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Vocabulary

ကျွန်မသည်

kyun-ma thì — I (female first-person pronoun, formal)

အမျိုးသမီးတစ်ယောက်

a-myò-tha-mee tit-yout — A woman; one female person

ဖြစ်သောကြောင့်

hpyit thò kyaung — Because of being; since one is

ကောင်းကျိုး

kaung-kyò — Benefit; good result or advantage

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ

tit-soun tit-ya — Something; anything at all

မပြုနိုင်

ma-pyu-naing — Cannot do; unable to perform an action

သောကြောင့်၊

thò kyaung — Therefore; because of that reason

ထိုအရာနှင့်

htò a-ya hnin — With that thing; together with that

နီးစပ်

nee-zat — Close; near; related or connected to

အစဉ်မပြတ်

a-sin ma-pyat — Continuously; without interruption or stopping

လှမ်းဆွဲ

hlàn-zwè — To reach out and pull; attract from afar

ရမည်။

ya-myi — Must obtain; shall receive (future obligation)

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction)

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; is/are (copula)

ဆင်းရဲ

sin-yè — Poor; humble; plain in quality

သော

thò — That; which (relative clause particle)

အဝတ်အစား

a-wut a-sà — Clothing; garments; attire worn on body

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; owing to

ပိုမို

po-mo — More; even more; to a greater degree

ထင်ရှား

htin-shà — Prominent; obvious; clearly noticeable

လာသည့်

la-thì — That comes; becoming (progressive particle)

အလှအပ

a-lha a-pa — Beauty; attractiveness; good looks

မျိုးကို

myò go — Type of; kind of (object marker)

ပိုင်ဆိုင်

paing-saing — To own; to possess; to have as property

သူဖြစ်သည်။

thu hpyit thì — He/she is; that person is (statement)

သူမ၏

thu-ma yè — Her; belonging to her (possessive)

လက်နှင့်

let hnin — With the hand; using hands

လက်ကောက်ဝတ်

let-kauk-wut — Wrist; the joint between hand and arm

အလွန်

a-lwan — Very; extremely; exceedingly so

သွယ်ဝေး

thwè-wè — Slender; gracefully thin and delicate

သပ်ရပ်စွာ

thet-yat-swa — Neatly; tidily; in an elegant manner

ပုံသွင်း

poun-thwin — To mold; to shape; to form into shape

ဖန်တီး

hpan-tee — To create; to make; to produce artistically

ထားသော

htà thò — That has been placed or done (past participle)

အီတလီနိုင်ငံ

Ee-ta-lee naing-ngan — Italy; the European country named Italy

ပန်းချီဆရာ

pan-ji hsa-ya — Painter; artist who creates visual art

များ၏

myà yè — Of many; belonging to several (plural possessive)

ကိုးကွယ်ရာ

ko-kwè-ya — Object of worship; devotional figure or subject

သန့်ရှင်းသော

thàn-shin thò — Holy; pure; sacred and clean

ကညာတော်

ka-nya-daw — Holy virgin; revered maiden (religious reference)

ပုံရိပ်တွင်

poun-yit twin — In the image; within the portrait or picture

ဆင်ယင်

sin-yin — To adorn; to decorate oneself; to dress up

ထားသည့်

htà-thì — That has been placed or kept (modifier)

လက်ကွပ်နှင့်

let-kwut hnin — With gloves; together with hand coverings

အင်္ကျီလက်

in-ji-let — Shirt sleeve; the arm part of a shirt

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to; towards

ဝတ်ဆင်

wut-sin — To wear; to put on clothing or accessories

နိုင်ခဲ့သည်၊

naing-khè-thì — Was able to; managed to (past ability)

မျက်နှာပြင်

myet-hna-byin — Face surface; complexion; facial appearance

အရပ်အမောင်း၊

a-yat a-maung — Height and build; physical stature and frame

ကိုယ်ဟန်

ko-han — Posture; bearing; physical manner and poise

အနေအထား

a-ne a-htà — Situation; condition; position or circumstance

တို့သည်

to thì — They; those (plural topic marker)

သာမန်

tha-man — Ordinary; average; common; not special

ဝတ်စုံမှ

wut-soun hma — From the outfit; compared to the costume

ပိုမိုသော

po-mo thò — Greater; more than; exceeding in degree

ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာ

goun-thitsa — Dignity; honor; prestige and noble bearing

ရရှိသ

ya-shi-tha — Obtained; acquired; having received (partial)

ကဲ့သို့

kè-dhò — Like; similar to; as if resembling

ပြီး၊

pyi — And then; finished; completion marker

ထိုဝတ်စုံ

htò wut-soun — That outfit; that particular set of clothing

ဒေသတွင်း

de-tha-twin — Regional; local; within a specific area

ဖက်ရှင်

hpet-shin — Fashion; trendy style of clothing

နှိုင်းယှဉ်

hnine-shin — To compare; to contrast side by side

လျှင်

lyin — If; when; conditional particle in sentences

ယနေ့

ya-nè — Today; the present day

သတင်းစာ၏

tha-din-za yè — Of the newspaper; belonging to the press

စာပိုဒ်

za-pout — Paragraph; a section of written text

တစ်ခု

tit-khu — One; a single unit or item

အတွင်း

a-twin — Inside; within; during a period

သမ္မာကျမ်းစာ

tha-ma-kyan-za — The Holy Bible; sacred scripture

မှ

hma — From; out of; ablative source marker

ဖြစ်စေ၊

hpyit-se — Whether; be it; causing to be (either/or)

