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Vocabulary

နှင့်

hnin — And; together with; used to connect words.

အဖွဲ့တို့မှ

a-hpwe-toh-hma — From the group or organization; plural collective marker.

ထုတ်လုပ်သည်

htote-lote-the — To produce, manufacture, or create something.

။

(full stop) — Burmese period; marks end of a sentence.

ဗားရှင်းကို

ba-shin-go — Version; refers to a specific edition of something.

မှ

hma — From; by; indicating source or origin.

ပြုလုပ်သည်

pyu-lote-the — To do, make, or perform an action.

မစ္စစ်

ma-sit — Mrs.; a title of respect for a married woman.

ရေးသားသည်

yay-zha-the — To write or compose a literary work.

အခြားသူများ

a-hkha-thu-mya — Other people; others; additional persons.

၏

e — Possessive particle; of; belonging to someone.

သရုပ်ဖော်ပုံများဖြင့်

tha-yote-pho-pone-mya-hpyin — With illustrations or descriptive pictures included.

နိဒါန်း

ni-dan — Introduction or preface to a book or text.

ဤ

i — This; demonstrative pronoun for nearby reference.

ဇာတ်လမ်းလေးကို

zat-lan-lay-go — This little story; object marker attached.

ပြင်သစ်ဘာသာမှ

pyin-the-ba-tha-hma — From the French language; translated from French.

ကျွန်မ

kya-ma — I; me; first-person pronoun used by women.

ဘာသာပြန်ဆိုထားသည်

ba-tha-pyan-so-hta-the — Has been translated into another language.

ကလေးများသည်

ka-lay-mya-the — Children; young ones; subject marker attached.

ကျွန်မကဲ့သို့ပင်

kya-ma-ke-tho-pin — Just like me; similar to myself exactly.

ဇာတ်လမ်းကို

zat-lan-go — The story; narrative; object marker attached.

နှစ်သက်မြတ်နိုးပြီး

hnit-thet-myat-no-pyi — Loving and appreciating something dearly; fond of.

လှပသည်ဟု

hla-ba-the-hu — That it is beautiful; quoting a statement.

ထင်မြင်ကြလျှင်

htin-myin-kya-hlyhin — If they think or believe something to be so.

သူတို့အတွက်

thu-toh-a-twet — For them; on their behalf; for their sake.

ရေးနိုင်သည့်

yay-nine-the — Which can be written; capable of writing.

မည်သည့်

ma-the — Whatever; whichever; any kind of thing.

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; object; matter; item of any kind.

ထက်မဆို

htet-ma-so — Rather than; instead of anything else.

ဇာတ်လမ်းကိုသာ

zat-lan-go-tha — Only the story; exclusively choosing this narrative.

ရွေးချယ်ခဲ့သည်ကို

yway-chyay-khe-the-go — The fact of having chosen or selected something.

သူတို့

thu-toh — They; them; third-person plural pronoun.

တောင်တမ်း

taung-tan — To request, appeal, or ask earnestly for something.

မည်

ma — Will; future tense marker in Burmese grammar.

မဟုတ်ပေ

ma-hote-pay — Is not; negation emphasizing something is untrue.

ကျမ်းငယ်လေး

kyan-ngay-lay — A small book; a little volume or booklet.

နိဒါန်းတွင်

ni-dan-twin — In the introduction; within the preface section.

ဤသို့

i-tho — In this way; like this; thus stated.

ဆိုသည်

so-the — Says; states; expresses a quoted remark.

၊

(comma) — Burmese comma; separates clauses within a sentence.

ဇာတ်လမ်း

zat-lan — Story; narrative; plot of a tale.

စိတ်ကူးယဉ်သော

set-ku-yin-tho — Imaginative; fanciful; relating to fantasy or imagination.

သဘောသဘာဝကို

tha-baw-tha-ba-go — The nature or character of something; its essence.

ထည့်မတွက်ဘဲ

htay-ma-twet-be — Without counting or considering something; disregarding it.

ဇာတ်လမ်းသည်

zat-lan-the — The story; subject marker on narrative noun.

တကယ်တော့

ta-kye-daw — Actually; in reality; as a matter of fact.

သဘာဝသမိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ

tha-ba-wa-tha-myin-syne-ya — Relating to natural history; about nature's historical study.

သင်ခန်းစာလေး

thin-kan-za-lay — A small lesson; a little educational teaching.

တစ်ခုမျှသာ

ta-khu-mya-tha — Only one; merely a single thing or item.

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit-the — Is; to be; indicates existence or identity.

ဟုလည်းကောင်း

hu-le-kaung — Also saying that; additionally quoting another statement.

သိကျွမ်းသော

thi-kywan-tho — Familiar with; acquainted with; knowledgeable about something.

အင်းဆက်ပိုးမွှားများ

in-set-po-hkwa-mya — Insects; small creatures with six legs, plural.

အကျင့်အထုံးနှင့်

a-kyin-a-htone-hnin — Habits and customs; behavioral practices and traditions.

ဓလေ့ထုံးစံများ

da-lay-htone-san-mya — Customs and traditions; established conventional practices.

ပတ်သက်၍

pat-thet-ywe — Regarding; concerning; in relation to a topic.

ပြောဆိုသည့်

pyaw-so-the — Which speaks of; that mentions or describes something.

