The Adventures of Pinocchio — Page 2

Vocabulary

မျက်စိများပြီးနောက်၊

myet si mya pyi naut — After making the eyes (sequential marker)

သည်

thì — Topic or subject marker particle in Burmese grammar

နှာခေါင်းကို

hna gaung go — The nose (object marker attached)

လုပ်ခဲ့သည်၊

loat khe thì — Did; made; performed (past tense verb)

ထိုနှာခေါင်းသည်

hto hna gaung thì — That nose (topic marker); referring to a specific nose

ပြီးဆုံးသည်နှင့်

pyi zone thì hnin — As soon as it was finished; upon completion

တစ်ပြိုင်နက်

tit pyaing net — Simultaneously; at the same moment; all at once

ဆန့်ထွက်လာစတင်ခဲ့သည်။

san thoat la sa tin khe thì — Began to stretch out and extend forward

၎င်းသည်

din thì — It; that one (formal third-person pronoun, topic marker)

ဆန့်၍

san yway — Stretching; extending (connective participle form)

ဆန့်လာသည်မှာ

san la thì hma — As it kept stretching; the fact of it elongating

အလွန်ရှည်လျားလာသဖြင့်

a lwan shay lya la tha phyin — Because it became extremely long; grew very lengthy

အဆုံးမရှိသကဲ့သို့

a zone ma shi tha keh thoe — As if there were no end to it; seemingly endless

ဖြစ်နေသည်။

phyit ne thì — Is happening; continues to be; remains in a state

ဖြတ်၍

phyat yway — Cutting; trimming (connective participle form)

နေသော်လည်း

ne thaw leh — Even though (he) kept doing; despite continuing to cut

ဖြတ်လေလေ

phyat le le — The more he cut; each time he cut (correlative pattern)

ပိုရှည်လျားလေလေ

po shay lya le le — The longer it became; increasingly more elongated

စိတ်ပျက်အားလျော့ကာ

seit pyet ah jaw ga — Feeling discouraged and disheartened; losing motivation

သူသည်

thu thì — He; she (topic marker); referring to the subject

ထိုနှာခေါင်းကို

hto hna gaung go — That nose (object marker); referring to the specific nose

ထားလိုက်တော့သည်။

hta lout taw thì — Left it alone; gave up and let it be

ထို့နောက်

hto naut — After that; then; next in sequence

ပါးစပ်ကို

pa zat go — The mouth (object marker attached to noun)

လုပ်ခဲ့သည်။

loat khe thì — Made; created; did (past tense verb, sentence final)

ထိုပါးစပ်သည်

hto pa zat thì — That mouth (topic marker); referring to the carved mouth

ရယ်မောကာ

yeh maw ga — Laughing; while laughing (connective participle)

သူ့ကို

thu go — Him; at him (object marker on third-person pronoun)

ပြောင်ချောက်စတင်ခဲ့သည်။

pyaung chauk sa tin khe thì — Began to mock and tease him; started ridiculing

"ရယ်မနေနဲ့!"

"yeh ma ne neh!" — Stop laughing! (imperative command, direct speech)

ဟု

htu — Quotation particle; said; thus (marks direct speech)

ဒေါသတကြီး

daw tha ga ji — With great anger; furiously; in a rage

ပြောခဲ့သည်၊

pyaw khe thì — Said; spoke (past tense, with comma continuation)

သို့သော်

thoe thaw — However; but; nevertheless (contrast conjunction)

နံရံကို

nan yan go — To the wall; at the wall (object marker attached)

ပြောသကဲ့သို့ပင်

pyaw tha keh thoe pin — Just as if talking to a wall; equally ineffective

အကျိုးမရှိဘဲ

a kyoe ma shi beh — Without effect; uselessly; to no avail

"ရယ်မနေနဲ့၊

"yeh ma ne neh," — Stop laughing (repeated command, direct speech, comma)

ငါပြောနေတာ!"

nga pyaw ne da!" — I'm telling you! (emphatic first-person declaration)

မိုးကြိုးသံကဲ့သို့သော

moe gyo than keh thoe thaw — Like the sound of thunder; thunderous (simile adjective)

အသံဖြင့်

a than phyin — With a voice; using a sound (instrumental particle)

အော်ဟစ်ခဲ့သည်။

aw hit khe thì — Shouted; yelled; cried out loudly (past tense)

ပါးစပ်သည်

pa zat thì — The mouth (topic marker); referring to the puppet's mouth

ရယ်မောခြင်း

yeh maw chin — Laughing; the act of laughter (nominalized verb)

ရပ်တန့်သွားသော်လည်း

yat tan thwa thaw leh — Although it stopped; even though laughter ceased

လျှာရှည်ရှည်ကို

sha shay shay go — A long tongue (object marker); the elongated tongue

ထိုးထုတ်ပြလိုက်သည်။

htoe thoat pya lout thì — Stuck out and showed; protruded defiantly (past tense)

အငြင်းပွားမှု

a hnin pwa hmu — Argument; dispute; quarrel; disagreement (noun)

