Sense and Sensibility — Page 1

Vocabulary

မစ္စစ်

ma-si — Title for a married woman; Mrs.

သည်

thì — Topic marker particle; also present tense marker

ယခု

ya-khu — Now; at the present time

၏

ì — Possessive or genitive particle; of, 's

အိမ်ရှင်မ

ein-shin-ma — Female head of household; mistress of the house

အဖြစ်

a-phyit — As; in the role or capacity of something

တည်ထောင်

tì-htaung — To establish; to found or set up something

လိုက်ပြီး

lite-pyi — After following; subsequently; upon doing so

သူမ

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

မိခင်

mi-khin — Mother; one's female parent

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; together with (conjunction/postposition)

ယောက်မတော်

yout-ma-taw — Daughters-in-law; female relatives by marriage

များ

mya — Plural marker; many; several things or people

မှာ

hma — At; in; locative particle indicating location

ဧည့်သည်

é-thì — Guest; visitor staying at someone's home

အဆင့်

a-sin — Level; rank; standard or grade of something

သို့

thò — To; toward; directional particle indicating destination

နိမ့်ကျ

nain-kja — To decline; to fall to a lower level

သွား

thwa — To go; to move away from current location

ကြ

kja — Plural verb particle; do together collectively

သို့သော်လည်း

thò-thaw-lè — However; nevertheless; despite that, even so

ထို

htò — That; demonstrative pronoun referring to something mentioned

အနေအထား

a-né-a-hta — Situation; condition; state of affairs

တွင်

twìn — In; within; locative particle indicating place or time

က

ka — Subject marker particle; nominative case indicator

သူတို့

thu-dò — They; third-person plural pronoun

ကို

ko — Object marker; accusative or directional particle

တိတ်ဆိတ်

tate-sate — Quiet; silent; peaceful without noise

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker; which, that (attributive particle)

ယဉ်ကျေးမှု

yin-kje-hmu — Culture; civilization; refined cultural practices

ဖြင့်

phyin — With; by means of; instrumental particle

ဆက်ဆံ

sate-san — To treat; to deal with or relate to someone

ခဲ့

khè — Past tense marker; indicates completed past action

ခင်ပွန်း

khin-bun — Husband; a woman's male spouse

မူ

mu — As for; contrastive topic particle emphasizing subject

မိမိ

mi-mi — Oneself; reflexive pronoun referring to the subject

ကိုယ်တိုင်

ko-dine — Personally; by oneself; one's own self

ဇနီး

za-ni — Wife; a man's female spouse

သား

tha — Son; a male child of one's parents

မှ

hma — From; out of; ablative or source particle

လွဲ

lwè — Except; other than; to miss or deviate

၍

yway — Therefore; and so; connective particle linking clauses

အခြား

a-hka — Other; another; different from the one mentioned

သူများ

thu-mya — Other people; others; those people generally

ရော

yaw — Also; as well; inclusive particle combining items

တတ်နိုင်

tat-nine — To be able; to afford; to have capability

သမျှ

tha-mja — All; as much as; everything or everyone possible

ကြင်နာမှု

kjin-na-hmu — Affection; tenderness; caring kindness toward others

သူ

thu — He; she; third-person singular pronoun

အား

a — Dative particle; to, for; also strength or power

မိမိတို့

mi-mi-dò — Ourselves; first-person reflexive plural pronoun

အိမ်

ein — House; home; dwelling place

ဟု

hu — Quotative particle; said that; according to

မှတ်ယူ

hmut-yu — To consider; to regard as; to take note

ရန်

yan — In order to; for the purpose of doing something

တကယ်ပင်

ta-kjè-pin — Truly; indeed; really and genuinely so

တောင်းဆို

taung-so — To demand; to request formally or insistently

အတွက်

a-twet — For; for the sake of; on behalf of

အနီးနား

a-ni-na — Nearby; in the vicinity; close surroundings

ရှိ

shi — To exist; to have; to be present somewhere

တစ်လုံး

ta-lone — One unit; one whole thing (classifier for words/buildings)

ရှာဖွေ

sha-phwè — To search; to look for something carefully

နိုင်

nine — Can; to be able to; capability modal verb

အထိ

a-hti — Until; up to; as far as a point

နေရာ

né-ya — Place; location; spot or position somewhere

ဆက်နေ

sate-né — To continue staying; to remain living somewhere

ထက်

htet — Than; more than; comparative particle for comparison

ပို

po — More; to a greater degree; comparative adverb

ကောင်း

kaung — Good; fine; well; of positive quality

အစီအစဉ်

a-si-a-sin — Plan; arrangement; organized scheme or program

တစ်ခု

ta-khu — One thing; a single unit or item

မျှ

mja — Only; just; as much as; equalizing particle

ထင်မမြင်

htin-ma-mjin — Unexpected; unforeseen; not anticipated at all

ကြောင့်

kjàung — Because of; due to; causal postposition

ဖိတ်ကြား

phate-kja — To invite; to extend a formal invitation to someone

မှု

hmu — Nominalizer suffix creating abstract nouns from verbs

လက်ခံ

let-khan — To accept; to receive; to welcome something offered

လိုက်

lite — To follow; directional or completive verbal particle

ယခင်က

ya-khin-ka — Previously; formerly; in the past before now

ပျော်ရွှင်ဖွယ်

pyaw-shwin-phwè — Enjoyable; pleasant; likely to cause happiness

ဖြစ်ခဲ့

phyit-khè — Was; happened; came to be in the past

အရာများ

a-ya-mya — Things; objects; various matters or affairs

သတိပေးမှု

tha-ti-pé-hmu — Warning; reminder; act of alerting someone

ပြည့်နှက်

pyè-hnate — Full of; filled with; saturated or brimming over

နေ

né — To live; to stay; continuous aspect marker

ဆက်လက်

sate-let — To continue; to proceed further with something

နေထိုင်

né-htine — To reside; to live in a place habitually

ရ

ya — To get; to obtain; potential or resultative particle

ခြင်း

kjin — Nominalizer suffix turning verbs into abstract nouns

စိတ်

sate — Mind; heart; feelings; mental state or intention

တိကျ

ti-kja — Exact; precise; accurate in detail

စွာ

swa — Adverbializer; in a manner of; -ly suffix

ကိုက်ညီ

kite-nyi — To match; to fit; to correspond or agree with

အရာ

a-ya — Thing; matter; object; an item or affair

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be; to become; to happen or occur

