Little Women — Page 5

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Subject marker particle in formal Burmese sentences

အပြာရောင်

a-pya-yaung — The color blue

စစ်သား

sit-tha — A soldier or military serviceman

ခြေအိတ်

chay-ait — A sock worn on the foot

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; also a male title

အဆစ်ချိတ်

a-sit-chait — A joint or link connecting two parts

များ

mya — Plural marker; means 'many' or 'several'

ကဲ့သို့

kè-tho — Like, similar to, resembling something else

ဆူညံ

su-nyan — Noisy, loud, making a lot of sound

အထိ

a-hti — Until, up to, as far as a point

လှုပ်ခါ

hlote-kha — To shake or move back and forth

လိုက်

laik — To follow; directional verb complement meaning along

ပြီး

pyi — After completing; already done; and then

သူမ

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

၏

é — Formal possessive or subject marker particle

ဘောလုံး

baw-lon — A ball, especially a football or soccer ball

အခန်း

a-khan — A room inside a building

တစ်ဖက်

ta-phet — One side; the other side or direction

သို့

tho — To, toward; a directional marker particle

ဖျတ်ခနဲ

phyat-kha-nè — Suddenly, in a flash, abruptly happening

ပေါက်

pauk — To burst, pop, or emerge through something

သွား

thwa — To go; directional verb meaning away from

လေသည်။

lè-thì — Sentence-final particle indicating completed past action

ဆင်းရဲ

hsin-yè — Poor, impoverished, in difficult circumstances

စရာ

sa-ya — Reason or cause to do something; worthy of

ပဲ

pè — Emphatic particle meaning 'just' or 'only'

အရမ်း

a-yan — Extremely, very, excessively; intensifier adverb

ဆိုး

so — Bad, wicked, evil, or morally wrong

သား

tha — Son; also a softening sentence particle

ဒါပေမဲ့

da-pe-mè — However, but, nevertheless; contrasting conjunction

မတတ်နိုင်

ma-tat-naing — Unable to help it; can't be avoided

ဘူး

bu — Negative particle used in past or present tense

ဒါကြောင့်

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

သင့်

thìn — Your; also means appropriate or suitable

နာမည်

na-mè — Name of a person or thing

ယောက်ျားလေး

yout-kya-le — A young boy, a little male child

ပုံစံ

pone-san — Form, shape, style, manner of something

ထား

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

တာ

ta — Nominalizer particle; indicates ongoing action or fact

နဲ့

nè — With, and; a conjunction or instrumental particle

ငါတို့

nga-do — We, us; first-person plural pronoun informal

မိန်းကလေး

main-ka-le — A young girl, a female child

တွေ

twe — Plural marker for nouns in informal speech

ညီအကို

nyi-a-ko — Siblings; brothers, younger and older brothers

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As, in the capacity of; becoming something

ဆောင်ရွက်

hsaung-ywet — To carry out, perform, or undertake a task

နှစ်သက်

hnit-thet — To like, be pleased with, to enjoy

ဖို့

pho — For the purpose of; in order to do

ကြိုးစား

kyo-za — To try hard, make an effort, strive

ရ

ya — To get, obtain; can, able to do

မယ်

mè — Future tense particle indicating intention or prediction

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'called'

က

ka — Subject or agent marker particle in sentences

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, or talk about something

ကမ္ဘာ

kam-ba — The world, the earth, the globe

ပေါ်ရှိ

paw-shi — Located on top of or existing upon

ပန်းကန်

pan-gan — A plate or dish used for eating

ဆေးခြင်း

hsay-chin — The act of washing or cleaning something

နှင့်

hnin — With, and; formal conjunction or instrumental particle

ဆေးကြော

hsay-kyaw — To wash, cleanse, or rinse something thoroughly

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizing suffix turning verbs into abstract nouns

မည်မျှ

myi-hmya — How much, how many, to what extent

ပင်

pin — Even, indeed; emphatic particle for emphasis

ကြမ်းတမ်း

kyam-dan — Rough, harsh, rude, or crude in manner

စေ

se — Causative marker; to cause or let someone do

ကာမူ

ka-mu — Although, even though; concessive conjunction particle

နူးညံ့

nu-nyan — Gentle, soft, tender in nature or manner

မှု

hmu — Abstract noun suffix; matter, affair, or case

မဖျောက်နိုင်

ma-phyauk-naing — Unable to erase, remove, or eliminate something

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; formal attributive particle

