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Vocabulary

သကြားကို

tha-kyar-go — Sugar (object marker); referring to sugar as direct object

သူမဘေးတွင်

thu-ma-bè-dwin — Beside her; at her side

လျှောကျစေရင်း

hlhaw-kya-zè-yin — While causing to slide down; letting fall gradually

သူမသည်

thu-ma-dhì — She (subject marker); she is the topic

စိတ်ညှိုးငယ်သော

seit-hnyo-ngè-dho — Feeling dejected, sad, or downhearted

တွေးခေါ်မှုများတွင်

twè-khaw-hmu-myar-dwin — Within thoughts; immersed in contemplations or reflections

နစ်မြုပ်နေခဲ့ပြီး

nit-myout-nè-gé-byi — Had been submerged or deeply absorbed in something

အဝေးတွင်

a-wè-dwin — In the distance; far away

တိတ်ဆိတ်သောညအချိန်တွင်

teit-seit-dho-nya-a-chain-dwin — During the quiet, silent hours of the night

လူများ

lu-myar — People; many persons

တိုးသောသံဖြင့်

to-dho-than-pyin — With a soft, lowered voice; in hushed tones

စကားပြောနေသည့်အခါ

za-gar-pyaw-nè-dhì-a-kha — When (someone is) speaking or talking

တစ်ခါတစ်ရံ

tit-kha-tit-yan — Sometimes; occasionally; from time to time

ကြားရသည့်

kyar-ya-dhì — Which is heard; that one gets to hear

နူးညံ့သောတိုးတိုးသံကြောင့်

nu-nhan-dho-to-to-than-kyaung — Because of a soft and gentle whispering sound

ထိုတွေးခေါ်မှုများမှ

hto-twè-khaw-hmu-myar-hma — From those thoughts; away from those contemplations

ဆွဲထုတ်ခံလိုက်ရသည်

swè-htout-khan-lait-ya-dhì — Was pulled out; got drawn away involuntarily

သည်

dhì — Topic or subject marker particle in Burmese grammar

အချိန်အတန်ကြာ

a-chain-a-tan-kya — For a considerable amount of time; quite a while

အလွန်အာရုံစိုက်၍

a-loon-a-yone-soit-yway — Concentrating very intensely; paying extreme close attention

နားထောင်နေလေသည်

nar-htaung-nè-lè-dhì — Was listening attentively; continued to listen carefully

ပုံမှန်အားဖြင့်

pone-hman-ar-pyin — Normally; usually; under ordinary circumstances

စကားပြောသံကို

za-gar-pyaw-than-go — The sound of speech; human talking sounds (object marker)

မနှစ်သက်တတ်ပေ

ma-hnit-thet-tat-bè — Does not usually like or enjoy; tends to dislike

၎င်းသည်

di-gin-dhì — It; that aforementioned thing or subject

သူမ၏

thu-ma-yè — Her; belonging to her (possessive form)

အာရုံခံစာများပေါ်

a-yone-khan-za-myar-baw — Upon her senses; affecting her sensory perceptions

ကြမ်းတမ်းစွာ

kyam-tam-zwa — Roughly; harshly; in a crude or brutal manner

ထိမိပြီး

hti-mi-byi — Having struck or hit; after making rough contact

မိုးကြိုးတုတစ်မျိုးကဲ့သို့

mo-kyo-tu-tit-myo-gé-dho — Like a type of artificial lightning; resembling fake thunder

ထင်ရသည်

htin-ya-dhì — Seems; appears to be; one perceives it as

သို့သော်

dho-dho — However; but; nevertheless

ဤသံများသည်

i-than-myar-dhì — These sounds; these particular noises (subject marker)

