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Vocabulary

သူမသည်

thu ma thì — She (subject marker); referring to a female subject

ရိုးရာယုံကြည်ချက်များကို

yoe ya youn kyi chet mya goh — Traditional beliefs or customs (object marker)

လိုက်နာခဲ့ပြီး

lite na khè byi — Having followed or complied with something

မိမိ

mi mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun meaning one's own

၏

è — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or belonging to

ကလေးငယ်

ka lay ngeh — A small or young child; little one

သည်

thì — Subject marker particle; indicates topic of sentence

ချောင်းဆွဲ

chaung zwè — To suck or feed by suckling; breastfeed

မပေးဘဲ

ma pay bè — Without giving; not providing something

အိပ်ပျော်

ate pyaw — To fall asleep; be in deep sleep

နိုင်သည်ဟု

nine thì hù — Quoting that one is able to do something

မယူဆ

ma yoo sa — Not to think or assume; not to consider

နိုင်ခဲ့ပေ

nine khè pay — Was not able to; could not manage to

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung mun — Good, virtuous, or excellent in quality

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; meaning 'that' or 'which'

မိခင်လေး

mi khin lay — Dear little mother; affectionate term for mother

သူမ

thu ma — She; third-person female pronoun

အသစ်

a thit — New; recently made or born

မွေးဖွားသော

mway phwa thaw — Newly born; just given birth to

ရုပ်သေး

yote thay — Tiny figurine or puppet; very small figure

ကလေး

ka lay — Child; baby; young one

အဆစ်အမြစ်

a sit a myit — Joints and roots; limbs and body joints

များ

mya — Plural marker; many or multiple things

အလွန်

a lun — Extremely; very; exceedingly

သေးငယ်

thay ngeh — Tiny; very small in size

ပြီး

byi — Completed; after doing; and then

နူးညံ့

noo nyàn — Soft, tender, delicate to the touch

ကြောင့်

kyaung — Because of; due to; as a result of

ကြုံတွေ့

kyoun twè — To encounter; to come across; to experience

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker; indicates completed action

ရသည့်

ya thì — Which one gets or experiences; received

အခက်ဆုံး

a khet soun — The most difficult; hardest challenge faced

အချက်

a chet — Point; matter; key issue or aspect

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative or topic marker particle

၎င်း

di gin — It; that; third-person formal reference pronoun

ကို

goh — Object marker particle; to; toward

ဆင်ယင်

sin yin — To adorn; to dress up; to decorate

ပေးရန်

pay yan — In order to give; for the purpose of giving

မဖြစ်နိုင်

ma phyit nine — Impossible; cannot happen; not feasible

ခြင်း

chin — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into nouns

ပင်

pin — Emphatic particle meaning 'indeed' or 'even'

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thì — Is; exists; to be something

ထို့ကြောင့်

htoe kyaung — Therefore; for that reason; consequently

ငှက်

nghet — Bird; a winged creature

ပြုသည့်

pyu thì — Which does or performs; acting like

အတိုင်း

a tine — According to; in the manner of; as

မိမိကိုယ်ကို

mi mi koh goh — Oneself; reflexive phrase meaning one's own self

နှိမ့်ချ

hnin cha — To humble oneself; to lower oneself humbly

မွှေး

hmway — Fragrant; sweet-smelling; soft and downy

၍

yway — Connective particle meaning 'and so' or 'thus'

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with

ပေါ်တွင်

paw twin — On top of; upon a surface

ကြီးပြင်း

kyi pyín — To grow up; to be raised; upbringing

စေခဲ့

say khè — Caused to; made someone do something

လက်ချောင်းငယ်

let chaung ngeh — Little finger; the smallest finger on hand

ထက်

htet — More than; compared to; than (comparative)

