The Adventures of Pinocchio — Page 3

Vocabulary

မင်းဟာ

min haa — You (referring to someone, slightly informal)

မပြီးသေးဘဲ

ma pyee thae bae — Without finishing yet; still incomplete

ဆင်းရဲ

hsin yae — Poor, impoverished, in poverty

နေတဲ့

nae deh — Who is living or staying (relative clause marker)

အဖိုးကြီး

a phoe kyee — Old man, elderly gentleman

ဖေဖေ

pheh pheh — Father, dad (familiar term)

ကို

ko — Object marker particle; toward, to

မလေးမစား

ma lae ma saa — Without respect, disrespectfully

ပြုမူ

pyu muu — To behave, to conduct oneself

ပြီး

pyee — After completing; finished, done

စ

sa — To begin, to start something

လိုက်

lite — To follow; directional complement verb

ပြန်

pyan — To return; back, again

ပြီ

pyee — Sentence-final particle indicating completion

အရမ်း

a yan — Extremely, very, excessively

ဆိုးတယ်

hso deh — Bad, terrible, awful (colloquial)

သားရေ

thar yae — Dear son (affectionate address to a boy)

ပြီးတော့

pyee daw — After that, then, moreover

သူ

thu — He, she, third-person pronoun

သည်

thì — Subject marker; present tense formal particle

မျက်ရည်

myat yay — Tears (from the eyes)

တစ်စက်

tit sate — One drop (of liquid)

သုတ်

thote — To wipe, to clean by wiping

လေသည်

lae thì — Sentence-final evidential particle (formal narrative)

ခြေထောက်

chae htauk — Foot, leg (of a person or animal)

နှင့်

hnin — And, with, together with

ခြေဖျား

chae pyaa — Tiptoe, tip of the foot

များ

myaa — Many, plural marker, more

ဆက်လက်

hset late — To continue, to carry on doing

ပြုလုပ်

pyu loat — To do, to perform, to carry out

ရ

ya — To get, to receive; can, able to

ဦးမည်

oo myi — Will (future tense marker, formal)

ဖြစ်သည်

phyit thì — Is, am, are; to be (formal)

ပြီးသည်

pyee thì — Has finished, is complete (formal)

တပြိုင်နက်

ta pyine nate — Simultaneously, at the same time

မိမိ

mi mi — One's own, oneself (reflexive pronoun)

နှာသီး

hna thee — Nose (human anatomy)

ဖျား

pyaa — Tip, end point of something

တွင်

twìn — In, at, within (location marker)

ပြင်းထန်

pyin htan — Severe, intense, violent, fierce

သော

thaw — Relative clause marker (formal, attributive)

ကန်ချက်

kan chet — A kick (single kicking action)

တစ်ချက်

tit chet — Once, one stroke, one hit

ခံ

khan — To receive, to endure, to suffer

ကိုယ်

ko — Body; self, oneself (first person)

ထိုက်တန်

htite tan — To deserve, to be worthy of

တာပဲ

ta bae — It's just that; that's all (colloquial)

စိတ်တွင်းမှ

sate twìn hmaa — From within one's heart or mind

ဆို

hso — To say, to mean; quotation marker

သူ့

thu — His, her (possessive of third person)

မဆောက်

ma hsauk — Not yet built, not constructed

မီ

mi — Before, in time, reaching up to

ဒါ

da — This, this thing (demonstrative pronoun)

ကြို

kyo — To meet, to receive; in advance

တွေး

twae — To think, to ponder, to reflect

သင့်

thìn — Should, ought to; appropriate, suitable

ခဲ့

khae — Past tense marker; previously done

အခု

a khu — Now, at this moment, currently

တော့

daw — Sentence particle marking contrast or conclusion

နောက်

nauk — Behind, after, next, later

ကျ

kya — To fall down; to decrease, to drop

၏

i — Possessive/genitive particle (formal written)

လက်မောင်း

late maun — Arm (from shoulder to wrist)

အောက်

auk — Below, under, beneath

မှ

hmaa — From, since, only (particle)

ကိုင်ဆောင်

kine hsaun — To carry, to hold and bear something

ကာ

ka — While doing; connective particle between clauses

လမ်း

lan — Road, path, way, route

လျှောက်

hlhauk — To walk, to stroll, to traverse

တတ်

tate — Can, to be able to; habitually does

အောင်

aun — In order to succeed; so that, until

သင်ကြား

thìn kyaa — To teach, to instruct, to educate

ပေးရန်

pay yan — In order to give; to provide (purpose)

ကြမ်းပြင်

kyam pyin — Floor, ground surface of a room

ပေါ်

paw — On, upon, above (location particle)