ပျော်ရွှင်မှု

pyaw-shwin-hmu — Happiness; joy; state of being joyful

ရာသီ

ya-thi — Season; period of the year; menstrual cycle

မို

mo — Isn't it; sentence-final particle seeking confirmation

ပျော်ရွှင်

pyaw-shwin — To be happy; to be joyful or cheerful

မည့်

mì — Future tense marker; will; going to do

စိတ်ဓာတ်

sate-dat — Spirit; morale; mental disposition or attitude

မရှိ

ma-shi — There is not; does not exist; absence of something

ဘဲ

bè — Without; not doing; negative adverbial connector

မျှော်လင့်ချက်

mjaw-lin-chate — Hope; expectation; something anticipated for the future

ဟူသည်

hu-thì — Is called; is defined as; definitional particle

ဆို

so — To say; to mean; quotative or definitional verb

ယုံကြည်ချက်

youn-kji-chate — Belief; conviction; strongly held personal faith

အတိုင်း

a-dine — According to; as per; in accordance with something

ပိုင်ဆိုင်

pine-sine — To own; to possess; to have ownership of

လည်း

lè — Also; too; even; additive or contrastive particle

ပေ

pè — Emphatic or evidential sentence-final particle

သို့သော်

thò-thaw — However; but; on the other hand though

ဝမ်းနည်းမှု

wun-nyi-hmu — Sadness; sorrow; state of being grieved

စိတ်ကူးအိပ်မက်

sate-ku-ate-met — Dream; daydream; wishful fantasy or imagination

နည်းတူ

nyi-du — Similarly; in the same way; likewise

လွှဲ

hlwè — To transfer; to shift; to hand over to someone

တတ်

tat — To know how to; habitual action marker; tend to

ပြီး

pyi — After; already; completion particle for actions

မသန့်ရှင်းမှု

ma-than-shin-hmu — Impurity; uncleanliness; state of being unclean

ကင်းဝေး

kjin-wé — To be free from; far away from; devoid of

သကဲ့သို့

tha-gè-thò — As if; just like; in the same manner as

ပင်ပန်းနှစ်သိမ့်မှု

pin-pan-hnit-thein-hmu — Consolation for weariness; comfort after fatigue

ထံ

htan — To; toward a person; near someone (dative for people)

ဝေးကွာ

wé-kwa — Far away; distant; separated by great distance

လျက်

lyet — While; simultaneous action particle; in the process of

ညီမ

nyi-ma — Younger sister; a female younger sibling

ပြုလုပ်

pyu-lote — To do; to perform; to carry out an action

ရည်ရွယ်

yi-ywè — To intend; to aim for; to have purpose

လုံးဝ

lone-wa — Completely; absolutely; entirely; at all (with negatives)

မသဘောတူ

ma-tha-baw-du — To disagree; to not consent or approve

ချစ်ရ

chit-ya — Lovable; dear; worthy of affection and love

ကလေးငယ်

ka-lé-ngè — Young child; small infant or little kid

ဥစ္စာဓန

ut-sa-da-na — Wealth; property; material possessions and assets

ပေါင်

paung — Pound (currency or weight); also thigh/leg

သုံးထောင်

thoun-htaung — Three thousand; the number 3,000

ထုတ်ယူ

htote-yu — To take out; to extract; to withdraw something

သူ့

thu — His; her; possessive form of third-person pronoun

အလွန်

a-lwun — Very; extremely; exceedingly; beyond normal degree

ကြောက်မက်ဖွယ်

kjout-met-phwè — Terrible; dreadful; causing fear or horror

ဆင်းရဲ

sin-yè — Poor; impoverished; in a state of poverty

ချိတ်ကပ်

chate-kat — To attach; to connect; to link closely together

စေ

sé — Causative particle; to make or cause someone to do

မည်

mì — Future tense marker; will; shall do something

ကိစ္စ

kit-sa — Matter; affair; issue; a concern or business

အပေါ်

a-baw — On; above; regarding; on top of something

ထပ်မံ

htat-man — Again; once more; additionally; repeating an action

စဉ်းစား

sin-sa — To think; to consider; to deliberate about something

တောင်းလျှောက်

taung-shjout — To apply; to make a formal request or petition

သားသမီး

tha-tha-mi — Children; sons and daughters collectively

ထို့အပြင်

htò-a-pyin — Furthermore; in addition to that; besides

တစ်ဦးတည်း

ta-u-dì — Alone; by oneself; a single person only

ပင်

pin — Even; indeed; emphatic particle for emphasis

ကြီးမား

kji-ma — Great; large; significant; of considerable size or importance

ငွေ

ngwé — Money; silver; currency used for transactions

ပမာဏ

pa-ma-na — Amount; quantity; measure of something

ဆုတ်ယူ

sote-yu — To withdraw; to take back; to retract something

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; self; oneself; first-person informal pronoun

မည်သို့

mì-thò — How; in what way; by what means

ဖြေကြား

phyè-kja — To answer; to respond; to reply to a question

နည်း

nyi — Method; way; how; few or little in quantity