အရာများ

a-ya-mya — Things; matters; objects; plural of thing.

အားလုံး

a-lone — All; everything; every single one included.

မှန်ကန်မှုကို

hman-kan-hmu-go — Accuracy; correctness; the quality of being true.

သူမ

thu-ma — She; her; third-person singular feminine pronoun.

အာမခံမည်

a-ma-khan-ma — Will guarantee; will assure or warrant something.

ဘယ်လုံးများကို

beh-lone-mya-go — Which words; referring to specific words as objects.

တီထွင်ပြီး

ti-htwin-pyi — Having invented or created something new; innovated.

ပထမဆုံး

pa-hta-ma-zone — First; earliest; the very beginning of something.

မြင့်တက်မှု

myint-tet-hmu — Ascent; rising up; elevation or upward movement.

ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့သော

pyu-lote-khe-tho — That performed or carried out a past action.

ကျော်ကြားသည့်

kyaw-kya-the — Famous; renowned; well-known to many people.

သမီးတော်

tha-mi-daw — Royal daughter; noble daughter; esteemed young woman.

ဖြစ်ကြောင်း

phyit-kaung — That it is; indicating a reported fact or reason.

ကျွန်မတို့

kya-ma-toh — We; us; first-person plural feminine inclusive.

လူငယ်

lu-ngay — Young people; youth; young men and women.

စာဖတ်သူများနှင့်

za-phut-thu-mya-hnin — With readers; together with those who read.

ပိုမို

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

ကြွယ်ဝသော

kywi-wa-tho — Rich; abundant; full of variety or content.

အတွေ့အကြုံ

a-twe-a-kyone — Experience; personal encounter or lived knowledge.

ရှိသူများ

shi-thu-mya — Those who have; people possessing something specific.

သိရှိနိုင်ဖို့

thi-shi-nine-pho — In order to be able to know or understand.

စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်

set-win-za-phwe — Interesting; worth paying attention to; engaging subject.

ဖြစ်နိုင်သည်

phyit-nine-the — It is possible; may be; could happen.

ကျွန်မသည်

kya-ma-the — I; me; subject marker on feminine first-person.

ပြင်သစ်နိုင်ငံတွင်

pyin-the-nine-ngan-twin — In France; within the country of France.

ရှိစဉ်

shi-zin — While being there; during the time of staying.

စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

set-win-za-phwe-kaung-tho — Very interesting; highly engaging and worth knowing.

အမျိုးသမီးနှင့်

a-myo-tha-mi-hnin — With a woman; together with a female person.

တွေ့ဆုံနိုင်သောကြောင့်

twe-zone-nine-tho-kaung — Because of being able to meet someone.

ဝမ်းသာမိပြီး

wun-tha-mi-pyi — Feeling happy and glad about something occurred.

ကလေးများကို

ka-lay-mya-go — Children; the kids; object marker attached.

ချစ်မြတ်နိုးကြောင်းကိုလည်း

chit-myat-no-kaung-go-le — Also the fact of loving and cherishing children.

သိရသည်

thi-ya-the — Came to know; got to learn something.

သဘာဝပညာရှင်လေးကို

tha-ba-wa-pyin-nya-shin-lay-go — The little naturalist; a young nature scientist.

အမေရိကန်

a-me-yi-kan — American; relating to or from the United States.

ကလေးများမှ

ka-lay-mya-hma — From children; by children; source marker on kids.

ကြိုဆိုကြောင်း

kyo-so-kaung — That they welcome; expressing a warm welcome.

သိလျှင်

thi-hlyhin — If one knows; upon knowing or learning something.

ပျော်ရွှင်မည်ဟု

pyaw-shwin-ma-hu — Quoting that she will be happy or joyful.

သေချာသည်

the-cha-the — Is certain; is sure; definitely the case.

ထို့ကြောင့်

tho-kaung — Therefore; for that reason; consequently.

အံ့ဖွယ်

an-phwe — Wonderful; amazing; worthy of astonishment or wonder.

ငယ်လှသော

ngay-hla-tho — Very young; so little; remarkably small in age.

သူတို့နှင့်

thu-toh-hnin — With them; together with those people.

မိတ်ဆက်ပေးရပြီး

mite-set-pay-ya-pyi — Having introduced someone to others; made acquainted.

ချစ်ခင်မြတ်နိုးမှုဖြင့်

chit-khin-myat-no-hmu-hpyin — With love and affection; expressing warm fondness.

ဂရုစိုက်ကြရန်

ga-yu-sike-kya-yan — In order to take care; to look after carefully.

တိုက်တွန်းနိုင်သည့်အတွက်

tike-twon-nine-the-a-twet — Because of being able to encourage or urge others.

အထူး

a-htu — Special; particularly; especially notable or significant.

ပျော်ရွှင်မိသည်

pyaw-shwin-mi-the — Felt happy; experienced joy or delight personally.

အောက်တိုဘာ

owk-to-ba — October; the tenth month of the year.

ကလေးများ

ka-lay-mya — Children; kids; young boys and girls.

သိကြသော

thi-kya-tho — Who know; those who are familiar with something.

ဖခင်ဘက်မှ

pha-khin-bet-hma — From the father's side; on the paternal lineage.

ဆင်းသက်လာသူ

syin-thet-la-thu — One descended from; a person of certain ancestry.