On Liberty — Page 7

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Topic/subject marker particle in Burmese sentences

သူမ၏

thu ma ei — Her; belonging to her (possessive pronoun)

သမီး

tha mi — Daughter; one's female child

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction/preposition)

အတူ

a tu — Together; jointly; in company with someone

နိုင်ငံခြား

naing ngan cha — Foreign country; abroad; overseas

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present

တည်းခိုခန်း

tè cho khan — Hotel; lodging place; accommodation for travelers

တစ်ခု

tit khu — One (thing); a single item or unit

တွင်

twin — In; at; within (locative particle)

နေထိုင်

ne htaing — To live; to reside; to dwell somewhere

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker; indicates completed action

သို့သော်

thó thaw — However; but; nevertheless (conjunctive contrast)

ခုနှစ်

khu hnit — Year; a specific calendar year

ခင်ပွန်း

khin bun — Husband; a woman's male spouse

ကွယ်လွန်

khwe lun — To pass away; to die (formal/respectful term)

ပြီး

pyi — After; finished; completion marker in sentences

ထို့နောက်

hto nout — After that; subsequently; following that event

သူမ

thu ma — She; her (third-person feminine pronoun)

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; to; toward (accusative)

သူ၏

thu ei — His; belonging to him (masculine possessive pronoun)

ဇနီး

za ni — Wife; a man's female spouse (formal)

အဖြစ်

a pfyit — As; in the role of; becoming something

ယူ

yu — To take; to marry; to accept something

ဂုဏ်သတ္တိ

gun thatti — Character; virtues; moral qualities of a person

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; more than one thing

ပတ်သက်၍

pat thet yway — Regarding; concerning; in relation to something

အမြင်

a myin — Opinion; view; perspective on a subject

ကွဲလွဲ

khwè lwè — To differ; to diverge; to be at odds

ကြ

kya — Plural verb marker; together (group action particle)

အထိ

a hti — Until; up to; as far as (limit marker)

မိတ်ဆွေ

meit swe — Friend; companion; close acquaintance

လုံးဝ

lóun wò — Completely; entirely; absolutely; at all

ကင်းကွာ

kin kwa — To be separated from; to be free from; isolated

နေ

ne — To stay; to live; continuous action marker

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that; thus'

လူတိုင်း

lu taing — Everyone; every person; all people

သဘောတူ

tha baw tu — To agree; to consent; to be in accord

ညီငယ်

nyi ngwe — Younger brother; male sibling younger than oneself

ထဲ

hte — Inside; within; among (locative particle)

မှ

hma — From; out of; ablative/source marker particle

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — One person; a single individual

ဖြစ်သော

pfyit thaw — Who is; which is; being (relative clause marker)

ထက်မြက်

htet myat — Intelligent; sharp-minded; intellectually capable

ထူးချွန်

htu chun — Exceptional; outstanding; remarkably talented or skilled

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle; which; that; who

အမျိုးသမီး

a myo tha mi — Woman; female person; a lady

တစ်ဦး

tit u — One person (formal/polite counter for people)

ဖြစ်သော်လည်း

pfyit thaw lé — Even though (someone) is; despite being

မြင်

myin — To see; to perceive; to regard as something

သကဲ့သို့

tha khè thó — As if; just as; similar to; like

မဟုတ်

ma hout — Is not; negation of being or identity

လောက်ပါ

lout pa — Only; merely; just that much (limiting particle)

ဖော်ပြ

pfaw pya — To describe; to indicate; to show; to express

အမှတ်တရ

a hmat ta ya — Memorable; worth remembering; nostalgic memory

မရှင်းလင်းသော

ma shin lin thaw — Unclear; vague; not clearly expressed or defined

ဖြင့်

pfyin — With; by means of; using (instrumental particle)

တောက်ပ

tote pa — Bright; radiant; shining; luminous

ရောင်ခြည်

yaung chyi — Light; ray; beam of light; radiance

ပြောင်လဲ

pyaung lè — To change; to transform; to alter

နေသော

ne thaw — Who is staying; ongoing state (relative clause)

ဖြူဖပ်

pfyu pfat — Pale; pallid; lacking color in complexion

စိတ်အား

seit a — Enthusiasm; spirit; mental energy or drive

ထက်သန်

htet than — Enthusiastic; eager; passionate; zealous in spirit

ကာ

ka — While doing; simultaneous action connector particle

ဝမ်းနည်း

wun ni — To be sad; to feel sorrow; to grieve

ဟန်ဆောင်

han saung — To pretend; to feign; to act falsely

ပြသော

pya thaw — Showing; indicating (relative clause particle usage)

