Little Women — Page 8

Vocabulary

ငါ

nga — I, me (informal first-person pronoun)

တို့

tote — We, us; plural marker for pronouns

ဘာ

bha — What; used in questions asking about things

လုပ်မယ်

loat mal — Will do; expresses intention to perform an action

ဆိုတာ

hsoe ta — Meaning that; used to explain or define something

ပြောမယ်

pyaw mal — Will say; expresses intention to speak

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'said that'

က

ka — Subject marker particle in a sentence

ပြောသည်

pyaw thit — Says, said; formal verb meaning to speak

ခရစ်စမတ်

kha yit sa mat — Christmas; annual Christian holiday in December

အတွက်

a twet — For; indicates purpose or benefit of an action

တစ်ယောက်စီ

tit yout si — Each person; one by one individually

သူမ

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

တစ်ခုခု

tit khu khu — Something; an unspecified thing or object

ယူကြစို့

yu kya zoe — Let's get/take; suggestion to obtain something together

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko tine — Oneself; personally, by one's own hand

တွေ

tway — Plural marker for nouns; those, these things

တော့

taw — Particle indicating contrast, continuation, or emphasis

ဘာမှ

bha hma — Nothing; not anything at all

မယူကြဘူး

ma yu kya boo — Will not take/get; collective negative intention

ဒါ

da — This, that; demonstrative pronoun for nearby things

မင်း

min — You; informal second-person pronoun

နဲ့

nait — And, with; connects nouns or clauses

တူတယ်

tu tal — Resembles, is similar; two things are alike

ချစ်သူ

chit thu — Loved one, sweetheart, romantic partner

ယူမလဲ

yu ma lal — Will you take/get it? Casual question particle

အော်

aw — Oh! Exclamation expressing surprise or realization

လိုက်သည်

lite thit — Follows, goes along with; accompanies an action

အားလုံး

a lone — Everyone, all, everything; the whole group

တစ်မိနစ်

tit mi nit — One minute; a short period of time

တည်တည်ငြိမ်ငြိမ်

tet tet nyime nyime — Calm and steady; composed, without agitation

စဉ်းစားကြပြီး

sin za kya pyi — Having thought and considered together; after deliberating

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun indicating one's own self

၏

e — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or belonging to

လှပသော

hla pa thaw — Beautiful, lovely; adjective describing attractive appearance

လက်များ

let myar — Hands; plural of hand

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; indicates direct object of verb

မြင်ရသောအခါ

myint ya thaw a kha — When seeing; at the moment of seeing something

အကြံ

a kyan — Idea, plan, suggestion; a thought or proposal

ဝင်လာသည်

win la thit — Came in, entered; something arrived or occurred

ထင်ရသကဲ့သို့

hting ya tha kait thoe — As it seems, as if it appears to be

ကျမ

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

လက်အိတ်

let ait — Gloves; hand covering worn for warmth or protection

တစ်စုံ

tit sone — A pair, a set; one complete matched unit

ပေးမည်

pay mal — Will give; formal expression of intention to give

ကြေညာသည်

kya nya thit — Announces, declares; makes a formal statement publicly

တပ်တော်

tat taw — Military, armed forces; also used as royal honorific

ဖိနပ်

hpa nat — Shoes, footwear; items worn on the feet

ရနိုင်သမျှ

ya nine tha mya — As much as can be obtained; the best available

အကောင်းဆုံး

a kaung zone — The best; superlative form of good

ကြွေးကြော်

kway kyaw — Slogan, chant; words called out loudly together

သည်

thit — Present tense verb marker; formal sentence-ending particle

လက်ကိုင်ပဝါ

let kine pa wa — Handkerchief; small cloth carried for wiping hands

အချို့

a choe — Some, a few; an unspecified small number

အနား

a nar — Beside, near; close to something or someone

စီထားသော

si htar thaw — Arranged, lined up; items placed in order

ကိုလိုးညှပ်

ko lo nyat — Cologne; scented liquid applied to the body

ဆေးရည်

say yay — Liquid medicine or scented liquid; perfume or tonic

ပုလင်းလေး

pa lin lay — Small bottle; a little vial or flask

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One thing; a single item or unit

