Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Page 7

Vocabulary

သူတို့၏

thu-to-yi — Their; possessive pronoun for third person plural

ဉာဏ်ရည်ကို

nyan-yay-go — Intelligence or intellect; object marker attached

ချိနဲ့စေရန်၊

chi-nay-zay-yan — In order to weaken or diminish something

စိတ်နေသဘောထားကို

seit-nay-tha-baw-hta-go — One's attitude or mental disposition; object form

မှောင်မိုက်စေရန်၊

hmawng-mike-zay-yan — In order to darken or obscure mentally

သီလဓမ္မ

thila-dhamma — Moral virtue and righteous principles combined

သဘောသဘာဝကို

tha-baw-tha-ba-go — Nature or character of something; object form

ညိုးနွမ်းစေရန်၊

nyo-nwan-zay-yan — In order to cause dejection or depression

လူသားများနှင့်

lu-tha-mya-hnin — With human beings; connective particle attached

ဆက်နွှယ်မှု၏

set-hway-hmu-yi — Connection or relationship; possessive marker attached

အရာရာကို

a-ya-ya-go — Everything; all things; object marker attached

ဖျောက်ဖျက်ရန်

pyawt-pyet-yan — In order to destroy or erase completely

တစ်ခုမျှ

tit-khu-mya — Not even one; not a single thing

မကျန်ရှိခဲ့ပေ၊

ma-kyan-shi-kheh-bey — Nothing remained; there was nothing left

သို့သော်လည်း

tho-dha-leh — However; nevertheless; conjunctive expression

သူတို့သည်

thu-to-dhi — They; third person plural subject marker

ရာစုနှစ်များစွာ

ya-su-hnit-mya-zwa — Many centuries; a great many hundred years

ညည်းတွားခဲ့ရသည့်

nyi-twa-kheh-ya-dhi — Having had to groan or suffer for long

အကြောက်ဆုံးသော

a-kyawt-zone-dha — Most fearful; most terrible or dreadful

ကျွန်ဘဝ၏

kyun-ba-wa-yi — Of the state of slavery; enslaved existence

လေးလံသောဝန်ကို

lay-lan-dha-wun-go — The heavy burden; weighty load (object form)

မည်မျှ

ma-mya — How much; to what extent; how greatly

အံ့ဖွယ်ရာ

an-phway-ya — Wonderfully; amazingly; in an astonishing manner

ခံနိုင်ရည်ရှိစွာ

khan-nine-yay-shi-zwa — With resilience; enduringly; with great endurance

ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့ကြသနည်း။

htan-zawng-kheh-kya-tha-neh — How did they bear or carry it together?

လူဖြူများအပေါ်

lu-phyu-mya-a-paw — Upon or toward white people; regarding white people

ကျွန်စနစ်၏

kyun-sa-nit-yi — Of the slavery system; possessive form

သက်ရောက်မှုကို

thet-yawt-hmu-go — The impact or effect; influence (object form)

သရုပ်ဖော်ရန်၊

tha-yoat-phaw-yan — In order to demonstrate or illustrate clearly

ထိုကဲ့သို့သော

hto-keh-tho-dha — Such as that; of that kind or nature

အခြေအနေတွင်

a-chay-a-nay-twin — In such circumstances; within that situation

သူသည်

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

သူ၏

thu-yi — His or her; third person singular possessive

မည်းမဲသော

myi-meh-dha — Dark-skinned; black; describing dark complexion

ညီအစ်ကိုများထက်

nyi-a-ko-mya-htet — More than brothers; compared to one's brothers

မရှိကြောင်း

ma-shi-kyawng — That there is none; indicating nonexistence

ပြသရန်၊

pya-tha-yan — In order to show or demonstrate something

ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ

kamba-lone-syne-ya — Global; worldwide; pertaining to the whole world

လွတ်မြောက်ရေး၏

lwat-myawt-yay-yi — Of the cause of liberation or freedom

ထင်ရှားသော

htin-sha-dha — Notable; prominent; well-known; distinguished

ထောက်ခံသူနှင့်

htawt-khan-thu-hnin — With the supporter or advocate; together with

ခံရသော်လည်း

khan-ya-dha-leh — Although subjected to; even though suffering

အားအကြီးဆုံး

a-a-kyi-zone — Greatest in strength; most powerful champion

ချန်ပီယံဖြစ်သော

chan-pi-yan-phyit-tha — Who is the champion; being the champion

ခုနှစ်

khu-hnit — Year; used after numbers to indicate year

မတ်လ

mat-la — March; the third month of the year

ရက်၊

yet — Day; date; used for calendar dates

ပြုလုပ်သော

pyu-loat-tha — Which was done or made; performed

မိန့်ခွန်းတွင်

mein-khwan-twin — Within a speech; in a formal address

အောက်ပါ

awkt-pa — The following; below-mentioned; as stated below

ဖြစ်ရပ်မှန်ကို

phyit-yat-mhan-go — The true fact or actual event (object form)