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏

kyun-nou-to yè — Our; belonging to us (formal possessive)

ရှေး

shè — Ancient; old; former times; long ago

ကဗျာဆရာကြီး

ka-bya hsa-ya-ji — Great poet; a renowned master of poetry

များထဲမှ

myà-htè hma — From among many; out of several

တစ်ဦးထံမှ

tit-ù htan hma — From one person; from a single individual

ဖြစ်စေ

hpyit-se — Whether; either; causing to happen

ကောင်းသော

kaung thò — Good; fine; that which is good

ကိုးကားချက်

ko-kà-jet — Quotation; citation; referenced passage

ထိရောက်မှု

hti-yauk-hmu — Effectiveness; impact; the quality of working well

သူမအား

thu-ma à — To her; for her (indirect object marker)

ပေးခဲ့သည်။

pe-khè-thì — Gave; had given (past tense of give)

သူမကို

thu-ma go — Her; to her (direct object marker)

ထူးထူးခြားခြား

htù-htù-jà-jà — Remarkably; extraordinarily; in an exceptional way

ထက်မြက်

htet-myet — Clever; sharp; intellectually keen

သူဟု

thu hù — That she/he is; said to be (quotative)

များသောအားဖြင့်

myà-thò à-hpyin — Generally; mostly; for the most part

ပြောဆို

pyò-so — To say; to speak; to express verbally

ကြလေ့ရှိ

kya-lè-shi — Tend to; habitually do (habitual aspect)

သော်လည်း

thaw-lè — However; although; but (concessive conjunction)

မောင်နှမ

maung-hna-ma — Siblings; brother and sister together

အသိဥာဏ်

a-thi-nyán — Intelligence; wisdom; mental capability

ရှိသည်ဟု

shi-thì hù — That there is; said to have (quotative)

ထပ်လောင်း

htat-laung — To add; additionally; on top of that

ကြသည်။

kya-thì — They do; plural action marker (verb suffix)

သို့သော်လည်း

dhò-thaw-lè — Nevertheless; however; yet (strong concession)

အလှဆင်

a-lha-sin — To beautify; to adorn; to apply cosmetics

အပြင်ပြုမှု

a-pyin-pyu-hmu — Grooming; external preparation; beautification effort

များ

myà — Many; plural marker; more than one

မပိုဘဲ

ma-po-bè — Without exceeding; not more than; equally

ခဲ့သည်၊

khè-thì — Did (past tense experiential marker)

ဝတ်စုံ

wut-soun — Outfit; costume; complete set of clothing

သူမ

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

နှမ၏

hna-ma yè — Of the younger sister; sister's (possessive)

ကွာခြား

kwa-jà — To differ; to be distinct; to stand apart

ကြောင်း

kyaung — That; the fact that (nominalizer/evidential)

၎င်း၏

di-jin yè — Its; of it; belonging to that thing

ပြင်ဆင်မှု

pyin-sin-hmu — Preparation; arrangement; making ready

များတွင်

myà-twin — Among; within many; in the midst of

လိင်ဆွဲဆောင်မှု

lain-zwè-zaung-hmu — Sexual attraction; sensual allure or appeal

အနည်းငယ်

a-ni-ngè — A little; slightly; a small amount

ပါဝင်

pa-win — To include; to participate; to be part of

ကြောင်းကို

kyaung go — The fact that (nominalized clause, object)

နီးကပ်စွာ

nee-kat-swa — Closely; attentively; in a near manner

ကြည့်ရှု

kyi-shu — To observe; to look at; to view carefully

သောသူ

thò-thu — The person who; one who does

သိနိုင်သည်၊

thi-naing-thì — Can know; is able to understand

အကြောင်းမှာ

a-kyaung hma — The reason is; because (explanatory phrase)

ဝတ်ဆင်မှု

wut-sin-hmu — The act of dressing; manner of wearing clothes

ရောနှော

yaw-hnaw — Mixed; blended; combined together

အခြေအနေ

a-khè a-ne — Situation; condition; state of affairs

များကြောင့်

myà kyaung — Because of many; due to various factors

ဖြစ်ပြီး၊

hpyit-pyi — Being; having become (sequential connector)

ထို

htò — That; those; referring to something mentioned

အများစု

a-myà-zu — The majority; most of; the greater part

တွင်

twin — In; at; within (locative particle)

နှမ

hna-ma — Younger sister; female sibling (younger)

တူညီစွာ

tu-nyi-swa — Equally; similarly; in the same manner

ခဲ့သည်။

khè-thì — Did; has done (past experiential sentence-final)