မစတင်လိုသောကြောင့်

ma sa tin lo thaw kyaung — Because he did not want to start an argument

ဘာမျှမမြင်ဟန်

ba myah ma myin han — Pretending not to see anything; feigning ignorance

ဆောင်ကာ

saung ga — Acting as if; pretending (connective participle form)

သူ၏အလုပ်ကို

thu yay a loat go — His work; his task (possessive with object marker)

ဆက်လက်လုပ်ဆောင်ခဲ့သည်။

set let loat saung khe thì — Continued working; carried on with his task

ပါးစပ်ပြီးနောက်

pa zat pyi naut — After finishing the mouth; following the mouth's completion

မေးစေ့ကို

meh zeh go — The chin (object marker); carving the chin portion

လုပ်ခဲ့ပြီး

loat khe pyi — Having made; after completing (sequential past participle)

လည်ပင်း၊

leh bin, — Neck; the neck area (body part noun)

ပခုံး၊

pa khoung, — Shoulders; the shoulder area (body part noun)

ဗိုက်၊

bait, — Stomach; belly; abdomen (body part noun)

လက်မောင်း

let maung, — Arms; upper arms (body part noun)

နှင့်

hnin — And; with; along with (conjunction or instrumental)

လက်တို့ကို

let to go — The hands (object marker); referring to puppet's hands

လက်ချောင်းဖျားများကို

let chaung pya mya go — The fingertips; tips of the fingers (object marker)

နောက်ဆုံးအပြင်အဆင်

naut zone a pyin a sin — Final finishing touches; last details of preparation

ထည့်သွင်းတော့မည့်

hteh thoung taw meh — About to add; just about to put in (future participle)

အချိန်တွင်

a chein twin — At the time; at the moment (locative time phrase)

သူ၏ဆံပင်တုကို

thu yay san pin tu go — His wig; his false hair (possessive with object marker)

ဆွဲချနေသည်ကို

sweh cha ne thì go — Pulling down; tugging on (continuous aspect, object marker)

ခံစားလိုက်ရသည်။

khan za lout ya thì — Felt; experienced; sensed (past tense, experiential verb)

အပေါ်သို့

a paw thoe — Upward; towards above (directional phrase)

ကြည့်လိုက်သည်၊

kyi lout thì, — Looked up; glanced (past tense with comma continuation)

သူ

thu — He; she; third-person pronoun (subject)

မြင်လိုက်ရသည်မှာ

myin lout ya thì hma — What he saw; the thing he caught sight of

အဘယ်နည်း?

a beh neh? — What is it? What was it? (formal interrogative)

သူ၏အဝါရောင်

thu yay a wa yaung — His yellow-colored; his yellow (possessive color phrase)

ဆံပင်တုသည်

san pin tu thì — The wig; false hair (topic marker on noun)

အရုပ်၏လက်ထဲတွင်

a yoat yay let hteh twin — In the puppet's hand; within the doll's grasp

ရှိနေသည်။

shi ne thì — Is there; exists; is present (existential verb)

ငါ့ဆံပင်တုကို

nga san pin tu go — My wig; my false hair (first-person possessive, object)

ပြန်ပေးပါ!"

pyan pay ba!" — Give it back! Return it to me! (polite imperative)

ပြန်မပေးဘဲ

pyan ma pay beh — Without giving back; instead of returning it

၎င်းကို

din go — It; that thing (formal pronoun with object marker)

သူ၏ကိုယ်ပိုင်ခေါင်းပေါ်တွင်

thu yay ko pain gaung paw twin — On his own head; upon his very own head

ဆောင်းလိုက်ပြီး

saung lout pyi — Having put on; after wearing it (sequential participle)

ခေါင်းသည်

gaung thì — The head (topic marker); referring to Pinocchio's head

ထိုဆံပင်တုထဲ

hto san pin tu hteh — Inside that wig; within the false hair (locative)

တဝက်နှစ်မြုပ်သွားသည်။

ta wet hnit myoat thwa thì — Sank halfway in; was half-buried inside it

ထိုမမျှော်လင့်သော

hto ma myaw lin thaw — That unexpected; that unanticipated (adjective phrase)

ကောက်ကျစ်မှုကြောင့်

kaut kyit hmu kyaung — Because of the mischief; due to the cunning trick

အထက်တစ်ခါမျှ

a htet tit ga myah — Never before; not once previously (negative frequency)

မဖြစ်ဖူးသည့်အတိုင်း

ma phyit phu thì a tine — As had never happened before; unprecedented degree

အလွန်ဝမ်းနည်းနှိမ့်ချစိတ်ဖြင့်

a lwan wan neh hnate cha seit phyin — With extremely sad and humbled feelings; deeply dejected

ဖြစ်သွားခဲ့သည်။

phyit thwa khe thì — Became; ended up in that state (past resultative verb)

မင်းဆိုးသောကောင်!"

min zo thaw kaung!" — You wicked wretch! You naughty scoundrel! (exclamation)

အော်ဟစ်ငိုကြွေးလိုက်သည်။

aw hit ngo kweh lout thì — Shouted and cried out in anguish; wailed loudly