သူမ၏နားတွင်

thu-ma-yè-nar-dwin — In her ears; within her hearing

မညီညွတ်မှု

ma-nyi-nwut-hmu — Disharmony; lack of harmony or uniformity

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ

tit-sone-tit-ya — Something; anything; some sort of thing

မနှစ်မြို့ဖွယ်ရာ

ma-hnit-myo-bwè-ya — Nothing unpleasant; nothing disagreeable or objectionable

တစ်စုံတစ်ရာမျှ

tit-sone-tit-ya-hmya — Not even anything; not a single thing at all

မပါဝင်ပေ

ma-pa-win-bè — Does not include; is not contained within

လုပ်ဆောင်ရန်ထက်

lout-saung-yan-htet — Rather than doing or acting; compared to performing action

လေ့လာစောင့်ကြည့်ရန်

lè-la-zaung-kyi-yan — To observe and study; to watch and learn carefully

တွန်းအားပေးခံထားရသောကြောင့်

twun-ar-pè-khan-htar-ya-dho-kyaung — Because of being driven or compelled to do something

ဉာဏ်ရည်ဉာဏ်သွေးများသည်

nyan-yè-nyan-thwè-myar-dhì — Her intellectual faculties; her mental abilities and intelligence

နောက်ဆုံးတွင်

nout-zone-dwin — In the end; finally; at last

ဦးတည်ချက်သစ်တစ်ခု

u-nyi-chet-thit-tit-khu — A new direction; a fresh objective or purpose

ယူလာခဲ့ကြပြီး

yu-la-gé-kyi-byi — Had taken on; came to adopt a new direction

သူမကိုယ်တိုင်ပင်

thu-ma-ko-tain-bin — Even she herself; she personally without realizing

သတိမထားမိသည့်

tha-ti-ma-htar-mi-dhì — Without noticing; which one did not consciously realize

တိုးတက်မှုတစ်ရပ်

to-tet-hmu-tit-yat — A certain progress; a development or advancement

ဖြစ်ပေါ်ခဲ့သည်

phyit-paw-gé-dhì — Had occurred; came about; happened or took place

ထိုမှုန်မှောင်သော

hto-hmone-hmaung-dho — That dim and dark; that obscure and murky

တိုးတိုးညည်းသံဟု

to-to-nyì-than-hu — As a soft murmuring sound; called a faint groan

ပထမတွင်

pa-hta-ma-dwin — At first; initially; in the beginning

ထင်ခဲ့သည့်

htin-gé-dhì — Which was thought to be; previously believed to be

အရာတွင်

a-ya-dwin — In the thing; within that matter or subject

အာရုံစိုက်နားထောင်သည့်အခါ

a-yone-soit-nar-htaung-dhì-a-kha — When listening with focused attention and concentration

နားလည်နိုင်သော

nar-lè-nain-dho — Understandable; that can be comprehended or understood

စကားလုံးများကို

za-gar-lone-myar-go — Words; individual vocabulary items (object marker)

ခွဲခြားနားထောင်နိုင်ကြောင်း

khwè-kyar-nar-htaung-nain-kyaung — That one could distinguish and hear separately; discern words

တွေ့ရသောအခါ

twè-ya-dho-a-kha — When discovering or finding; upon realizing something

ဝမ်းမြောက်မှုနှင့်

woon-myout-hmu-hnin — With joy; together with a feeling of gladness

အံ့ဩမှုသည်

an-aw-hmu-dhì — The sense of wonder; amazement or astonishment (subject)

ကြီးမားလှပေသည်

kyi-mar-hla-bè-dhì — Was very great and profound; immense and remarkable

တန်ဖိုးမရှိလှပေ

tan-bo-ma-shì-hla-bè — Not very valuable; hardly worth it at all

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle meaning 'saying that' or 'as follows'

သေးငယ်သော

thè-ngè-dho — Small; tiny; little in size

ထက်မြက်သောအသံတစ်ခုက

htet-myat-dho-a-than-tit-khu-ga — A sharp, keen voice; an acute and clear-sounding voice

ဆိုသည်

so-dhì — Says; states; said (quotative verb)

ကျွန်မ၏

kyun-ma-yè — My (female first-person possessive); belonging to me

ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်နေရာကို

ko-wun-saung-nè-ya-go — The place where one is carrying a pregnancy; womb position

