamping others with names

နှာခေါင်း

hna gaung — Nose; the facial organ used for smelling

မချောမွေ့လျှင်

ma chó mwɛ ljin — If not smooth or perfect; if imperfect in appearance

အပေါ်မှ

a paw hmá — From above; based on; regarding; about something

ထောက်ရှုတ်တတ်သော

htauʔ shauʔ taʔ dho — Prone to criticizing or finding fault with others

မရိုမသေသော

ma yó ma thɛ dho — Disrespectful; showing no reverence or courtesy

မိန်းကလေးများနှင့်

mein ga lɛ mya hnin — With girls; together with female children or young women

အတူ

a tù — Together; alongside; in company with others

ကျောင်းသွားရမည်

kyaung thwá ya mji — Must go to school; obliged to attend school

မဟုတ်သောကြောင့်ဖြစ်သည်။

ma houʔ dho kyaung phyiʔ thi — Because it is not so; the reason is it is not

မင်း

min — You; informal second-person pronoun among peers

ဆိုလိုတာ

hsó ló da — What one means; the intended meaning of speech

ဆိုရင်

hsó jin — If; if one says; conditional conjunction in speech

ဒါကို

da gó — This (object marker); referring to this thing

ပြောသင့်တယ်၊

pyó thin dɛ — Should say; it is proper to say something

ဖေဖေကို

phɛ phɛ gó — Father (object marker); daddy as object of action

တပ်သလိုမျိုး

taʔ tha ló myó — As if attaching or affixing something onto someone

ပြောနေမနေနဲ့

pyó nɛ ma nɛ nɛ — Don't keep saying; stop talking about this matter

ရယ်မောလျက်

yɛ mó lyɛʔ — While laughing; laughing as an accompanying action

အကြံပေးသည်။

a kjan pɛ dhi — Gave advice; offered a suggestion or recommendation

သိတယ်၊

thì dɛ — Knows; is aware of something; understands the fact

ပြောင်လှောင်နေစရာ

pyaung hlaung nɛ za ya — Something to mock or tease; cause for ridicule

မလိုဘူး။

ma ló bú — Don't need; it is not necessary or required

ကောင်းသောစကားလုံးများ

kaung dho za ga loun mya — Good words; fine vocabulary or positive language

သုံးဆွဲကာ

thoun zwɛ̀ gá — Drawing upon; making use of; employing something

သင်၏

thin ɛ — Your (singular possessive); belonging to you alone

စကားလုံးဗဟုသုတကို

za ga loun ba hú thu tù gó — Vocabulary knowledge (object marker); word knowledge

မြှင့်တင်ခြင်းသည်

hmyin tin jín dhi — The act of improving or elevating; enhancement

သင့်လျော်သည်

thin lyó dhi — Is appropriate; is suitable or fitting for purpose

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာနှင့်

goun thiʔ kha hnin — With dignity; with honor and moral integrity

ပြန်လည်ပြောကြားသည်။

pyan lè pyó kya dhi — Responded; replied by speaking back to someone

ကလေးများ၊

ga lɛ mya — Children; young ones (plural noun in address)

တစ်ယောက်နှင့်

tiʔ yauʔ hnin — With one another; one person with another person

တစ်ယောက်

tiʔ yauʔ — One person; each other; a single individual

ကြွက်တောက်မနေကြနဲ့။

kyweʔ tauʔ ma nɛ kya nɛ — Don't squabble or bicker with each other

ငါတို့

nga dó — We; us (informal first-person plural pronoun)

ငယ်ငယ်ကတုန်းက

ngɛ ngɛ ga toun gá — When we were young; back in our childhood days

ဖေဖေ

phɛ phɛ — Dad; daddy (affectionate term for one's father)

ဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့သော

hsoun shoun gɛ̀ dho — That was lost; which was once lost or forfeited

ငွေများ

ngwɛ mya — Money; funds; monetary amounts (plural form)

ငါတို့မှာ

nga dó hmá — We have; in our possession; with us (locative)

