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Vocabulary

နှင့်

hnin — And; together with; conjunction connecting words

တွင်

twin — In; at; within; locative particle

အဖွဲ့တို့မှ

a-hpwe-toh-hma — From the group or organization; collective source

ထုတ်လုပ်သည်။

htout-loat-thì — Produces; publishes; manufactures something

လွတ်လပ်မှုအကြောင်း

lwat-lap-hmu-a-kyaung — About freedom; concerning liberty or independence

ရေးသည်

yay-thì — Writes; composed or authored something

၏

e — Possessive particle; of; belonging to someone

နိဒါန်း

ni-dan — Introduction; preface; opening section of book

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by means of; using; instrumental particle

လန်ဒန်

lan-dan — London; capital city of England

နယူးယောက်

nyu-yout — New York; major city in the United States

မဲလ်ဘုန်း

mel-boun — Melbourne; major city in Australia

ငါ့

nga — My; possessive form of first-person pronoun

စာရေးမှု

sa-yay-hmu — Writing; the act of writing something

များတွင်

mya-twin — Among; within many; plural locative phrase

အကောင်းဆုံး

a-kaung-zone — The best; superlative form of good

ဖြစ်သမျှ

hpyit-tha-myar — Whatever there is; everything that exists

ကို

go — Object marker; direct object particle in Burmese

လှုံ့ဆော်ပေးသူ

hlon-hsou-pay-thu — Inspirer; one who motivates or encourages others

တစ်စိတ်တစ်ပိုင်း

tit-seit-tit-pine — In part; partially; to some extent

ရေးသားသူ

yay-tha-thu — Author; writer; one who writes texts

ဖြစ်ကာ

hpyit-ka — Being; having become; connective verbal phrase

တရားမှန်မှု

ta-ya-hman-hmu — Righteousness; correctness; moral truth or justice

ဖြောင့်မတ်မှု

hpyaung-mat-hmu — Uprightness; integrity; moral straightforwardness

အပေါ်

a-pau — On; above; regarding; concerning something

မြင့်မြတ်သော

myint-myat-thaw — Noble; lofty; of high moral character

စိတ်ဓာတ်

seit-dat — Spirit; morale; mental attitude or disposition

ငါ့ကို

nga-go — Me; first-person object pronoun form

အားအကောင်းဆုံး

a-kaung-zone — Most strongly; with the greatest force or strength

တွန်းအားပေးခဲ့သည့်

tun-a-pay-ge-thì — Who pushed and encouraged; motivated someone strongly

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit-hswè — Friend; close companion or associate

ဇနီး

za-ni — Wife; female spouse in a marriage

ဖြစ်သူ

hpyit-thu — Who is; the person who happens to be

သူမ

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

ချီးမွမ်းမှု

chi-mwan-hmu — Praise; commendation; act of complimenting someone

သည်

thì — Topic or subject marker; present tense particle

ငါ

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

အဓိက

a-di-ka — Main; principal; most important element

ဆုလာဘ်

hsù-lab — Reward; prize; benefit received for achievement

ဖြစ်ခဲ့သည့်

hpyit-ge-thì — Which was; that has been; past tense form

ချစ်ခင်ဖွယ်ရာ

chit-chin-hpwe-ya — Lovable; endearing; worthy of love and affection

ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်ရာ

wun-nè-hpwe-ya — Lamentable; sad; worthy of sorrow or grief

အောက်မေ့ဖွယ်

out-mè-hpwe — Memorable; worth remembering; deserving of remembrance

ဤ

i — This; demonstrative pronoun referring to nearby thing

စာအုပ်

sa-oat — Book; a written or printed publication

ဆက်သ

hset-tha — Dedicate; present; offer respectfully to someone

နှစ်ပေါင်း

hnit-paung — Total years; combined number of years

များစွာ

mya-zwa — Many; a great number or quantity of

ရေးသားခဲ့

yay-tha-ge — Had written; composed in the past

သမျှ

tha-myar — All; everything; whatever amount or number

ကဲ့သို့

ge-thoh — Like; similar to; in the manner of

ပင်

pin — Indeed; even; emphatic particle in Burmese

အတူ

a-tu — Together; jointly; in company with someone

ပိုင်ဆိုင်

pine-hsine — Own; possess; have ownership of something

သို့သော်

thoh-thaw — However; but; nevertheless; contrastive conjunction

ပြန်လည်စစ်ဆေးမှု

pyan-le-sit-hsay-hmu — Review; re-examination; checking something again carefully