စွန့်ခွာလာရန်

swun-khwa-la-yan — To leave; to depart from; to abandon a place

ကုန်ကျသော

kone-kya-dho — That which was spent or expended; costing effort

အားစိုက်မှုများနှင့်

ar-soit-hmu-myar-hnin — With the efforts; together with the exertions made

ညီမျှသည့်

nyi-hmya-dhì — Equal to; equivalent; proportionate to something

တန်ဖိုးပင်

tan-bo-bin — Even the value; the worth itself; even merit

မရှိပေ

ma-shì-bè — Does not exist; there is none; completely absent

ကျွန်မပတ်ဝန်းကျင်တွင်

kyun-ma-pat-wun-kyin-dwin — In my surroundings; within my environment around me

အရာရာ

a-ya-ya — Everything; all things; every single matter

သေဆုံးနေသောကမ္ဘာသို့

thè-zone-nè-dho-ka-mba-dho — Toward a dying world; to a world that is perishing

ကျွန်မ

kyun-ma — I; me (first-person feminine pronoun)

ရောက်လာခဲ့သည်

yout-la-gé-dhì — Had arrived; came to reach this place

သိမ်ငယ်ဆုံးသောကမ္ဘာဟု

thein-ngè-zone-dho-ka-mba-hu — Called the smallest world; referred to as tiniest world

ဤကမ္ဘာသည်

i-ka-mba-dhì — This world; this particular world (subject marker)

ဤမျှ

i-hmya — This much; to this degree or extent

အေးမြနေသည်ကို

è-mya-nè-dhì-go — That it is cold and chilly; its coldness (object marker)

ကြိုတင်သိခဲ့မည်ဆိုလျှင်

kyo-tin-thi-gé-myi-so-hlyin — If had known in advance; had I known beforehand

ကျွန်မကို

kyun-ma-go — Me; myself (first-person female, object marker)

နီးပါး

ni-bar — Nearly; almost; close to a certain degree

ဖျက်ဆီးလိုက်မည့်

hpyet-si-lait-myi — That would destroy; which would have ruined completely

ထိုအားစိုက်မှုများကို

hto-ar-soit-hmu-myar-go — Those efforts; those exertions (object marker)

မပြုမူခဲ့ပေ

ma-pyu-mu-gé-bè — Would not have undertaken; would not have done

မိုးမျက်နှာကို

mo-myet-hna-go — The face of the sky; the open sky (object marker)

ဖောက်ထွင်းကာ

hpout-htwin-ka — Piercing through; breaking through after penetrating

ကျဉ်းမြောင်းသောအိမ်ကို

kyin-myaung-dho-ein-go — The narrow cramped house; that confined dwelling (object)

မစွန့်ခွာခဲ့ပေ

ma-swun-khwa-gé-bè — Would not have left; would not have departed from

သည်းခံပါ

thin-khan-ba — Please be patient; bear with it; endure please

အခြားသောအသံတစ်ခုက

a-hkhar-dho-a-than-tit-khu-ga — Another voice; a different sound (subject marker)

တုံ့ပြန်လေသည်

tone-pyan-lè-dhì — Responded; replied; gave a response in return

ထိုအသံသည်

hto-a-than-dhì — That voice; that sound (subject marker)

အနည်းငယ်

a-ni-ngè — A little; slightly; a small amount

တိုးညံ့သော်လည်း

to-nhan-dho-lè — Although softer; even though quieter in tone

အခြားသောအသံနှင့်

a-hkhar-dho-a-than-hnin — With the other voice; compared to the other sound

အလွန်ဆင်တူသည်

a-loon-sin-tu-dhì — Very similar; closely resembling the other voice

ရှေ့ဆွေ

shè-swè — Forerunner; predecessor; one who came before

မင်းက

min-ga — You (familiar); used to address someone informally

ဆင်ခြေပေါင်း

sin-kye-baung — Excuses; pretexts; number of justifications given

အနည်းငယ်မျှသာ

a-ni-ngè-hmya-tha — Only a few; just a small number; merely a little

ရှိသေးသောသူပဲ

shì-thè-dho-thu-bè — One who is still new; a person with little experience

ကျွန်တော်က

kyun-daw-ga — I (male formal); I am the one (subject emphasis)

မင်းထက်

min-htet — More than you; compared to you; surpassing you

ပိုကြာကြာ

po-kya-kya — Longer; for a greater duration of time

နေထိုင်ခဲ့ပြီ

nè-htain-gé-byi — Have lived; have resided for a longer period already