ချ

cha — To place down, to set down

ထား

htaa — To keep, to leave in place, to store

အလွန်

a lwan — Very, extremely, exceedingly

တင်းကျပ်

tin kyat — Stiff, rigid, tight, tense

နေ

nae — To live, to stay; continuative aspect marker

ကြောင့်

kyaun — Because of, due to, owing to

လှုပ်ရှား

hlote shaa — To move, to be active, to stir

နိုင်

nine — To be able, can; to win, to overcome

ခြင်း

chìn — Nominalizer suffix for verbs and adjectives

မရှိ

ma shi — Does not exist; without, lacking

လက်

late — Hand, arm (general term)

ကိုင်

kine — To hold, to grasp, to handle

ခြေ

chae — Foot, leg (lower limb)

တစ်ဖက်

tit phate — One side, the other side

ရှေ့

shay — Front, ahead, forward, in front

သို့

tho — To, toward, in the direction of

ထုတ်

htote — To take out, to produce, to extract

နည်း

ní — Method, way, technique; few, less

ပြသ

pya tha — To show, to demonstrate, to display

ပေး

pay — To give, to provide, to offer

ပျော့ပျောင်း

pyaw pyaun — Soft, flexible, gentle, pliable

လာ

la — To come; directional verb toward speaker

အခါ

a kha — Time, occasion, when (temporal marker)

ဘာသာ

ba tha — Language, religion; subject matter

အခန်း

a khan — Room, chapter, section

တဝိုက်

ta wike — Around, surrounding, in the vicinity

လုံး

loun — Whole, entire; round, spherical shape

ပြေး

pyay — To run, to flee, to sprint

လှိမ့်

hlìn — To roll, to tumble, to somersault

ဖွင့်

phwin — To open, to turn on, to unlock

ထားသော

htaa thaw — Which has been placed or kept (relative)

တံခါး

tan kha — Door, gate, entrance

ဆီ

hsi — Toward, in the direction of (particle)

ရောက်ရှိ

yauk shi — To arrive at, to reach a place

တစ်ခုန်

tit khun — One leap, one jump

တည်း

tì — Only, just; that very (emphatic particle)

ဖြင့်

phyin — With, by means of (instrumental particle)

ထွက်

htwet — To go out, to exit, to emerge

သွား

thwaa — To go; directional particle away from speaker

မြန်မြန်ဆန်ဆန်

myan myan hsan hsan — Quickly, rapidly, speedily

ပျံ

pyan — To fly, to soar through the air

သော်လည်း

thaw leh — However, although, even though

မမီ

ma mi — Unable to reach in time, too late

ခဲ့ပေ

khae pay — Did indeed (emphatic past tense particle)

အကြောင်းမှာ

a kyaun hmaa — The reason is; regarding the matter of

ခုန်ကျော်

khun kyaw — To jump over, to leap across

လွှား

hlwaa — To glide, to soar, to sweep across

လျက်

lyet — While, as, in the act of (gerund)

သစ်သား

thit thaa — Wood, timber (material)

နှစ်ဖက်

hnit phate — Both sides, two sides

ကျောက်

kyauk — Stone, rock; to stumble (also)

တောက်ခေါ်

tauk khaw — To call out loudly, to shout for

ဖိနပ်

phi nat — Shoes, footwear

စီး

si — To ride, to board (vehicle or animal)

တောင်သူ

taun thu — Farmer, peasant, agricultural worker

ကဲ့သို့

khae thoe — Like, as, similar to, resembling

ဆူညံ

hsu nyan — Noisy, loud, clamorous, uproarious

သံ

than — Sound, noise; iron, steel (dual meaning)

ပြု

pyu — To do, to make, to perform (formal)

ဖမ်းလိုက်

phan lite — To catch, to grab, to arrest suddenly

အော်ဟစ်

aw hit — To shout, to yell, to cry out

ဆဲ

hsae — To scold, to curse, to swear at

ဖြစ်

phyit — To be, to become, to happen, to occur

သို့သော်

tho thaw — However, but, nevertheless (formal)

လမ်းပေါ်

lan paw — On the road, on the street

ရှိ

shi — To exist, to have, to be present

လူ

lu — Person, human being, people

လေ

lae — Sentence-final particle (mild assertion)

နေသော

nae thaw — Who is living or residing (relative clause)

မြင်

myin — To see, to witness, to notice

အထိ

a hti — Until, up to, as far as

ရယ်မော

ye maw — To laugh, to giggle, to burst out laughing

ကြည့်ရှု

kyee shu — To watch, to observe, to look at

ရင်း

yin — While doing; from (source particle)

ရပ်တန့်

yat tan — To stop, to halt, to come to a standstill

ကြ

kya — Plural marker; together (verb particle)