Pride and Prejudice — Page 1

Vocabulary

သည်

thì — Grammatical topic marker particle in Burmese sentences

တစ်နေရာတွင်

tit nay ya twìn — In one place, at a certain location

ခွင့်ပြုချက်ဖြင့်

khwìn pyù jɛʔ pjɪʔ — With permission or authorization granted

ချစ်ခြင်း

chit jɪ̀ — Love, affection, or fondness toward someone

နှင့်

hnɪʔ — And, with; conjunction linking words or phrases

ကိုယ်ရေးကိုယ်တာ

ko yay ko ta — Personal, private, relating to oneself individually

တို့အကြား

to̰ a kjá — Among us, between them or multiple parties

နက်နဲပြီး

nɛʔ nɛ̀ pjí — Deep and profound, then also complex

တရားမျှတသော

ta yá mjà ta θò — Fair, just, and equitable in nature

ခြားနားချက်တစ်ရပ်ကို

chá ná chɛʔ tit yaʔ go̰ — A certain distinction or difference, object marker

ဖော်ပြထားသည်

pʰò pjà htá θì — Has expressed, described, or demonstrated something

ဤ

ì — This; formal demonstrative pronoun in written Burmese

ခြားနားချက်

chá ná chɛʔ — Difference, distinction, or contrast between things

လူများ

lù mjá — People, many persons, human beings generally

အမျိုးသမီးများ

a mjó θa mí mjá — Women, females; plural form of woman

အပေါ်

a pɔ̀ — On, above, toward; positional or relational particle

သာမက

θa ma̰ ga̰ — Not only, besides; used to extend a statement

စာအုပ်များ

sà ouʔ mjá — Books; plural form of the word book

အပေါ်တွင်

a pɔ̀ twìn — On top of, regarding, concerning something specified

လည်း

lɛ̀ — Also, too, as well; additive particle in Burmese

သက်ဆိုင်

θɛʔ sʰàin — To relate to, concern, or be relevant to

သည်။

thì — Sentence-final topic marker ending a statement

ချစ်ခင်မှု

chit khɪ̀ hmṵ — Affection, fondness, warm feeling toward someone

၏

ì — Possessive particle meaning 'of' or belonging to

ရည်မှန်းချက်

yè hmàn chɛʔ — Goal, aim, or aspiration one hopes to achieve

ဖြစ်သည့်

pjɪʔ θɪ̀ — Which is, that is; relative clause connector

သိပ်မများလှသော

θeiʔ ma mjá l̥a θò — Not very many, relatively few in number

စာရေးဆရာများ

sà yay sʰa ya mjá — Writers, authors; plural form of writer

ကိစ္စ

keɪʔ sa̰ — Matter, issue, affair, or case to address

တွင်မူ

twìn mù — But in, however regarding; contrastive topic marker

၎င်း

dɪ̀ɡaun — It, that; third-person pronoun in formal writing

စိတ်ဝင်စားဖွယ်ကောင်းသော

seɪʔ wɪ̀ sá pʰwɛ̀ káun θò — Interesting, worthy of attention and curiosity

ရလဒ်

ya laʔ — Result, outcome, or consequence of something

တစ်ရပ်

tit yaʔ — One, a certain; classifier for abstract matters

ကို

go̰ — Object marker particle indicating direct object

ဆောင်ကြဉ်းလာ

sʰàun kjɪ̀ la — To bring about, produce, or cause a result

သဘောတူညီချက်

θa bò tù ɲì chɛʔ — Agreement, consensus, or mutual understanding reached

အရ

a ya — According to, based on, in accordance with

ချစ်ခြင်းကို

chit jɪ̀ go̰ — Love, affection; with object marker attached

ခံရသူများ

khàn ya θù mjá — Those who receive or experience something, recipients

နှိုင်းယှဉ်လျှင်

hnáin shɪ̀ ljɪ̀ — When compared, if one compares with something

၎င်းတို့

dɪ̀ɡaun do̰ — They, them; plural third-person formal pronoun

အကောင်းဆုံး

a káun zòun — The best, finest, highest quality among all

လက်ရာများ

lɛʔ ya mjá — Works, creations, pieces of artistic output

ပတ်သက်၍

paʔ θɛʔ ywɛ́ — Regarding, concerning, in relation to something

ကွဲပြားမှု

kwɛ̀ bjá hmṵ — Difference, divergence, or variation between things

သိသိသာသာ

θì θì θá θá — Noticeably, considerably, clearly apparent to observe

ပိုများ

po̰ mjá — More numerous, greater in quantity or amount

ချစ်ခြင်း

chit jɪ̀ — Love, affection, or deep fondness for someone

မှန်ကန်ပြီး

hmàn kan pjí — Correct and accurate, then also appropriate

သင့်လျော်သော

θɪ̀ ljò θò — Suitable, appropriate, fitting for a situation

အရာ

a ya — Thing, matter, object, or something in general

ဟု

hù — Quotative particle meaning 'that' or 'saying'

ခံစားရ

khàn sá ya — To feel, experience, or sense an emotion

သောကြောင့်

θò kjàun — Because of, due to; causal connective particle

ဖြစ်သည်။

pjɪʔ θì — Is, exists; sentence-final copula verb

သို့မဟုတ်

θo̰ ma̰ houʔ — Or, otherwise; disjunctive conjunction in Burmese

ဟုခေါ်သော

hù khɔ̀ θò — Called, known as, referred to by name

အသင်းအဖွဲ့

a θɪ̀ a pʰwɛ̀ — Group, organization, club, or association of people

တွင်—

twìn — In, within; locative particle with dash pause

အတော်လေး

a tɔ̀ lé — Quite, rather, fairly; moderate degree adverb

ကြီးမားသော်လည်း

kjí má θɔ̀ lɛ̀ — Although large or great; concessive clause connector

ထူးခြားစွာ

htú chá zwà — Remarkably, distinctly, unusually in a special way

ရွေးချယ်မှု

ywé chɛ̀ hmṵ — Selection, choice, the act of choosing something

ရှိသည်—

ʃì θì — There is, exists; existential verb with pause

ဝတ္ထု

wuʔ tʰu — Novel, fiction, or literary prose narrative work

တိုင်း

táin — Every, each, all; distributive particle in Burmese

နီးပါး

ní bá — Almost, nearly, approximately close to a number

ထိပ်တန်း

tʰeiʔ tán — Top-tier, top-ranking, elite level or category

နေရာ

nay ya — Place, location, position, or spot somewhere

အတွက်

a twɛʔ — For, for the sake of, intended for someone

တောင်းဆိုသူများ

táun zò θù mjá — Claimants, those who request or demand something

ရှာဖွေ

ʃà pʰwé — To search for, look for, seek out something

တွေ့ရှိရ

twé ʃì ya — To find, discover, or encounter something sought

ဖွယ်ရှိ

pʰwɛ̀ ʃì — Likely to, probable, expected to occur soon