ယူမယ်

yu mal — Will take, will get; intention to obtain something

ကြိုက်တယ်

kyite tal — Likes, is fond of; expresses personal preference

ပြီးတော့

pyi taw — And then, after that; indicates sequence of events

များများ

myar myar — Many, a lot; in large quantities or amounts

မကုန်ဘူး

ma kone boo — Won't run out; will not be used up

ဒါကြောင့်

da kyaung — Therefore, so; indicates cause and effect relationship

ခဲတံ

khet tan — Pencil; writing instrument with graphite core

ဝယ်ဖို့

wel hpoe — In order to buy; purpose of making a purchase

အနည်းငယ်

a nee ngel — A little, a small amount; slightly

ကျန်

kyan — Remaining, left over; what is still there

မှာပါ

hma ba — Is at/in; polite confirmation of location or existence

ထပ်ဆင့်

htat saint — Additionally, layered; one on top of another

အရာဝတ္ထု

a ya wat thu — Object, thing, item; a physical material thing

ဘယ်လို

bel lo — How, in what way; asking about manner or method

ပေးမှာလဲ

pay hma lal — How will you give it? Questioning future giving

မေးသည်

may thit — Asks, asked; formal verb meaning to question

စားပွဲ

sar bwel — Table; furniture used for eating or working

ပေါ်

paw — On top of, above; positional preposition

မှာ

hma — At, in, on; location marker or ordering particle

တင်ထား

tin htar — Placed on, put on top; left sitting there

ခေါ်လာပြီး

khaw la pyi — Having brought; called and brought something along

အထုပ်

a htoat — Package, parcel, bundle; a wrapped item

ဖွင့်တာ

hpwin ta — Opening; the act of opening something

ကြည့်ကြစို့

kyi kya zoe — Let's look/watch; suggestion to observe together

မွေးနေ့

mway nay — Birthday; the anniversary of one's birth

လုပ်ကြ

loat kya — Let's do, do together; group action verb

မမှတ်မိ

ma hmat mi — Can't remember; unable to recall something

တော့ဘူး

taw boo — No longer, not anymore; negates continued state

လား

lar — Question particle; turns statement into yes/no question

ဖြေသည်

pyay thit — Answers, replied; formal verb meaning to respond

ရဲ့

yait — Possessive or topic marker; informal 'of' particle

အလှည့်

a hlyit — Turn, rotation; one's designated turn in sequence

ကျပြီး

kya pyi — Having fallen to; came to one's turn

သရဖူ

tha ya hpu — Crown; ornamental headpiece worn by royalty

ဆောင်းကာ

hsaung ga — While wearing on the head; adorning as a crown

ထိုင်ခုံ

htine khone — Chair, seat; furniture used for sitting

ထိုင်ပြီး

htine pyi — Having sat down; after sitting in a place

လက်ဆောင်

let hsaung — Gift, present; something given to another person

နမ်း

nan — Kiss; to press lips against someone affectionately

ကာ

ga — While doing; continuative particle indicating ongoing action

ပေးဖို့

pay hpoe — In order to give; purpose of giving something

တစ်ပတ်

tit pat — One week; a period of seven days

လည်ပတ်

le pat — To go around, circulate; travel or wander about

လာကြတာ

la kya ta — They came; plural action of coming somewhere

ကြည့်ရတဲ့

kyi ya dait — That one sees/watches; related to viewing or watching

အချိန်

a chine — Time; a period or moment in time

သိပ်

thate — Very, extremely; intensifier adverb

ကြောက်မိ

kyout mi — Got scared, was frightened; sudden feeling of fear

တတ်တယ်

tat tal — Tends to, is able to; habitual or capable action

နမ်းခြင်း

nan chin — Kissing; the act or instance of giving a kiss

ဒါပေမဲ့

da pay mait — But, however; introduces a contrasting statement

ဖွင့်နေချိန်

hpwin nay chine — While opening; the time during which something opens

ကြည့်နေတာ

kyi nay ta — Is watching, looking on; ongoing act of observing

ကြောက်စရာ

kyout sa ya — Scary, frightening; something that causes fear

ကောင်းတယ်

kaung tal — Good, nice; expresses positive quality or approval

တစ်ချိန်တည်း

tit chine tet — At the same time; simultaneously occurring

မျက်နှာ

myat hna — Face; the front part of a person's head

လက်ဖက်ရည်

la hpet yay — Tea; popular Burmese hot or cold beverage

ပေါင်မုန့်

paung mone — Bread; baked food made from flour and water

မီး

mi — Fire, flame; also refers to electricity or light

ကင်နေသော

kin nay thaw — That is being grilled/toasted; currently being cooked

ဝယ်နေတယ်

wel nay tal — Is buying; currently in the process of purchasing

လို့

loe — Quotative or reason particle; 'because' or 'saying that'

ထင်ထားစေပြီး

hting htar say pyi — Having made someone think or believe something

အံ့သြ

an tho — Surprised, amazed; feeling of wonder or astonishment

စေကြစို့

say kya zoe — Let's make happen; causative suggestion for a group

မနက်ဖြန်

ma net hpyan — Tomorrow; the day following today

မွန်းလွဲ

mone lwal — Afternoon; the time period after midday

ပိုင်း

pine — Part, section, half; a division of time or thing

ဈေး

zay — Market, bazaar; place where goods are bought and sold

သွားရမယ်

thwar ya mal — Must go, have to go; obligatory future movement