Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Page 1

Vocabulary

ဘဝကို

ba-wa-ko — Life; referring to one's existence or living experience

ဖော်ပြသော

phaw-pya-thaw — Describing, depicting, or illustrating something clearly

ဇာတ်လမ်းတမ်း

zat-lan-dan — Narrative account or memoir of one's life story

အမေရိကန်

a-me-yi-kan — American; relating to the United States of America

ကျွန်တစ်ယောက်၏

kyun-ta-yauq-i — Of or belonging to one slave, possessive phrase

အဖြစ်အပျက်။

a-phyit-a-pyeq — Events, incidents, or happenings that occurred

မိမိကိုယ်တိုင်

mi-mi-ko-dain — Oneself; by one's own self, personally written

ရေးသားသည်။

yei-tha-dhi — Written or composed by someone, authorship term

ကျွန်စနစ်ဆန့်ကျင်ရေး

kyun-sa-niq-san-chin-yei — Anti-slavery movement opposing the institution of slavery

ရုံးခန်း၊

yone-khan — Office room or administrative chamber, official space

လမ်း

lan — Street or road, a path for travel or navigation

အမှတ်

a-hmeq — Number or mark, used to indicate address or reference

၂၅

hnit-se-nga — Twenty-five, a numerical value in Burmese numerals

တွင်

twin — In, at, or within a specified place or time

ခုနှစ်၌

khu-hniq-neq — In the year; temporal locative marker for a year

ထုတ်ဝေသည်။

thuq-wei-dhi — Published or released, brought out for distribution

ခရိုင်တရားရုံး၏

kha-yain-ta-ya-yone-i — Of the district court, a regional judicial institution

မှတ်တမ်းဌာနတွင်

hmeq-dan-hta-na-twin — In the records office or archives department

ကွန်ဂရက်ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ

Kun-ga-yeq-u-pa-dei-hnin-a-nyi — In accordance with the law of Congress

မှတ်ပုံတင်ခဲ့သည်။

hmeq-pone-tin-khei-dhi — Registered or recorded officially in a legal document

မူရင်းဖိုင်မှ

mu-yin-phain-hma — From the original file or source document

မှတ်ချက်။

hmeq-cheq — Note or comment, a remark added for clarification

ဤ

i — This; a demonstrative pronoun pointing to something near

အီလက်ထရောနစ်

i-leq-hta-yaw-niq — Electronic, relating to digital or electronic technology

စာအုပ်ကို

sa-ouq-ko — Book; referring to a written or printed publication

မွေးနေ့ကို

mwei-nei-ko — Birthday; the anniversary of one's day of birth

ဂုဏ်ပြုသော

goun-pyu-thaw — Honoring or commemorating someone with respect

အနေဖြင့်

a-nei-phyin — As; in the manner of, used to indicate purpose

အချိန်တွင်

a-chain-twin — At the time; within a particular period or moment

ထုတ်ဝေ

thuq-wei — To publish or release content for public access

ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။

chin-phyiq-thi — It is the act of; nominalizing verb phrase ending

ခုနှစ်

khu-hniq — Year; used to indicate a specific calendar year

ဇန်နဝါရီ

Zan-na-wa-yi — January, the first month of the Gregorian calendar

၁၅

se-nga — Fifteen, the ordinal day number in a month

ရက်

yeq — Day; a unit of time within a month

မွေးဖွားသည်]