သေးသည့်

thay thì — Which is smaller or tinier than something

လက်မောင်းငယ်

let maung ngeh — Small forearm; tiny little arm

ကြက်ဥခွံ

kyet oo khun — Eggshell; outer shell of a chicken egg

အတွင်းဖက်

a twin bhet — The inner side; interior surface

ဖြူဝင်း

phyu win — Bright white; gleaming white in color

အရေပြား

a yay pya — Skin; the outer layer of the body

ဖြင့်

hpyin — With; by means of; using something

ပြုလုပ်

pyu loot — To make; to create; to produce something

ထားသည့်

hta thì — Which has been placed or kept; stored

ဝတ်ရုံလေး

woot youn lay — A tiny little robe or garment worn

ဝတ်ဆင်

woot sin — To wear; to dress in clothing

မရဲဝံ့

ma yè wàn — To not dare; to be afraid to do

ခဲ့ပေ

khè pay — Past emphatic particle; really did or did not

ဖိနပ်

hpa nat — Shoes; footwear worn on the feet

ဖိနပ်ဖဝါး

hpa nat hpa wa — Shoe sole; the bottom part of footwear

ပြောင်းဖူး

pyaung bu — Corn; maize cob plant

အခွံတွင်း

a khun twin — Inside the shell or husk; within covering

မှ

hma — From; out of; source marker particle

ဖြတ်ထုတ်

phyat htoat — To cut out; to extract by cutting

ထားသော

hta thaw — Which has been kept or placed there

ထားပြီး

hta byi — Having placed or set aside already

ရွက်

ywet — Leaf; a single leaf of a plant

တစ်ရွက်

ta ywet — One leaf; a single leaf

က

ga — Subject or agent marker particle in sentences

ကျယ်ဝန်း

kyeh wun — Wide; broad; spacious in area

ဦးထုပ်

oo htoot — Hat; cap; headwear covering the head

တစ်ချပ်

ta chat — One flat piece; a single sheet or layer

ဖြစ်ခဲ့

phyit khè — Became; came to be; occurred in past

နှင်းရည်

hnin yay — Dew; dewdrops; moisture droplets on surfaces

ဖြူလောက်

phyu lauk — White enough; sufficiently white in color

လေ

lay — Emphatic or softening particle in sentences

ဖွဲ့ပေးသော

phwè pay thaw — Which weaves or forms; made by weaving

ပင့်ကူ

pin ku — Spider; web-spinning arachnid insect

အိပ်ရာခင်း

ate ya khin — Bedding; sleeping mat or bed cover

အတွက်

a twet — For; for the sake of; because of

ရက်ဆင်

yet sin — To weave; to knit or craft fabric

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing

ကြမ်း

kyàn — Rough; coarse; crude in texture or manner

သည်ဟု

thì hù — Quoting that something is the case

ထင်ရ

htin ya — It seems; appears to be; one thinks so

ထင်းရှူးသစ်

htin shoo thit — Pine tree; coniferous resinous wood tree

အသီး

a thi — Fruit; the fruit of a plant or tree

အခွံ

a khun — Shell; outer covering or husk of something

ကြီးမား

kyi ma — Large; great; enormous in size or importance

လောက်သော

lauk thaw — Enough; sufficient; as much as needed

ခွက်

khwet — Cup; bowl; a small container for liquids

မိဘ

mi ba — Parents; mother and father together

ဝတ်စုံ

woot soun — Outfit; a complete set of clothing worn

အားလုံး

a loun — All; everyone; everything in entirety

သုံးစွဲ

thoun zwè — To use; to make use of something

ပရိဘောဂ

pa ri baw ga — Furniture; household furnishings and equipment

ကျွမ်းကျင်

kyun kyin — Skilled; expert; proficient in a craft

လုပ်သား

loot tha — Worker; laborer; one who performs work

ထောင်ပေါင်း

htaung baung — Thousands combined; thousands in number

များစွာ

mya zwa — Many; a great number of; numerous

ထံမှ

htan hma — From someone; obtained from a person

ရရှိ

ya shi — To obtain; to receive; to acquire something

ခဲ့သည်

khè thì — Past tense completion; has done something

၎င်းတို့

di gin doe — They; those; third-person formal plural pronoun

လက်မှု

let hmoo — Handicraft; manual work done by hand

သော်လည်း

thaw leh — However; although; but on the other hand

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kyaw noe doe — We; us; first-person formal plural pronoun

အာရုံ

a youn — Attention; sense; focus or concentration

မစိုက်တတ်

ma soit tat — Unable to pay attention; fails to notice

သူများ

thu mya — Other people; those people; others

ဖြစ်ပြီး

phyit byi — Being; having become; and so being

နံရံ

nan yan — Wall; the vertical side of a room

တွင်

twin — In; at; inside a place or context

ဦးချို

oo cho — Horn; a horn-like protrusion on the head

ကဲ့သို့

kè tho — Like; similar to; in the manner of

လိပ်မိ

lait mi — Snail; small slow-moving shelled creature

သစ်ပင်

thit pin — Tree; a large woody plant

အခေါက်

a khauk — Bark; the outer covering of a tree

အောက်

auk — Below; under; beneath something

ကိုယ်ကို

koh goh — Oneself; one's own body; reflexive self reference

ဝှက်ကာ

hwet ka — Hiding; concealing oneself from others

တစ်နည်း

ta nay — One way; another method; in other words

အားဖြင့်

a hpyin — By means of; in terms of; through

ဖန်ဆင်းခြင်း

hpan sin chin — Creation; act of creating or making something

ဆိုင်သော

sain thaw — Related to; pertaining to; concerning something

တွေ့နိုင်

twè nine — Can find; able to encounter or discover

မစ္စတာ

mit sa ta — Mister; formal title for an adult male

မစ္စစ်

mit sit — Missus; formal title for a married woman

တို့မှာ

doe hma — For them; at their place; they have

အံ့ဩ

an aw — To be amazed; to marvel; feel wonder

သွားနိုင်

thwa nine — Can go; able to go somewhere

မဟုတ်ကြပေ

ma hote kya pay — They are not; it is certainly not so