လက်

let — Hand; also used in compound words broadly

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of; instrumental case particle

သည့်

thìn — Relative clause marker linking modifier to noun

ဦးခေါင်း

u-gaung — The head, the top part of the body

သပ်မွတ်

thet-moot — Neat, tidy, well-groomed in appearance

အမီ

a-mi — Just before; in time to catch or meet

အတွက်

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

ဆို

hso — To say, called; quotative or conditional particle

လျှင်

hlyin — If, when; conditional clause marker particle

ဆက်

hset — To continue, connect, or keep on doing

မင်း

min — You; informal second-person pronoun, also 'king'

အလွန်

a-lwun — Very, extremely, exceedingly; strong intensifier adverb

သေချာ

the-cha — Certain, sure, definite, reliable in nature

လွန်း

lun — Too much, overly; intensifier indicating excess

တည်ကြည်

te-kyi — Calm, composed, stable in mind or manner

တယ်

dè — Sentence-final particle for present or general statements

ရဲ့

yè — Possessive particle; informal genitive marker

အမူအကြံ

a-mu-a-kyan — Attitude, demeanor, intention behind one's behavior

အခု

a-khu — Now, at this moment, currently

တော့

taw — Topic marker; then, so; indicates shift or conclusion

ရယ်စရာ

yè-sa-ya — Laughable, amusing, something worth laughing at

သော်လည်း

thaw-lè — Although, even though; formal concessive conjunction

ဂရု

ga-yu — Care, attention, mindfulness toward something

မစိုက်

ma-soit — Not to pay attention; to ignore or disregard

ရင်

yin — If, when; conditional particle in casual speech

မာနကြီး

ma-na-kyi — Arrogant, proud, having excessive ego or pride

ငန်း

ngan — Business, work, task, or undertaking

ကလေး

ka-le — A child, a young kid, a baby

တစ်ကောင်

ta-kaung — One animal; classifier for counting animals

ဖြစ်လာ

phyit-la — To become, to come about, to develop into

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; locative particle or future marker

ယဉ်ကျေး

yin-kye — Civilized, cultured, polite, well-mannered behavior

သပ်ရပ်

thet-yat — Neat, tidy, clean in appearance or arrangement

တဲ့

dè — Informal relative clause marker; reported speech particle

အမူအကျင့်

a-mu-a-kyin — Behavior, habits, conduct, manner of acting

သန့်မြင့်

thàn-myìn — Pure, elevated, noble in character or quality

ပြောဆို

pyaw-hso — To speak, say, converse, or express verbally

ပုံ

pone — Picture, image, shape; also resemblance or form

ငါ

nga — I, me; informal first-person singular pronoun

ကြိုက်

kyaik — To like, be fond of, to prefer

ထည်ဝါ

htè-wa — Grand, magnificent, impressive, dignified in appearance

မကြိုးစား

ma-kyo-za — To not try, to make no effort at all

အခါ

a-kha — Time, occasion, when; temporal marker word

အဓိပ္ပာယ်မဲ့

a-dei-pan-mè — Meaningless, without sense or significance

စကားလုံး

sa-ka-lone — A word, a vocabulary item in language

ပြောစကား

pyaw-sa-ka — Words spoken, speech, what someone says

လို

lo — To need, want; like, as; similar to

ယောက်မလေး

yout-ma-le — A young girl, a little female child

ဆန်

hsan — Rice (uncooked); also means to oppose or resist

ကျမ

kya-ma — I, me; first-person pronoun used by females

ရော

yaw — Also, too; mixing particle or question softener

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative pronoun asking about things

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, to become, to happen or occur

မလဲ

ma-lè — Question particle asking 'isn't it?' or 'won't?'