တန်ဖိုး

tan-hpone — Value; worth; importance of something

မဖြတ်နိုင်သော

ma-hpyat-nine-thaw — Inestimable; cannot be measured or determined

အကျိုးကျေးဇူး

a-kyo-kyay-zu — Benefit; advantage; good result from something

လုံလောက်သော

loun-lout-thaw — Sufficient; adequate; enough for the purpose

အတိုင်းအတာ

a-tine-a-ta — Measure; extent; degree of something

မရရှိခဲ့

ma-ya-shi-ge — Did not obtain; failed to receive or get

ချေ

chay — Emphatic particle indicating negation or softening

အရေးကြီးသော

a-yay-kji-thaw — Important; significant; of great consequence

အပိုင်း

a-pine — Part; section; portion of a whole

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; more than one

ပိုမို

poh-moh — More; to a greater degree or extent

သေချာစွာ

thay-cha-zwa — Carefully; thoroughly; with certainty and precision

ပြန်လည်စစ်ဆေး

pyan-le-sit-hsay — Review; re-examine; check over again carefully

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing

ဆိုင်းငံ့

hsine-ngan — Postpone; delay; put off to later time

ထားခဲ့သော်လည်း

hta-ge-thaw-le — Although had set aside; even though postponed

ယခု

ya-ku — Now; at present; at this current time

၎င်းတို့

di-doh — They; those; third-person plural pronoun

ထို

htoh — That; those; demonstrative pronoun for distant things

အခွင့်

a-hkwin — Opportunity; chance; permission to do something

ဘယ်သောအခါ

beh-thaw-a-ka — When; at what time; never (with negation)

မှ

hma — From; since; ablative or source particle

မရရှိ

ma-ya-shi — Not obtain; fail to get or receive

တော့

taw — Now; then; emphasis particle indicating conclusion

သင်္ချိုင်း

thin-chin — Cemetery; graveyard; burial ground for the dead

မြုပ်နှံ

myout-hnan — Bury; inter; place a body in ground

နေသော

nay-thaw — Who is; that is; present continuous participle

မြတ်မြောက်သော

myat-myout-thaw — Exalted; sublime; greatly esteemed or revered

တွေးခေါ်မှု

twè-hkaw-hmu — Thinking; intellectual thought; act of reasoning

ခံစားချက်

khan-za-chét — Feeling; emotion; subjective sense or experience

တစ်ဝက်

tit-wèt — Half; one half of a whole

ကိုမျှ

go-myar — Even; not even; emphatic object marker

ကမ္ဘာ

kan-ba — World; earth; the entire globe or universe

သို့

thoh — To; toward; directional particle indicating destination

ဖော်ပြနိုင်ခဲ့

hpaw-pyay-nine-ge — Was able to express or describe something

လျှင်

hlin — If; when; conditional particle in Burmese

မတုနိုင်သာ

ma-tu-nine-tha — Incomparable; unrivaled; cannot be matched by anyone

နီးပါး

ni-ba — Almost; nearly; approximately; close to being

ပညာဉာဏ်

pyin-nya-nyan — Wisdom; knowledge; intellectual ability and insight

တွန်းအား

tun-a — Impetus; driving force; motivation or stimulus

အကူအညီ

a-ku-a-nyi — Help; assistance; support given to someone

မပါဘဲ

ma-pa-bè — Without; lacking; in the absence of something

ရေးနိုင်သမျှ

yay-nine-tha-myar — Whatever could be written; all that is writable

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle in Burmese

ပို

poh — More; greater amount or degree than before

၍

ywe — Therefore; so; connective particle linking clauses

ကြီးမားသော

kji-ma-thaw — Great; large; significant in size or importance

မျှဝေသူ

myar-wè-thu — Sharer; one who shares something with others

ဖြစ်လာ

hpyit-la — Become; come to be; develop into something

နိုင်မည်

nine-mì — Will be able to; future ability modal

ခုနှစ်

ku-hnit — Year; the word for year in Burmese

မေလ

mè-la — May; the fifth month of the year

ရက်နေ့

yet-nè — Day; date; specific day of the month

မွေးဖွားခဲ့

mwè-hpwa-ge — Was born; came into existence at birth

သူ

thu — He; she; third-person singular pronoun

ကျန်းမာရေး

kjan-ma-yay — Health; physical well-being and condition

ချို့တဲ့သော

choh-tè-thaw — Weak; frail; lacking sufficient health or strength

ကလေးငယ်

ka-lay-ngè — Young child; small child; infant or toddler

တစ်ဦး

tit-u — One person; a single individual

ဖြစ်ပြီး

hpyit-pji — Being; having become; and then; connective form

သူ့

thu — His; her; possessive form of third-person pronoun

ဖခင်

hpa-chin — Father; male parent of a person

စီမံကိန်း

si-man-kain — Plan; project; organized scheme for doing something

ဆွဲထားသော

hswe-hta-thaw — Drawn up; prepared; formulated in advance

အထူး

a-htu — Special; particular; especially; out of the ordinary

ပညာရေး

pyin-nya-yay — Education; the process of learning and teaching

ကိုယ်ပိုင်

ko-pine — Own; personal; belonging to oneself

အား

a — Object marker; also means strength or energy

ဖွံ့ဖြိုး

hpwan-hpyo — Develop; grow; flourish and progress well

တိုးတက်

toh-tet — Progress; advance; improve in ability or condition

စေရန်

say-yan — In order to cause; so as to make happen

ရည်ရွယ်

yi-ywe — Intend; aim; have a purpose or objective

ထားခြင်း

hta-chin — The act of keeping; placing; setting aside

မဟုတ်

ma-hout — Not; is not; negation of being or identity