၏

ei — Possessive particle; of; belonging to someone

ဆန္ဒ

san da — Desire; wish; will; aspiration or intention

မေးခွန်းထုတ်

me khun hto — To question; to raise questions about something

ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

pfwè kaung thaw — Worthy of; deserving; fitting to be questioned

ကံကြမ္မာ

kan kamma — Fate; destiny; karma; one's lot in life

ပိုင်ဆိုင်

paing saing — To own; to possess; to have ownership of

အသက်ရှင်

a thet shin — To be alive; to live; to survive (exist)

သည့်

thì — Relative clause marker (modifying preceding noun)

ဖြစ်

pfyit — To be; to become; to occur; to happen

ဤ

i — This (formal/written demonstrative pronoun)

ကဲ့သို့သော

khè thó thaw — Such as; like; of the kind of

သုံးသပ်ချက်

thoun thhat chet — Analysis; critique; critical assessment or evaluation

များစွာသော

mya zwa thaw — Many; numerous; a great number of things

နိဂုံး

ni gone — Conclusion; ending; final part of something

နိုင်

naing — Can; able to; capable of doing something

သော်လည်း

thaw lé — Although; even though; despite the fact that

က

ka — Subject marker particle; agent marker in sentences

တစ်ကြိမ်

tit khyein — Once; one time; on one occasion

အန္တရာယ်

an da yay — Danger; risk; hazard; perilous situation

ယူဆ

yu hsa — To assume; to suppose; to consider as true

ပြော

pyaw — To say; to speak; to tell; to talk

မူ

mu — Topic contrast marker; as for; on the other hand

ရုံ

yone — Only; merely; just (limiting particle suffix)

မျှ

hmya — Only; as much as; equal to (emphatic particle)

မက

ma ka — More than; not only; beyond just that

အထင်ကြီး

a htin kyi — To admire; to respect; to hold in high regard

အမူအကျင့်

a mu a kyin — Behavior; manners; conduct; personal habits or demeanor

ဆက်ထပ်

set htat — To continue; to proceed further; to remarry additionally

ကြောင်း

kyaung — That (complementizer); fact that; reason that

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kjano to — We; us; our (formal first-person plural pronoun)

တွေ့ရှိ

twè shi — To find; to discover; to come across something

အခါ

a kha — When; at the time of; occasion or moment

ပိုမို

po mo — More; further; to a greater extent

သေချာသော

the chya thaw — Certain; definite; sure; clearly established

မြေပြင်

mye pyin — Ground; terrain; land surface; the earth below

သို့

thó — To; toward; in the direction of (directional)

ရောက်ရှိ

yout shi — To arrive at; to reach; to be present at

သွား

thwa — To go; to proceed; directional verb particle

မိသားစု

Family; household; group of related members

နီးနီးကပ်ကပ်

ni ni kat kat — Closely; intimately; in close proximity to someone

ထိတွေ့

hti twè — To contact; to touch; to come into contact with

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; can; resultative verb particle

အကြောင်းအရာ

a kyaung a ya — Subject matter; topic; content; matter at hand

မှာ

hma — At; in; on; locative/dative particle in sentences

လူသိများ

lu thi mya — Well-known; famous; widely recognized by people

ပြင်သစ်

pyin thi — France; French (referring to the country/people)

တော်လှန်ရေး

taw hlan yay — Revolution; uprising; revolutionary movement or struggle

ပထမ

pa hta ma — First; number one; the earliest in order

တွဲ

twè — Volume; part; section (of a book or series)

လက်ရေးမူ

let yay mu — Manuscript; handwritten original document or text

ထံ

htan — To; at the place of (someone); dative particle

ချေးငှား

chay nha — To lend; to borrow; to loan something temporarily

ထား

hta — To place; to keep; to leave (resultative aspect)

အိမ်သူ

ein thu — Housekeeper; domestic servant; person managing household

မတော်တဆ

ma taw ta hsa — Accidentally; unintentionally; by mishap or mistake

မီးရှို့

mi sho — To burn; to set on fire; to incinerate

မိ

mi — To catch; to be caught; resultative verb particle

တံခါးဝ

tan kha wò — Doorway; entrance; threshold of a door

မောင်းနှင်

maung hnin — To drive away; to expel; to chase out forcibly

ရောက်လာ

yout la — To arrive; to come and reach a destination

စကား

za ga — Word; speech; language; conversation; talk

မဆို

ma hso — Whatever; any; regardless of what it is

အောင်

aung — Successfully; until achieving; goal-completion particle

အဆက်မပြတ်

a set ma pfyat — Continuously; without interruption; incessantly; nonstop

နှစ်နာရီ

hnit na yi — Two hours; a duration of two hours

ကြာ

kya — To last; to take time; duration marker

မနေ

ma ne — Without stopping; cannot help but; persistently doing

ဖမ်း

pfan — To catch; to arrest; to capture someone

ဒေါက်တာ

dout ta — Doctor; person with a doctoral or medical degree