ပြောကြားခဲ့သည်။

pyaw-kya-kheh-dhi — Stated or declared; said publicly

မည်သည့်

ma-dhi — Whatever; whichever; no matter what

လှပသောစကားလုံးဖြင့်

hla-pa-dha-za-ga-lone-phyin — With beautiful or fair words; using fine language

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi-mi-ko-go — Oneself; reflexive pronoun meaning themselves

ဖုံးကွယ်စေကာမူ

phone-kwel-zay-ga-mu — Even though concealing or disguising itself

ကျွန်စနစ်သည်

kyun-sa-nit-dhi — The slavery system; subject marker attached

ဆိုးရွားကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်ရာ

zo-ywa-kyawt-met-phway-ya — Terrible and dreadful; horrifyingly bad

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-dhi — Is; exists; to be (present tense)

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'thus' or 'saying'

မစ္စတာ

mit-sa-ta — Mister; formal title of address for men

လူသား၏

lu-tha-yi — Of humanity; human being's possessive form

မြင့်မြတ်သော

myin-myat-tha — Noble; exalted; lofty in character

စွမ်းရည်တိုင်းကို

zwan-yay-tine-go — Every capacity or faculty; all abilities (object)

ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်စေရန်

yet-set-kyan-kyoat-zay-yan — In order to brutalize or make cruel and harsh

သဘာဝကျသော

tha-ba-wa-kya-dha — Natural; inherent; naturally occurring tendency

မလွှဲမသာဖြစ်သည့်

ma-hlwe-ma-tha-phyit-dhi — Inevitable; unavoidable; inescapably occurring

သဘောသဘာဝ

tha-baw-tha-ba-wa — Nature; inherent character; natural disposition

ရှိသည်။

shi-dhi — There is; exists; has (existential verb)

ရောက်ရှိသွားပြီး

yawt-shi-thwa-byi — Having arrived and reached; after getting there

နှစ်သုံးနှစ်တိုင်အောင်

hnit-thone-hnit-tine-awng — For three whole years; throughout three years

ကျွန်ဘဝဖြင့်

kyun-ba-wa-phyin — By means of a life of slavery; in bondage

နေထိုင်ခဲ့ရသော

nay-htine-kheh-ya-dha — Having had to live; who was forced to reside

ထိုကာလ

hto-ga-la — That period of time; that era or duration

ကုန်ဆုံးသောအခါ

kun-zone-dha-a-kha — When that time was over; after that period ended

တိရစ္ဆာန်နှင့်

ta-yit-san-hnin — With animals; like an animal; together with beasts

ကဲ့သို့

keh-tho — Like; similar to; in the manner of

ကြမ်းတမ်းကာ

kyan-tan-ga — Being brutal or rough; having become coarse

မိုက်မဲ့

mike-meh — Foolish; stupid; dull-minded; ignorant

မှောင်မိုက်သွားသည်ကို

hmawng-mike-thwa-dhi-go — The fact that he became darkened mentally

တွေ့ရှိရသည်၊

tway-shi-ya-dhi — Was found; discovered; came to be observed

တွေးဆဆင်ခြင်နိုင်သော

tway-sa-sin-chin-nine-dha — Able to think and reason; capable of reflection

စွမ်းရည်အားလုံးကို

zwan-yay-a-lone-go — All faculties and abilities; every capacity (object)

ဆုံးရှုံးသွားပြီး

zone-shone-thwa-byi — Having lost completely; after losing everything

မိမိ၏

mi-mi-yi — One's own; oneself's possessive marker

မိခင်ဘာသာစကားကိုလည်း

mi-khyin-ba-tha-za-ga-go-leh — Also one's mother tongue; native language too

မေ့သွားကာ

meh-thwa-ga — Having forgotten; after forgetting completely

အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ

in-ga-leit-ba-tha — English language; the tongue of the English

ရောနှောသော

yaw-hnaw-dha — Mixed; blended; mingled together

ကြမ်းတမ်းသည့်

kyan-tan-dhi — Rough; crude; harsh in quality

မည်သူမျှ

ma-thu-mya — No one; not anyone; nobody at all

သူကိုယ်တိုင်ပင်

thu-ko-tine-bin — Even he himself; the person themselves

အသံထွက်ရန်

a-than-htwet-yan — In order to produce sound; to pronounce words

ခက်ခဲမှုကို

khet-khay-hmu-go — The difficulty or hardship; trouble (object form)

ခံစားရသည်။

khan-za-ya-dhi — Experienced; felt; suffered that difficulty

ဤသည်မှာ

i-dhi-hma — This is; this here refers to; as for this

ပြည်တွင်းစနစ်၏

pyi-twin-sa-nit-yi — Of the domestic system; internal system's possessive

လူသားဆန်သော

lu-tha-san-dha — Humane; human-like; showing human qualities

သက်ရောက်မှုအတွက်

thet-yawt-hmu-a-twet — For the effects or impact; regarding the consequences

ဆိုရပေမည်

so-ya-bay-meh — Must be said; one must remark or note