ဆရာမကြီး

hsa-ya-ma-kyi — Senior female teacher or respected older woman teacher

ဝိုင်း

wain — Round, circular; to surround or gather around

တွင်

twìn — In, at, within; formal locative marker particle

ပါဝင်

pa-win — To participate, take part, be included in

အသင့်

a-thìn — Ready, prepared, in readiness for something

ကာ

ka — While doing; connective particle linking actions

မေး

me — To ask, to question, to inquire about

ချစ်ခင်

chit-kin — To love, cherish, feel affection toward someone

ဖွယ်ကောင်း

phwè-kaung — Worthy of, deserving of, suitable to be

သူ

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

တခြား

ta-hkya — Other, another, different, separate from this

မှ

hma — From, since, only then; source or ablative marker

မဟုတ်

ma-hote — Is not, are not; negative copula particle

နွေးနွေး

nwe-nwe — Warm and cozy; comfortably warm feeling

ထွေးထွေး

htwè-htwè — Warm and snug; affectionate cozy feeling

ဖြေ

phye — To answer, respond, or relieve something

ကြွက်လေး

kywe-le — A little mouse or small rat animal

မိသားစု

mi-tha-su — Family, household members related to each other

ချစ်သူ

chit-thu — A loved one, sweetheart, or dear person

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of, due to; causal particle marker

မည်သူ

myi-thu — Who; formal interrogative pronoun asking about person

မျှ

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

စကား

sa-ka — Speech, language, words, conversation between people

ဆန့်ကျင်

hsan-kyin — To oppose, contradict, go against something

မပြော

ma-pyaw — To not speak, not say, remain silent

ကြ

kya — Plural action marker; together or mutually doing

စာဖတ်သူ

sa-phet-thu — A reader, person who reads text or books

ငယ်

ngè — Young, small, junior in age or rank

လူ

lu — A person, human being, people in general

ဘယ်လို

bè-lo — How, in what way, in what manner

ဆောင်

hsaung — To carry, bear, hold; also to perform duties

သိ

thi — To know, understand, be aware of something

ချင်

chin — To want to, desire to do something

တတ်

tat — To be able to, skilled at, habitually does

ဒီ

di — This, here; informal demonstrative pronoun or adjective

အချိန်

a-chein — Time, period, moment in time or duration

အသုံးချ

a-thone-hcha — To make use of, utilize, exploit something or someone

နှင်းဆီ

hnin-hsi — A rose flower, the common garden rose

ပမာ

pa-ma — Like, similar to, as if, resembling

တိတ်ဆိတ်

teit-seit — Quiet, silent, still, free from noise

စွာ

swa — Adverbial suffix meaning in a manner of

ဒီဇင်ဘာ

di-zin-ba — December, the twelfth month of the year

နှင်း

hnin — Snow, frost; also dew or frozen precipitation

ကျ

kya — To fall, descend; also a self-referential pronoun

နေ

ne — To stay, live, reside; the sun; continuative marker

ချိန်

chein — Time, moment; also to aim or weigh something

မီးပုံ

mi-pone — A bonfire, a pile of burning fire

အတွင်း

a-twìn — Inside, within, interior of something or a period

ရွှင်လန်း

shwin-lan — Happy, cheerful, joyful, in a bright mood

တဖြတ်ဖြတ်

ta-phyet-phyet — Crackling, snapping sounds repeatedly made by fire

မီး

mi — Fire; also electricity or light in compounds

တောက်

tauk — To blaze, burn brightly, flame up intensely

ညဦးပိုင်း

nya-u-pine — Early evening, the beginning part of night

မှိန်ဝါး

hmein-wa — Dim, faint, blurry, not clearly visible

အလင်း

a-lin — Light, brightness, illumination in the surroundings

ချည်မျှင်

chyi-hmyin — A thread, string, or thin strand of fiber

ကင်ဆောင်

kin-hsaung — To carry, transport, bear something along

ပြု

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

မောင်နှမ

maung-hna-ma — Brother and sister, siblings together as a pair

လေးဦး

le-u — Four people; the classifier for counting persons

အနည်းငယ်

a-nyi-ngè — A little, a small amount, slightly, somewhat

ဖော်ပြ

phaw-pya — To describe, indicate, express, or represent something

ပေး

pe — To give, provide, offer to someone else

မည်

myi — Future tense marker in formal written Burmese

ဖြစ်သည်။

phyit-thì — Is, are, it is; formal copula ending a sentence