Romeo and Juliet — Page 2

Vocabulary

ငါ

nga — First person pronoun: I, me (informal)

ရပ်နိုင်

yat naing — To be able to stop or halt

သမျှ

thamya — All, every, whatever amount or kind

ကာလ

ka la — Period of time, era, duration

ပတ်လုံး

pat lone — Throughout, all around, the whole of

သူတို့

thu doh — Third person plural pronoun: they, them

ငါ့ကို

nga go — Me, to me (informal first person object)

ခံစား

khan zar — To feel, experience, or endure an emotion

ကြ

kya — Plural or collective verb particle for groups

ရ

ya — To get, obtain, or be able to

မည်

myi — Future tense particle: will, shall (formal)

သည်

thi — Present tense or topic-marking grammatical particle

လှပ

hla ba — Beautiful, attractive, lovely in appearance

သော

thaw — Relative clause particle: that, which, who

သား

tha — Son; also a softening sentence-final particle

သမီး

tha mi — Daughter, female child of a parent

တစ်ယောက်

tit yout — One person, a single individual

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, become, happen, or occur

ကြောင်း

kyaung — That, because; nominalizing or causal particle

လူ

lu — Person, human being, people

သိ

thi — To know, be aware of, understand

များ

mya — Many, plural marker; more, a lot

မင်း

min — You (informal/familiar); also king or lord

ငါး

nga — Fish; also the number five

မဟုတ်

ma hout — Is not, are not, negation of 'to be'

တာ

ta — Nominalizing particle; the act of doing

ကောင်း

kaung — Good, well, fine, excellent

ပါ

pa — Polite sentence particle; also to come along

ဆို

hso — To say, state, mean; quotative marker

လျှင်

hlyin — If, when; conditional grammatical particle

ဆင်းရဲ

hsin ye — Poor, impoverished, in poverty

သာ

tha — Only, just; emphasis or restriction particle

သင်၏

thin yi — Your, yours (formal possessive second person)

လက်နက်

let net — Weapon, arms, armament

ကို

go — Object marker particle; to, towards

ဆွဲ

hswe — To pull, drag, draw toward oneself

ထုတ်

htout — To take out, extract, produce, publish

လော့

law — Imperative particle urging action: do it!

မိသားစု

mi tha zu — Family, household unit of relatives

မှ

hma — From, since; ablative or source particle

လူများ

lu mya — People, many persons, a crowd

ရောက်

yout — To arrive, reach, get to a place

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward speaker

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with (conjunction/particle)

တို့

doh — Plural marker for pronouns and nouns

ဝင်

win — To enter, go in, come inside

၏

yi — Possessive or genitive particle: of, 's

ပြီး

pyi — After, already done; completion particle

ပြီ

pyi — Completion particle: already, done, finished

ရန်

yan — In order to, for the purpose of

ပံ့ပိုး

pan poh — To support, assist, provide for someone

ဘာ

ba — What; interrogative word for things or actions

ကျော

kyaw — Back, behind; also to pass, exceed

ပြ

pya — To show, display, demonstrate to someone

ထွက်

htout — To go out, exit, come out

ပြေး

pye — To run, flee, escape quickly

လော

law — Interrogative particle expressing doubt or question

မ

ma — Negation prefix: not, don't, no

ကြောက်

kyout — To be afraid, fear, be scared of

ဘူး

bu — Negative particle: never, not at all

ဟုတ်

hout — Yes, correct, true, that's right

တယ်

te — Informal sentence-final assertion particle

ဥပဒေ

u pa day — Law, legal rule, regulation, statute

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့

kya nout doh — We, us (formal first person plural)

ဘက်

bet — Side, direction, toward; faction or party

ထား

hta — To place, keep, put, leave in place

စို့

so — Let's; cohortative particle suggesting joint action

စတင်

za tin — To start, begin, commence an action

ခွင့်

khwin — Permission, right, opportunity, leave (from work)

ပြု

pyu — To do, make, perform, carry out

ဖြတ်

phyat — To cut through, cross, pass through

သွား

thwa — To go, leave; directional away from speaker

ရင်

yin — If, when; conditional informal particle

မျက်နှာ

myet hna — Face, facial expression, countenance

ခြုံ့

khyone — To cover, wrap around, shroud oneself

ကြိုက်

kyite — To like, be fond of, prefer

သလို

tha lo — As if, like, similar to, as though

ယူဆ

yu hsa — To assume, think, consider, presume

စေ

zay — To cause, make, let, allow someone

ရဲရင့်

ye yin — Brave, courageous, bold, daring

မှု

hmu — Nominalizing suffix; matter, case, affair

အပေါ်

a pay — On top of, above, upon, regarding

မူတည်

mu ti — To depend on, be based on something

လက်မ

let ma — Inch; thumb; unit of length measurement

ကိုက်

kite — To bite, ache, match, fit together

ခံ

khan — To endure, receive, bear, undergo something

အတွက်

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

အရှက်

a shet — Shame, embarrassment, sense of disgrace

ကွဲ

kwe — To split, separate, diverge, break apart

ခင်ဗျား

kha mya — You (polite, formal second person pronoun)

သလား

tha la — Question particle: is it? are you?

ဆရာ

hsa ya — Teacher, master, expert, respectful address

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle: saying that, quote marker

ပြော

pyaw — To speak, say, tell, talk

တွင်

twin — In, at, within (locative particle)

ရှိ

shi — To exist, have, be present, there is

ကျွန်တော်

kya naw — I, me (formal first person, typically male)

သို့သော်

thoh thaw — However, but, nevertheless, yet (conjunction)

ချင်

chin — To want, desire, wish to do something

မလား

ma la — Negative question particle: won't you? isn't it?

အသင့်

a thin — Ready, prepared, in readiness to act

ကဲ့သို့

ke thoh — Like, as, similar to, resembling

ကောင်းမွန်

kaung mun — Good, excellent, virtuous, of high quality

သူ

thu — He, she, him, her (third person singular)

အမှု

a hmu — Case, matter, affair, legal case

ဆောင်ရွက်

hsaung ywet — To carry out, execute, perform, conduct

ပို

poh — More, further, additionally, even more so

ငါ့

nga — My, mine (informal first person possessive)

သခင်

tha khin — Lord, master, owner, respectful term

ဆွေမျိုး

hswe myo — Relative, kinsman, family relation

တစ်ဦး

tit u — One person (formal counter for individuals)

ဟုတ်ကဲ့

hout ke — Yes, indeed, affirmative polite response

မုသာ

mu tha — Lie, falsehood, untruth, deception

သင်တို့

thin doh — You all, plural second person (formal)

ယောက်ျားများ

yout kya mya — Men, males, male persons in plural

ခိုင်မာ

khine ma — Strong, firm, solid, stable, steadfast

ထိုး

htoh — To stab, pierce, thrust, inject

သည့်

thi — Relative particle modifying preceding noun phrase

ရိုက်ချက်

yite chet — Strike, blow, hit, impact of a punch

မေ့

meh — To forget, fail to remember something

တိုက်ခိုက်

tite khite — To attack, fight, assault, wage battle