mwei-phwa-dhi — Was born; refers to the date of one's birth

၂၀

hnit-se — Twenty, a numeral indicating day or quantity

ရက်တွင်

yeq-twin — On the day of; temporal locative for a specific date

တရားဝင်

ta-ya-win — Official or legally recognized, lawfully acknowledged

ကျင်းပသည်

chin-ba-dhi — To hold or conduct an event or ceremony officially

မာတိကာ

ma-ti-ka — Table of contents; list of topics in a book

နိဒါန်း

ni-dan — Introduction or preface to a book or speech

မစ္စတာထံမှ

Miq-sa-ta-hton-hma — From Mr., indicating a letter from a male person

စာ

sa — Letter or writing; written communication between people

အခန်း

a-khan — Chapter or room; a section within a book

၁

tiq — One; the first numeral in Burmese numbering system

၂

hniq — Two; the second numeral in Burmese numbering system

၃

thone — Three; the third numeral in Burmese numbering system

၄

lei — Four; the fourth numeral in Burmese numbering system

၅

nga — Five; the fifth numeral in Burmese numbering system

၆

chouq — Six; the sixth numeral in Burmese numbering system

၇

khu-hniq — Seven; the seventh numeral in Burmese numbering system

၈

shiq — Eight; the eighth numeral in Burmese numbering system

၉

ko — Nine; the ninth numeral in Burmese numbering system

၁၀

se — Ten; the tenth numeral in Burmese numbering system

၁၁

se-tiq — Eleven; the eleventh numeral in Burmese system

ဆက်စပ်စာရွက်စာတမ်း

seq-saq-sa-yweq-sa-dan — Related documents or supplementary written materials

သရော်စာ

tha-yaw-sa — Satirical writing or lampoon mocking something critically

သြဂုတ်လ

Aw-gouq-la — August, the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar

ကျွန်ုပ်သည်

kyun-ou-dhi — I; first-person singular formal pronoun in Burmese

မြို့၌

myou-neq — In the town or city; locative marker for a place

ကျင်းပသော

chin-ba-thaw — Held or conducted, describing an organized event

ကျွန်စနစ်

kyun-sa-niq — Slavery system; the institution of enslaving people

ဆန့်ကျင်ရေး

san-chin-yei — Opposition or resistance movement against something

စည်းဝေးပွဲသို့

si-wei-bwe-dho — To the meeting or gathering; directional phrase

တက်ရောက်ခဲ့ပြီး

teq-yauq-khei-byi — Attended and then; past tense of attending an event

ထို

hto — That; a demonstrative adjective pointing to something distant

စည်းဝေးပွဲတွင်

si-wei-bwe-twin — At the meeting; locative phrase for a gathering event

ဇာတ်လမ်းတမ်းကို

zat-lan-dan-ko — The narrative; object marker on memoir or life story

ရေးသားသူ

yei-tha-dhu — The writer or author who composed the narrative

မိတ်ဆက်ခွင့်ရသည်မှာ

meiq-seq-khwin-ya-dhi-hma — Having the opportunity to be introduced to someone

ကျွန်ုပ်အတွက်

kyun-ou-a-tweq — For me; indicating something is in one's interest

ပျော်ရွှင်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

pyaw-shwin-phwei-kaun-thaw — Joyful or delightful; something that brings happiness

အဖြစ်တစ်ခု

a-phyiq-tiq-khu — An occurrence or event; one particular happening

ဖြစ်ပါသည်။

phyiq-ba-dhi — It is; polite affirmative statement ending in Burmese

အဖွဲ့၏

a-phwei-i — Of the group or organization, possessive marker

အဖွဲ့ဝင်

a-phwei-win — Member of a group or organization or association

အများစုနှင့်

a-mya-su-hnin — With the majority; most members of a group

သူသည်

thu-dhi — He or she is; third-person singular subject marker

မရင်းနှီးသောသူ

ma-yin-hni-thaw-dhu — A person who is unfamiliar or not closely acquainted

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်၊

phyiq-khei-dhi — Was or had been; past tense existential verb

သို့သော်

dho-thaw — However or but; a contrastive conjunction in sentences

တောင်ပိုင်းရှိ

taun-pain-shi — Located in the south; referring to the southern region

ချည်နှောင်

chi-hnoun — To bind or shackle; restraining someone physically

ချုပ်ခြယ်မှုဆိုင်ရာ

chouq-chye-hmu-sain-ya — Related to control, oppression, or restraint of people

အကျဉ်းထောင်မှ

a-chin-daun-hma — From the prison or place of confinement

မကြာသေးမီက

ma-kya-thei-mi-ga — Recently; not long ago, a short time before now

ထွက်ပြေးနိုင်ခဲ့ပြီး

thweq-pyei-nain-khei-byi — Had managed to escape and then; successful flight

ကျွန်ဘဝ

kyun-ba-wa — Slave life; the existence and condition of enslaved people

ဖြစ်နေစဉ်က

phyiq-nei-sin-ga — While being; during the period of a certain state

တစ်ဝက်တစ်ပျက်

tiq-weq-tiq-pyeq — Partially or incompletely; only half or partly heard

ကြားသိခဲ့ရသော

kya-thi-khei-ya-thaw — Having heard or come to know about something

ဖျက်သိမ်းရေးသမားများ၏

phyeq-thein-yei-tha-ma-mya-i — Of the abolitionists; those fighting to end slavery