ရှိမယ်ဆိုရင်

shi mɛ hsó jin — If there were; supposing we had something available

ဘယ်လောက်

bɛ lauʔ — How much; how many; to what extent or degree

ကောင်းမလဲ

kaung ma lɛ — How good would it be; wouldn't that be great

ဟင်းဟင်း

hin hin — Exclamation expressing amusement or light laughter

ပူပန်မှုများ

pù pan hmú mya — Worries; anxieties; feelings of concern or stress

မရှိလျှင်

ma shi ljin — If there are none; if lacking; in the absence of

ပျော်ရွှင်ပြီး

pyó shwin pyi — Being happy and then; joyful and consequently

ကောင်းမွန်မည်လဲ

kaung mun mji lɛ — Wouldn't it be wonderful; how much better it would be

ပိုကောင်းသောကာလများကို

pó kaung dho ka la mya gó — Better times (object marker); past happier periods

မှတ်မိနိုင်သေးသော

hmaʔ mi naing dhɛ dho — Who can still remember; able to recall still

ပြောသည်။

pyó dhi — Said; spoke; stated (sentence-final past tense)

မကြာသေးမီက

ma kya dhɛ mi gá — Recently; not long ago; a short time before now

မင်းက

min gá — You (subject marker); informal you as subject

မိသားစု၏

mi tha zu ɛ — Family's; belonging to a family or household group

ကလေးများထက်

ga lɛ mya htɛʔ — Than the children; more than kids (comparative particle)

ငါတို့ပိုပြီး

nga dó pó pyi — We more; we are more so than others comparatively

ပျော်ရွှင်သည်ဟု

pyó shwin dhi hú — Are happy, it is said; reportedly joyful and content

ထင်သည်ဟု

htin dhi hú — Thinks that; believes that (quoted thought marker)

ပြောခဲ့တယ်၊

pyó gɛ̀ dɛ — Said (past tense); mentioned earlier in conversation

သူတို့သည်

thù dó dhi — They (subject); those people as the topic

ငွေကြေးရှိနေသော်လည်း

ngwɛ kjɛ shi nɛ dho lɛ — Even though they have money; despite having wealth

အမြဲ

a mjɛ — Always; constantly; at all times without exception

ရန်ဖြစ်ပြီး

yan phyiʔ pyi — Having quarreled; fighting and then; after arguing

စိတ်ပူနေတတ်သောကြောင့်ဖြစ်သည်။

seiʔ pù nɛ taʔ dho kyaung phyiʔ thi — Because they tend to worry constantly; hence anxious

ဟုတ်တယ်

houʔ tɛ — Yes; that's right; affirming agreement with statement

ဒါ

da — This; that; demonstrative pronoun for nearby thing

ပြောခဲ့တယ်။

pyó gɛ̀ dɛ — Said it; stated that (past tense sentence-final)

ကျွန်မလည်း

cə̀ná lɛ — I also; me too (feminine first person with 'also')

ဒီလိုပဲ

di ló bɛ — Just like this; exactly the same way; likewise

ထင်တယ်။

htin dɛ — Think so; believe that; hold that opinion

ဘာဖြစ်လို့လဲဆိုတော့

ba phyiʔ ló lɛ hsó dó — Because; well the reason is; so as to explain why

အလုပ်လုပ်ရသော်လည်း

a louʔ louʔ ya dho lɛ — Even though we must work; despite having to labor

ငါတို့ကိုယ်ကိုယ်တိုင်ကို

nga dó kò kò tain gó — Ourselves; our very own selves (emphatic reflexive)

ပျော်ပျော်ရွှင်ရွှင်

pyó pyó shwin shwin — Happily; joyfully; in a cheerful and merry manner

ပြုလုပ်ကာ

pyú louʔ gá — Having done; making (something happen) and then

တော်တော်ပျော်ရွှင်သောအဖွဲ့

tó tó pyó shwin dho a phwɛ̀ — A quite happy group; a fairly cheerful bunch together

ဖြစ်ကြတယ်။

phyiʔ kya dɛ — Are (plural); they are; we collectively are something

ဒီလို

di ló — Like this; in this way; such as this manner

စကားပြောမေ့တွေ

za ga pyó mɛ̀ dwɛ — Conversational phrases; everyday speech expressions used

သုံးတတ်ပါတယ်

thoun taʔ pa dɛ — Can use; is able to use regularly or habitually

နှိပ်ကွပ်သောအကြည့်ဖြင့်

hniʔ kwuʔ dho a kji̤ phyin — With a commanding or domineering gaze; stern look

ကြမ်းပေါ်တွင်

kyan paw twin — On the floor; upon the rough ground or surface

ဆန့်တန်းလျောင်းနေသော

hsɛ̀ tan lyaung nɛ dho — Lying stretched out; reclining at full length horizontally

ရှည်မြောင်းသောကိုယ်ထည်ကို

shɛ myaung dho kò htɛ gó — The tall slender figure (object marker); a long body