မူဝါဒနှင့်

mu-wa-diq-hnin — With policies; principles guiding an organization's actions

နည်းလမ်းများကို

nei-lan-mya-go — Methods or approaches; ways of doing something

ကောင်းကောင်း

kaun-kaun — Well or thoroughly; doing something properly and fully

သိရှိလိုသော

thi-shi-lo-thaw — Wishing to know or understand; desire for knowledge

စိတ်ဆန္ဒ

seiq-sanda — Desire or wish; an inner motivation or aspiration

ပြင်းထန်လာသောကြောင့်

pyin-htan-la-thaw-kyaun — Because it grew intense; due to something strengthening

ထိုအချိန်တွင်

hto-a-chain-twin — At that time; referring to a specific past moment

နေထိုင်နေသော်လည်း

nei-htain-nei-thaw-le — Although living there; concessive clause about residence

ထည့်သွင်း

hteq-thwin — To include or insert; to add into something

ဖော်ပြခဲ့သည့်

phaw-pya-khei-dhi — That was described or stated; past reference clause

အခမ်းအနားသို့

a-khan-a-na-dho — To the ceremony or formal occasion; directional phrase

တက်ရောက်ရန်

teq-yauq-yan — In order to attend; purpose clause for participation

တိုက်တွန်းမှု

tike-tun-hmu — Encouragement or urging; a push to do something

ခံခဲ့ရသည်။

khan-khei-ya-dhi — Was urged or received; passive experience of being encouraged

ကံကောင်းသော၊

kan-kaun-thaw — Fortunate or lucky; having good fortune in a situation

အလွန်

a-lun — Very or extremely; an intensifier for adjectives

ကံကောင်းသော

kan-kaun-thaw — Fortunate or lucky; describing a positive circumstance

အဖြစ်အပျက်

a-phyiq-a-pyeq — Event or incident; a significant happening that occurred

တစ်ခု

tiq-khu — One; a single unit or one occurrence of something

ဖြစ်ပါသည်!

phyiq-ba-dhi — It is; emphatic affirmative statement with exclamation

လက်ဝတ်

leq-wuq — Shackled or chained; wearing chains on the wrists

ချည်နှောင်ခံ

chi-hnoun-khan — To be bound or restrained; subjected to physical bonds

ထားရသော

hta-ya-thaw — That must be kept or maintained in a condition

သူ၏

thu-i — His or her; third-person singular possessive pronoun

ညီအကို

nyi-a-ko — Brothers; male siblings including older and younger

ပေါင်း

paun — Combined or totaling; adding together a number

သန်းပေါင်းများစွာ

than-paun-mya-zwa — Millions; an enormous number of people combined

အတွက်

a-tweq — For; indicating purpose or benefit for someone

ကံကောင်းပါသည်၊

kan-kaun-ba-dhi — It is fortunate; expressing luck or good fortune politely

သူတို့သည်

thu-do-dhi — They are; third-person plural subject pronoun marker

၎င်းတို့၏

yin-do-i — Their; third-person plural possessive pronoun in Burmese

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

kyauq-meq-phwei-kaun-thaw — Terrible or dreadful; describing something inspiring great fear

ကျွန်ဘဝမှ

kyun-ba-wa-hma — From slave life; escaping the condition of slavery

လွတ်မြောက်ရေးကို

lwuq-myauq-yei-go — The liberation or freedom; escape from bondage as object

ဆာတောင်းနေဆဲ

sa-taun-nei-zei — Still hungering or yearning; continuing to long for freedom

ဖြစ်သည်!

phyiq-thi — It is; emphatic affirmation with exclamatory feeling

မည်းမဲသောသူများ၏

myi-mei-thaw-dhu-mya-i — Of the dark-skinned people; referring to Black individuals

လွတ်မြောက်ရေး

lwuq-myauq-yei — Liberation or emancipation; the cause of achieving freedom

အရေးနှင့်

a-yei-hnin — With the cause or matter; linking two important concerns

လူသားတစ်ရပ်လုံး၏

lu-tha-tiq-yaq-lone-i — Of all humanity; belonging to the entire human race

လွတ်လပ်ရေး

lwuq-laq-yei — Freedom or independence; the state of being liberated

ကံကောင်းပါသည်!

kan-kaun-ba-dhi — Fortunate indeed; exclamatory expression of good fortune